Is It A Sin To Make Yeshua YHVH?

By URI MARCUS

The Shema is the basic credo of the Jew, his first declaration of G-d's Unity and the last words to leave his mouth when he passes from this world. Now, think for a moment. If G-d had wanted to articulate in the Torah the idea that there is only ONE G-d, and that there is NO other, that there is no one who shares this unique distinction with Him... and if G-d wanted to dispel any future notion or concept or doctrine which would arise, like the Trinity, and have us consider it antithetical to the Torah, what would you need to see in the Tenach to convince you of that? What words would He use so that there would be no possibility for error? What phrase could He have selected so that there would be no chance of misunderstanding or misinterpreting of the text? What should G-d have put there so that anyone who would read the Torah, through-out time, would fully accept that there cannot be any other part of G-d who shares the essence of what He is, and that He is alone, and indivisible? Would these words convince you?

" See now that I myself am He! There is no god besides me." (Deut 32:39).

or...

"G-d is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change His mind." (Numbers 23:19).

or...

So the Trinitarians say, "Not to worry... I don't believe in three gods. I only believe in ONE G-d, but He has three different manifestations, or faces...right? Now anyone who knows a bit of Hebrew is going to have a problem with that, because what does the Exodus passage say IN HEBREW...?

"Lo YiheYay Lecha Elohim Acherim Al Panai."

The last two words there are "Al Panai," and they do not mean "Before Me" As render in the English translation. In order to say, "Before me," the text would use the word "Lifanai," or "Mi-Lifanai" as it does in at least 360 other occurrences in the Torah, Gen 6:13, and 4:16 being two examples. In fact, the phrase "Al Panai" occurs about 70 times in the Torah, but is NEVER translated in English as "Before Me," EXCEPT in these two passages Exodus 20:3 and Deut. 5:7. A classic example is found in the second verse of the Bible:

The earth was unformed and void, darkness was on upon the face of (Al Panei) the deep, and the Spirit of G-d hovered upon the face of (Al Panei) the water. Gen 1:2.

Likewise, "Before Me" in English, occurs about 14 times in the Torah, and the corresponding Hebrew Text never reads "Al Panai," EXCEPT in these two passages. What does this tell us? Somebody has an agenda in English, and they want to hide what the text is really saying! " Al Panai" literally means "On (or upon) My Face." The word for "face" in Hebrew is "Panim." "Panai" is "My Face." "Al Panai" is "Upon My Face." "Al Panei" is the non-possessive form, or just "upon the face of..."

G-d is instructing the Jewish People in the SECOND COMMANDMENT, right after the first commandment to Believe in YHVH, that they are forbidden to PLACE ANY OTHER god UPON HIS FACE. The same teaching occurs in connection with making cast "images" of other gods, and serving them. The clearest example is the golden calf. In at least two places, the Torah commands us not to serve any god who has a mask or a face upon him. The word for a mask in Hebrew is "maseycha." The gas masks, for instance, which we all donned when the missiles from Sadam were raining on Israel back in '91, are called "maseychot gaz."

Exodus 34:17 says in Hebrew, " Do not make for yourselves masked gods."

A second example is Lev 19:4, which presents the commandment in even clearer terms.

" Do not turn towards the false gods (or idols) and masked gods you shall not bring about for yourselves. I am the L-RD your G-d."

Now, go to the Internet and do a search on the definition of the "Trinity." Go to any church you like, or to any theologian or commentator. The Trinitarian Leaders are going to tell you, in describing who Yeshua is, and how He fits into the Trinitarian formula.

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Here are some samples seen on the internet:

"God is three persons. He has three faces, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.God is revealed as a Holy Trinity. Three faces - yet only one God. God, the father and Creator, Jesus, the son who died and rose again, the Holy Spirit, our guide and comforter, yet, together, one God, the only G-d.

"Creator, Redeemer, Comforter. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Three faces of God, not three gods. Three expressions of God, but still only one God. One triune God."

"The concept of the Trinity is also an important difference, not three gods but three faces of God; Father, Son and Holy Sprit".

"To speak of the three faces of God, is simply to say that there are three very important ways in which G-d has been revealed to us. The second "Mask", or face of God, is the way in which God is made known to us in Jesus of Nazareth. Do you believe that Jesus was God?” Masks? Faces?
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The only thing this Jew is going to do when he hears nonsense like all of the above, is leave skid marks. No prophet in Tanach ever remained silent on this foundational teaching. They were unwavering in their monotheism which they tirelessly preached. Over and over again, the Hebrew Bible declared with deliberate clarity that the Almighty alone is G-d, and THERE IS NO OTHER.