Jesus – A Brief Biblical History
According to the Holy Bible, Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the Roman province of Judea, approximately 2000 years ago. His mother was Mary and according to the Gospel of Matthew, she was a virgin at the time of Jesus’ birth (Matthew 1:18). Therefore, as Mathew continues, Mary’s husband Joseph was not the biological father of Jesus. The Bible teaches that He came directly from God, “born of the Virgin Mary”; His father was God, the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1:20).
As Jesus was born into a Jewish community to Jewish parents, he was trained by leaders and rabbis of his community. As he grew to become an adult, he himself became a spiritual leader and a Jewish rabbi. He soon was delivering His own message from
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The Christian view of the Trinity states that God exists as three persons, but is one being. The Jehovah Witnesses, however, view God the Creator as separate and distinct from everyone else. God alone is The Almighty, and Jesus (in his pre-human life) was a separate being; distinct, created by God and subordinate to Him. Therefore, God is one not three.
According to the Jehovah Witnesses, the Bible teaches monotheism and “The Old Testament is strictly monotheistic.” So the idea of trinity has no foundation in “The Old Testament”. Their argument continues in that there was no change in monotheism after Jesus, because Jesus was a Jew and trained by Jewish parents so his teaching was a Jewish man promoting monotheism “a new gospel indeed, but not a new theology...” He accepted and believed in the great text of Jewish monotheism “ ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one God.’”. And also The Catholic New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) “Listen, Israel: Yahweh our God is the one, the only Yahweh.” (Deuteronomy 6:4). The word one has no plural modifier, which could only be referring to one individual. The Apostle Paul did not change the oneness of God; he wrote “God is one.” (Galatians 3:20; Corinthians 8:4-6) and countless other times in the Bible, God is referred to as