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09/26/2025

Taking 1 John 2:22 Seriously: Why a Real Father and a Real Son Matter
​The Apostle John gives a chilling warning in his first letter: "Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son." This passage forces me to ask a critical question: what does it truly mean to "confess the Son"?
​To avoid being on the wrong side of this text, my greatest concern must be affirming that the Son is truly the Son in the most literal way possible. Shouldn't we be more worried about whether Jesus is truly born from God than whether he is "human enough" for our theological systems?
​The most shocking truth of the Gospel isn't just that Jesus is the Messiah, but that God has a Son. This is the new revelation that changes everything.
​ # # A Meaningless Title or a Profound Truth?
​This brings us to the core issue with theologies like modern Judaism and Unitarianism. While they may use the title "Son of God," it's often treated as a metaphor. In these systems, Jesus is a human who became the Son by adoption, not by birth. This, in my opinion, is a functional denial of both the true Sonship of the Son and the true Fatherhood of the Father.
​I must have a real, begotten Son, born from God before all things. I need every part of the Bible to be true, not just useful terminology. I don't need to understand how God birthed the Son; I just need to believe that He did.
​ # # The Denial in A***nism and the Trinity
​This is also why I no longer use the term "A***n" for my own view. A***nism claims the Son is the first and highest creature, made from nothing. This is another denial of a real Father-Son relationship. If I create a robot, it is not my son. A true son must come from me.
​Ironically, the doctrine of the Trinity also denies the Father and the Son in a crucial way. If the Son is "uncreated" and "co-eternal," then the Father never actually caused Him to exist. The Father begot nothing and no one. The terms "Father" and "Son" become mere titles, not descriptions of a real, relational reality. It's a profound denial of the Fatherhood of God.
​ # # The Simple and Profound Truth: Christian Monolatry
​The early church understood this differently. Justin Martyr, for example, called the Son "another God" who is "subject to the maker of all things." He was another, a numerically different being.
​This is the simple and profound truth of Christian Monolatry:
​The Son is a divine being, a "god," precisely because of who He was born from.
​He is not the Almighty God, because the Almighty is the one who gave Him life.
​Therefore, the Son is forever subject to His Father and His God.
​This framework allows us to believe all of Scripture without contradiction. We can have a real Father who truly begot a real Son, who is both divine and subordinate, just as the Bible and the earliest Christians described.

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09/21/2025

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08/28/2025

Challenging Traditional Trinitarianism: Are Father and Son Just Titles?





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08/26/2025

What was the simple, powerful faith you first believed in? Was it a complex doctrine like the Trinity or Modalism, or was it the story of a loving Father who sent His only begotten Son to save you?

In this video, we explore the call in Hebrews 3:14​ to "hold fast to the beginning of our assurance." We examine the foundational belief in a real Father and a real, divine Son, and contrast this with other theological systems:

A***nism: Why calling the Son a "creature" isn't biblical.

Judaism & Unitarianism: How they deny the literal Fatherhood of God and Sonship of Yeshua.

Trinitarianism & Modalism: How the concept of a "co-equal" Son creates theological problems that contradict the biblical narrative of a subordinate, praying, and dependent Son.

This video makes the case for Christian Monolatry as the framework that allows us to accept all of Scripture—affirming a Son who is truly God by nature because He is from God, yet is eternally subordinate to the Father, the "only true God."

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08/20/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐮𝐬 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 "𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝"?⁣
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In any discussion about the nature of God, we are rightly drawn back to the great declarations of the Hebrew prophets. The Bible is clear: YHWH is the one true God, an everlasting King, and He alone is to be worshiped. But what makes Him the one true God? Is it that no other divine beings exist?⁣
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The prophet Jeremiah gives us a surprisingly precise and powerful answer. He doesn't just make a declaration; he provides a divine litmus test, a specific definition that was to be the final word in any debate with idolaters.⁣
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First, the declaration in 𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚𝐡 𝟏𝟎:𝟏𝟎:⁣
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"But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting king."⁣
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Then, immediately following this, God gives the people of Israel the exact argument they are to use. This is the core of the matter:⁣
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"Thus shall ye say unto them, '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.'" (Jeremiah 10:11)⁣
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This is the prophet's litmus test. The defining line between the "true God" and all other "gods" is not their existence, but their ability to 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞. YHWH is unique, supreme, and alone in His category because He is the uncaused Creator. All other divine beings—whether the idols of the nations or the angelic members of His own divine council—are on the other side of that line. They are the "gods who have not made the heavens and the earth."⁣
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This doesn't deny their existence; it defines their subordinate status. It perfectly explains how the Psalmist can show us a council of "gods" being judged by the Most High (Psalm 82), because those "gods" are not creators. They are created, accountable beings.⁣
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The passage then concludes by emphatically restating YHWH's credentials as the sole Creator, linking his power directly to his 𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦 and 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯—the very concepts that point to his mediating agent, the Son.⁣
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"He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦, and hath stretched out the heavens by his 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧." (Jeremiah 10:12)⁣
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But Where Does the Son Fit In?⁣
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This is the crucial question. If the "gods" who did not create are destined to perish, but the Son endures, doesn't that make Him the "one true God" by default? This is where we must be incredibly precise.⁣
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The Bible presents us with 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 categories of being, not two.⁣
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫: The Father, YHWH, who is the source of all things.⁣
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫: "The heavens and the earth," including the angelic "sons of God," who were made out of nothing.⁣
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐧: A unique category of one. The Son was not created out of nothing; He was 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 by an act of the Father's will, before all created time.⁣
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The litmus test of Jeremiah 10:11 applies to the created gods. It does 𝐧𝐨𝐭 apply to the Son, because He is not a creature. In fact, He is the very agent of 𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦 through whom the Father "established the world." This does not mean the Son is also the true God in the ultimate sense. Rather, it means that the Father, the one true God, 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.⁣
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The Son's role in creation does not make him a rival to the Father; it is the ultimate expression of his perfect subordination and agency. His enduring nature does not prove He is the Father, but that He is a true, descendant Son, sharing in the divine, everlasting nature of His source. He endures not as a necessity of God's being, but as the first and primary object of God's will. This maintains the perfect biblical hierarchy: a sovereign Father who is the sole Creator, His unique Son who is the agent of that creation, and the created order they brought into being together.⁣
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