“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world,even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God” (Psa.90:2, NKJV).  God cannot die.  God lives from “everlasting to everlasting.” This is simple enough.  Non-death is one of God’s non-negotiable attributes.  And God thunders to you, to me, and to Dr. Antion the next passage that is replete with singular pronouns referring to the one God, not two or more.  God proclaimed:

        “Now you will see that I am the one God!  There is no god but me.  I send life and death; I can hurt, and I can heal. No one can escape from me.  I raise my hand toward heaven and make this promise: As surely as I live forever, I will sharpen my flashing sword, and I will take it in my hand to judge.  I will punish my enemies and pay back those who hate me” (Deut. 32:39-41, New Century Version).  Clearly, in saying “As surely as I live forever” God himself corrects Dr. Antion.  God says he lives forever and that he is a singular God.  The fact is, if God is not obliged to live forever, if God can die, then, among other things, God will never judge or punish his enemies or pay back those who hate him.  Consequently, if Dr. Antion is correct and God can die, this passage is just bluster and an empty threat.

 

The Unknown, Mysterious Binitarian God

 

        Dr. Antion declares he is a monotheist and that there is one God, but he seems to lose his footing trying to explain his “one” God: “But there are not two Gods, God is one, there is only one God and Jesus Christ is a part of that—uhh—a part of that.  OK?” [Q: Jesus is a part of what?]  He tries again.  Dr. Antion: “There is only one God; can only be one God.  There are not two Gods.  Christianity rejects that.  We reject that.  We are a monotheist religion.  What we believe [is?] two persons can, see if you think God, God can function in two manifestations—two persons.  And if you try to understand it, you know, with our physical brains, you’re going to go around and around, because it is very—uhh—a mystery in many ways.  … Are there two Gods?  There are not.  God is manifested through the Father and the Son.  …  The Father and Jesus Christ—are they God?”  (End of sermons.)  [Dr. Antion often states that the Father and Jesus are divine.]

  è Dr. Antion’s God is a mystery God.  But the true God of the Bible is no mystery—he is knowable.  “And this is eternal life, that they may KNOW you, the only true God (Jn.17:3).  Thus, to the world I proclaim the knowable God (Acts 17: 23; Col.1:1-6; 1Thess.4:3-5; 2Thess.1:8; 1Tim.1:17; 2:3-7; Tit.1:1-4, 10-16).

Passages in the Book of John

Dr. Antion continues in his synopsis: “But, there are many other passages *they attempt to explain away.  See John 1:1-14, 18, 30; 3:13; 6:62: 8:58; 10:30; 17:5.”

*[For my response to this false assertion see page 10.]

       è All of these passages are in the book of John, so it might do well to look at them and mention a few others that are being overlooked in the synopsis (not necessarily in his tapes) by the writer.

¨John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” Obviously, John believed that there was but one true God, the same thing Jesus believed, since John is quoting Jesus.

¨John 1:1-14 The short answer here is that the Greek “logos” (as word) does not presume a preexistent deity.  The presumptive deity part of this passage is only there because certain men, notably early Catholic “fathers” and King James’ commission re-interpreted it that way, adding “he” and “him” according to a rigid trinitarian agenda in the creation of an orthodox religion.  The Tyndale New Testament of 1534, the major NT work utilized in the KJ version of the Bible, translates John’s prologue differently than trinitarian Catholic King James revised it in his 1611 version.

Tyndale’s New Testament.  “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God: and the word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by it, and without it, was made nothing, that was made.  In it was life and the life was the light of men, and the light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendedit not.  …  (14) And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw the glory [greatness] of it, as the glory of[transferred to] the only begotten son of the Father, which word was full of grace and verity” (Jn.1:1-5, 14).  The 1560 Geneva Bible is essentially the same.  (Note: William Tyndale was run down and captured by Roman Catholics.  He was strangled, tied to the stake, and burned.) (Continued...)