DID PAUL REALLY TEACH THAT JESUS WAS GOD?

I COR. 8:6 TEACHES US THAT YESHUA IS NOT GOD

Paul, the author of I Cor. 8:6 states "yet for us there is only one God [LORD], the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord [small letters] Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live." Notice Paul makes a distinction in identity between the "only one God, the Father" and the "one Lord Jesus Christ." He separates the two identities and calls the Father "God" and Yeshua "master, ruler, preeminent one or sir."

Notice also that the word "Lord" in this passage is capitalized but it need not be. It says the same thing if it were "lord Jesus Christ."

Answer for yourself: Why is the word "lord" capitalized then?

The commentator makes his theological statement by capitalizing "lord" but this makes an unconscious connection of identity with the Father that Paul definitely did not intend to make in this passage. Yeshua is the anointed servant of God, not God the father as stated very clearly in this passage.

EPHESIANS 4:6 TEACHES US YESHUA IS NOT GOD

Again, in Ephesians 4:6, the apostle Paul states

"one God and Father of all (YHVH is the God of all and this includes him being the God of Yeshua as well), who is above all (includes Yeshua), and through all, and in you all.

Again Paul makes a clear distinction between only "one God and Father" and not two Fathers. The reason Paul says this is the understanding and foundation he had (as well as understood by the early church made up of Jewish apostles and prophets) that the Old Testament taught strict Monotheism.

Look with me at Malachi 2:10 where we find the prophet speaking:

"have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?"

That is a good question. I understand that to include Yeshua, the man who was the anointed of God. What was understood so clearly in pre-Christian Judaism, and later reinforced by Paul in the early years of the Jewish Messianic movement, has become today a religion that has lost sight of Monotheism and borders on polytheism with the teaching of the Trinity (3 persons of God). Besides that God considers such a belief that makes Yeshua "God" no less offensive than belief in Molech as "God". Such religious belief in Yeshua as God is out and out idolatry. Shalom.