The virginally conceived human Messiah. The Father's sent one.
1 Timothy 2:5 · Acts 2:36 · John 17:3
"There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."1 Timothy 2:5
Yeshua is the Messiah. The faithful Son. The man God appointed to be Lord and Christ. He is not the Father. He is not "God the Son" of post-apostolic philosophy. He is the Father's shaliach — the Sent One who carries the full weight of the One who sent him without ever becoming the One who sent him.
This is what Yeshua himself taught. This is what the apostles preached.
"There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."
"God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ."
"The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee... therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."
"Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him."
"His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; and declared to be the Son of God with power... by the resurrection from the dead."
"God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name... that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
"Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation."
"This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."
The phrase "God the Son" does not appear in the Bible. "Son of God" appears more than forty times. The two are not interchangeable. The first is a doctrinal claim of co-equal deity. The second is the messianic title given to Israel's anointed king.
The doctrine of "God the Son" — co-equal, co-eternal, of the same substance as the Father — was formalized over four centuries of post-apostolic philosophical development:
These categories — eternal generation, hypostatic union, dual nature, communicatio idiomatum — are Greek philosophical constructions. None of them appear in the apostolic writings. The apostles preached a man whom God raised. The councils preached a God who became a man. These are not the same gospel.
If Yeshua were YHWH, none of these sentences could be spoken honestly.
"This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." John 17:3
"The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do." John 5:19
"I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." John 5:30
"My Father is greater than I." John 14:28
"Of that day and that hour knoweth no man... neither the Son, but the Father." Mark 13:32
"I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." John 20:17
"Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." Mark 10:18
Yeshua had a God. The Father was greater than him. He did nothing of himself. He was sent.
Two long-form resources that work out the full case for Pillar II.
The Shaliach Principle and the Real Identity of Yeshua
The Hebrew legal category Yeshua actually lived inside. Why the apostles preached him as the Sent One, not the Sender. The framework before the creeds.
Read A Scripture CatalogScripture's Constant Differentiation Between YHWH and Yeshua
Over a hundred verses across the whole canon distinguishing the Father from the Son. The Father acts. Yeshua is acted upon. The pattern is everywhere.
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