God is Not a Man & No Man is God

To make matters "objective", God will get invoked by those who turn around make God into something subjective by disregarding the definitions of the God of the Hebrew Bible, which preclude God from dwelling inside the body of one human being in any incarnate form.

After watching Alex O'Conner's appearance on the Jubilee YouTube channel, it occurred to me what makes discussions about the Trinity so difficult: Trinitarian Pauline Christians change the definition of God and move the goalposts of the discussion.

Trinitarian Pauline Christians support the Trinity by jerrymandering the definition of God so that citations of Jesus' human limitations, Jesus' separate range of knowledge and abilities from God, Jesus' dependency on God as a being outside of himself, and Jesus' conversing with God as an entity other than himself don't disprove his divinity in the way that they do and should.

God cannot be contained.

It's one thing to have a philosophical discussion about the possibilities of God, but it's another to take a general philosophical principle like "God can do anything, he's God, gosh-darn-it" and use it to smash through established scriptures from the Hebrew Bible. King Solomon says that "the heaven and the highest heaven" cannot contain God, but Trinitarian Pauline Christians come along and assert that God can be contained inside of one person.

If the Hebrew Bible says that God wouldn't do something, then just because God could do anything hypothetically that doesn't mean that he will when he said he wouldn't. Instead of allowing the Hebrew Bible to inform their opinions, they try to force this artificial doctrine of "God can do anything" onto the Bible as if represents the contents of the texts, which it does not.

God is not a man, "Lo-Ish El--No man is God".

This passage is not only about lying, repeat it with me, "This passage is not just about God not lying, it's not just about God not changing his mind". Annoyingly, this is the tactic of the apologetical game to redirect things onto a new topic that's supposed to hypnotize in a sleigh-of-hand misdirect, and it's supposed to convince you that you're not allowed to interpret the passage as being anything other than just a way that God conveyed how he won't lie.

"I am...not a man," God declares in Hosea while not talking about lying, and ironically, Trinitarian Pauline apologists will make God into a liar as the God of the Hebrew Bible makes the impossibility of his ability to lie in Numbers dependent on a fact about himself, that is, the fact God is not a man nor a son a man. Unfortunately, they also make Jesus into a God other than, next to, on the face of, in the place of, and in the presence of the God of the Hebrew Bible.

God is not a created being.

When King Saul asks God for his decree to be rescinded, Samuel the prophet gives a similar response to the passage from the oracle of Balaam in Numbers, and Samuel declares that God is not an "Adam", that God is not human mortal nor a created being.

The Trinity debate really revolves around whether the Hebrew Bible supports the notion of a Trinity, and the debate about the Trinity is not predicated on texts like the Gospel of John. Having some bizarre contest of reading every declaration of "I am" from Jesus as a confirmation of some overt confession of godhood is of no value compared to judging Trinitarian assertions based on the contents of the Hebrew Bible.

It's not enough for Trinitarian Pauline apologists to get that stupid twinkle in their eye and say the word, "Mystery", oh it's mysterious, it's mysterious, it's so mysterious -- only not. How can you prop up revelation and then turn around and ignore the revelation? Picking and choosing passages to believe or reject is subjective, not the objectivity that is so often promised in the name of God.

Moreover, to transform the God of the Hebrew Bible into a God that changes to become human and manifests himself in three distinct entities is either to commit idolatry or strange worship according to the Hebrew Bible because "no man is god" and God is "not a man" nor "a son of man".

The argument that "God can do anything, he's God, gosh-darn-it" may have come from you or your pastor, but it didn't come from the Hebrew Bible.

To make the leap from the clear definitions and limitations of the God of the Hebrew Bible in the name of God doing anything is as reasonable as saying that God could create a square circle.

God is not a man, and no man is God.

Jesus is a man, therefore, Jesus is not the God of the Hebrew Bible.