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Written by Eytan Ben Gideon.

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Note - In all my books and articles I use the Hebrew title Elohim for the creator and the name Yeshua for His son. Elohim has few names, which the most used one is YHWH. The English Scripture omitted this name almost totally. I explain in other books for the reasons I do not agree to translate the name of His son from Yeshua into Jesus.

I avoid using pagan names and titles as holly names. I explain my doubts regarding whatever Elohim and God are titles referring to the same one and whatever Yeshua and Jesus are name referring to the same person.

This article is regarding the issue whatever Elohim and His son Yeshua are the same one. I avoid the issue whatever God and Jesus are the same one. It is very possible that the answers to both issues may be different.

Yeshuah - Jesus is not Elohim God

Many Christians believe that Yeshua - Jesus - is Elohim - God - Himself.

It is a very common teaching among Christians that Yeshua (who they refer to as Jesus) is Elohim (who they refer to as God) Himself. According to this idea, Elohim limited himself into the form of a man so he Himself would be the sacrifice. I show that this theology is not mentioned in scripture but was developed later by Christians who were pagans.

This book deals with the issue and shows that the verses Christians use to support the above teachings are used in error.

Many of the errors are due to the fact that different Hebrew words and names are translated into the same word. For example, the Hebrew version distinguishes between two titlesEl and Elohim. Unfortunately, both are translated into the title God (actually, Elohim is an El).

The name YHWH and the title "Adon (which is master) are also both translated into the same word which is "the lord". This indeed causes a big confusion about to whom scripture refers.

We are dealing with subtle differences. Yet, the issue is that Yeshua and Elohim are two separate entities. Elohim has never died, he was never limited inside a body, and he never had to answer to authority.

In a perfect world I would never have had to deal with this issue since the claim that Yeshua is Elohim would never have arisen. As a matter of fact, many people who know that Yeshua is not Elohim do not like to talk about this issue because of the subtle differences. Therefore, the denial itself must be done with wisdom, since we are dealing with subtleties, which are easy to confuse.

The issue is raised in almost every Christian book. Christian books that deal with subjects of prophesy, family values, faith and other are using expressions such as: "Only God in the flesh was able to do the things that Jesus did" or, "Only God himself could have been the perfect sacrifice" or, "God came to us in the flesh in order..." or, "God has reduced Himself in order to".

Therefore, one cannot ignore the issue any more. The above expressions are not scriptural, and people should stop using them.

Notice that I am not denying the fact that Yeshua is an El (Isa 9:6, Rom 9:5) or the fact that he was with Elohim during the Creation (Col 1:16, Heb 1:10), but just claim that he is not Elohim Himself.

It is very important the way doctrines are being package. People teach about the works of Yeshua and about how wonderful they are - something that I agree with. The problem is that then they package it with the statement that this is a proof that he is Elohim Himself.

THIS IS NOT TRUE, since he himself promised us that we will be able to do greater works than he has done "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. And greater works than these shall he do..."(John 14:12).

For this reason, there is NOTHING that Yeshua have ever done, which can be used as a proof that he is Elohim Himself. All of Yeshua' works just prove that he was anointed by Elohim.

My main reason for dealing with this issue is not to protect Elohim or Yeshua - Not at all!!! My main reason is for the non - believers' sake. You see - Christians make so many embarrassing basic mistakes, that many non-believers (especially Jewish people) mock us for them. THIS IS A SHAME!!!

We must stop making those mistakes, and I am talking in particular about verses such as Ex 3:14, Psa 110:1, Psa 45:5 and Isa 9 which I will be talking more in this book!

We are in a spiritual war against a very subtle enemy. He has many ways to manipulate the world. He operates through human' ignorance. We must not forget that!

There is a plan with few strategies in which the satan developed this theory. Some of the steps are very easy to prove. The steps he uses are:

    1) Made an atmosphere in which it will be easy for him to introduce his own definitions and attributes. He did it by using translations to create self-serving titles for himself.

This is true by translating a few Hebrew words into the word God, and a few Hebrew words (including Elohim's names) into the word Lord. Another very important word he manipulated is the meaning of the word "Messiah". This especially affects verses such as Isa 9:6, Rom 9:5, Mat 1:23, Mat 22:24 and Psa 110:1.

    2) Translated many verses in the wrong way.

I am aware that people have problems with this concept. Out of all the strategies the satan has used, this is the most crucial one. Fortunately, this is also the easiest one to prove.

Many of the manipulations took place not only while translating from one language to another (mainly from Hebrew to Greek), but also during copying them (usually in Greek). This effects verses such as Ex 3:14, John 8:58, Heb 1:8, Psa 45:6, Titus 2:13, 1 John 5:7-8, 1 Peter 3:15 and 1 Cor 10:9.

    3) Misinterpreting many verses - People explain verses to fit them into their own Faith.

Using the first two strategies the satan brought to life his theory. Then, not surprisingly, many people took other verses and adjusted them into their own belief system. I am talking about verses such as John 1:1, Phi 2:6-11, John 10:25-38, 14:9,16: and 15:23, Isa 9:5, Mat 28:19, Gen 1:26, 3:22 and 11:7, Col 2:9 and Zac 12:10.

    4) The last step is actually blinding people to all the verses which just claim the opposite - that Yeshua is inferior to Elohim. Verses such as Mat 24:35, Mat 26:39, Mal 3:6 and Luk 2:52.
This strategy is very sophisticated and may be the most challenging for me to demonstrate.


There are a few reasons for the satan came up with this theory. I write about them in one of the following pages.

I am very sad to see so many people that not only believe that Yeshua (Jesus) is Elohim (God), but that this is a very important fact in their belief. This is a very strange fact since nowhere in scripture are we even told that believing that Yeshua is Elohim is important.

Elohim sets us apart from the world because we believe that Yeshua is the Adon, Yeshua is the Machiach and Yeshua is the son of Elohim.

At times I ask people: "O.K, lets assume that Yeshua is Elohim (or Jesus is God), why is it important?" The fact is that even if Yeshua is Elohim, scripture does not tell us that this is an important issue. So the next question will be: "if scripture does not make a big deal out of that, why people do?"

The reason I ask this question is because I have even heard Christians say that if you do not believe that Elohim changed Himself and revealed himself as a man, you are not saved.

This is nonsense because then scripture would be a lie, because according to it our beliefs are that Yeshua is the Adon (Rom 10:9), the messiah (1 John 4:2) and the son of Elohim (1 John 5:10-12) AND THAT ELOHIM RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD.

I believe that a person can become Born Again even if he believes that Yeshua is Elohim - so huge is the Grace of Elohim. My main concern is not if they are saved but what they teach. After all, their false teachings scares many people from accepting Yeshua as the Messiah.

This is because many of the verses they use to "prove" that Yeshua is Elohim are wrong translations, and by using them, we give the non-believer a way to prove that we have a false faith.

Elohim by His love to the Jews is going to be soft on those who are going to speak against Yeshua (Matt 12:31). If it was not for this, He would have condemned the Jews to death (this is still more evidence that Yeshua is not Elohim).

In the future, the false messiah is going to convince people (including the Jews) for three and a half years that he is the true one. However, the critical point is going to be when he will present himself as being Elohim Himself. At that point, it is going to be many of the Jews who are going to realize the lie.

It will be Christians who believe in any case that Elohim became a man, that are going to be deceived easily.

This should not be a surprise. After all, if one believes Yeshua to be Elohim, then what is the big deal when the one who is known to be the messiah declares that he is Elohim? I would strongly recommend that people study Matt 12:31. There is an important warning there.

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