What is the Teaching’s covenant-Husband argument?
Quick Answer
The speaker says Yahovah was Israel’s covenant Husband and that the Husband’s death was necessary to release the divorced house of Israel for restoration.
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Is Yeshua God? Does it matter?
Beginning with the Shema in Deuteronomy 6:4, this Teaching asks whether the claim that Yahovah is one excludes Yeshua from divine identity. The speaker argues that Scripture must be interpreted as a unified witness rather than allowing an isolated text or reaction to earlier doctrine to overturn other passages. He reviews objections involving Yeshua’s humanity, prayer, subordination, firstborn language, and agency; then considers the Hebrew word echad and cautions that it does not inherently establish a compound unity. He draws together Yeshua’s statements about His identity, attributes Scripture reserves for Yahovah, manifestations of the invisible God, Colossians 1, and Hebrews 1. The speaker describes Yeshua as the definitive, visible image of the invisible God, while explaining His obedience to the Father with an image-and-source analogy. He then connects Yeshua’s death to the redemption of the divorced house of Israel, explores Zechariah 12:10 and the New Testament’s direct identification of Yeshua as God, and examines biblical accounts of worship and prayer directed toward Yeshua. In the extended group discussion, participants raise alternative interpretations and questions about the Father and Son, the resurrection, authority, and exaltation. The speaker maintains that Yeshua is God while acknowledging the difficulty of explaining fully how God reveals Himself.