Is Jesus a Jew or a Christian
By Richard DellaValle
Do Christians realize that they pray to a God that denies he shares his glory with a supposed son? In Trinitarian theology, the Greek word ousia (translated as essence, substance, or nature) is the primary term describing God’s single, shared divine being. This concept is further defined by the Latin term homoousios (consubstantial), which signifies that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are of the same essence or numerically identical in their divine nature. This notion is not posited in the Hebrew Bible and is therefore a false doctrine. Jesus affirmed the authenticity, historical reliability, and divine authority of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) by treating it as the final, infallible Word of God. He frequently quoted from the Torah (Law), Prophets, and Writings, asserting that not even the smallest letter or stroke would pass from the Law until all things were accomplished (Matthew 5:18).
John 3:16 clearly states: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Trinitarians should look up the word “begotten” in a dictionary and grasp that ONLY God is uncreated. The other two branches are either begotten or proceed from the Father as described in Genesis 1:1–2, so technically, there can’t be a Holy Trinity. Logically, how can a father and son be the same person and age? The Hebrew Bible tells us that there is a Council of Gods called “sons of God” but maintains that Yahweh (also known as YHWH, Jehovah, Elohim, El Elyon, El Roi, El Olam, El Gibhor, Adonai, El Shaddai, or I Am) is the one and only true God and the Council’s leader. By the way, “ha satan” (the Hebrew word for “the adversary” or “the accuser”) is described as a member of God’s Divine Council who functions as a subordinate servant or prosecutor, not as God’s eternal enemy, as falsely declaimed by John, and is a Son of God. (Job 1:6 and 2:1) I don’t know how Christians believe that Satan is evil when the Book of Job says he works for God and only does what God authorizes him to do.
Why should we discount the divine scripture and gods of other religions such as Buddha, Brahma, Ahura Mazda, Enlil, Marduk, Re, and Odin, to name just a few, when only a third of the world’s population consists of belief in the Judean God?
There is no indication of the Hebrew God having different personas in the entire Bible: a Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I suspect deception (Pious Fraud) of the gravest nature by the designers of the New Testament, who themselves didn’t believe that Jesus was God until 300 years after his death, when clergy (at the behest of Constantine) realized that only God can forgive sins, requiring them to make a dishonest and deceptive change by “edict.” Contemporary Christians fall for this deception because of the fear forged upon them of the pains of a fictitious place called Hell!
“Worship only ME” (the Father) is a recurring theological theme repeated scores of times in the Old Testament, and God never claimed to have an actual son other than the entire population of the world. Would God lie?
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. (Isaiah 45:19) WOW! Could anything be clearer?
The dogma of the Holy Trinity highlights a real shift (many would say heresy, from monotheism to polytheism) between the earlier Apostle-driven group of believers called “The Way” and fourth-century Christian theology. Interestingly, however, according to the 2025 American Worldview Inventory conducted by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, only 16% of self-proclaimed Christians believe in the Trinity, meaning approximately 84% reject or do not affirm this core doctrine. Even within Trinitarian denominations, surveys show high rates of theological inconsistency; for instance, a 2018 study conducted by Ligonier Ministries and LifeWay Research found that 78% of evangelicals agreed with the statement that “Jesus is the first and greatest being created by God,” which contradicts traditional Trinitarian theology. To be fair, this reflects confusion about doctrine, not that 78% actually belong to or consciously endorse non-Trinitarian Christianity, but people are waking up. Colossians 1:15 states, “He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.” Every human is likewise born in the image of God, but Jesus was the first, which is what makes him special, but not God! Jesus prayed to God, so he prayed to himself?
In the Torah, God is presented as a single, indivisible being. A key statement in the Shema, the most important prayer in Judaism (Deuteronomy 6:4), emphasizes strict monotheism. There is no clear impression of God having a “son” in a literal or ontological sense, and certainly nothing of a triune structure. Even a casual reading of the Old Testament will lead you to realize how much God detests the false gods his “chosen” people tend to gravitate to.
The apostles and early followers understood Jesus as divinely inspired, you could say, as a Prophet and the Christ/Messiah. Over the first few centuries, theologians struggled to work out how to make Jesus divine to fit with monotheism. This process culminated in formal doctrines such as the Trinity being articulated at events like the Council of Nicaea. These forgers were so intent on making Jesus God that they had to include the Holy Spirit, who is never mentioned in seating arrangements in the Bible and was ignored in letters written by the Apostle Paul, who talks about the Spirit, but to Paul, the Spirit is not a separate “person” in a Trinity but an active force or presence of God in believers’ lives. Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as a helper and comforter! (John 14:26) If God were an actual Trinity, Paul, who recorded most of the theological foundations of the early Church, would have comprehended and taught this concept. Yet we find no such teaching in his writings. Paul’s standard greeting in his epistles to the churches and individuals to whom he wrote is “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” He never mentions the Holy Spirit in his greetings — an unbelievable and inexplicable oversight if the Spirit were a person or entity coequal with God the Father. The same can also be said of Peter in the salutations of his epistles. In the Book of Acts, baptism is to be conducted ONLY in the name of Jesus since the Trinity wasn’t invented yet!
I couldn’t tolerate the deception; therefore, I am no longer a Christian. (The KEY sticking point to me is WHY DIDN’T GOD SAY HE HAD A SON!!!) I remind you again of Isaiah 45:19. If you are in doubt, you should read about the people who lived alongside Jesus who actually believed Jesus’ words that the world would end within their lifetimes, but didn’t. Read the Book of Acts about the apostles and the people who knew Jesus. Read about how the Jews are God’s chosen people, and all promises to humanity occur through them. Even though God spoke directly with quite a few Gentiles, He only had seven laws for them to follow, but an additional 606 laws were laid upon Jews. The truth is, most Christians refuse to read anything they think would be derogatory to their beliefs. To me, that means they don’t truly believe 100% of the dogma they are pummeled with, but for whatever reason, stick to their guns.
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After Jesus was either crucified (gospels) or hung from a tree (Acts 5:30, 10:39, 13:29), they attended Synagogue or Temple services whose leaders would have stoned to death anyone who insinuated that Jesus was God. The Aqaba Church in Jordan is considered the world’s first purpose-built Christian building, constructed in the 290s AD. Excavated in 1998, this basilica predates the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Church of the Nativity, built in the 320s AD. And the apostasy began. I point this out because I’m assuming Jesus didn’t have Christianity, a new religion, in mind when he said: “I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church.” The Catholic Church misinterpreted the rock as Peter personally, viewing him as the foundation stone and the first pope, with authority passed to his successors.
If you believe Jesus and God are the same entity, does that mean that the Jewish people are no longer God’s chosen people, but Christians now are? Did God disown the Jews for good this time? Christians don’t seem willing to accept that Jesus lived his life and died as a Jew, despite Scripture that declares, “I came only for the Jews. Jesus died with a crown on his head that claimed he was king of the Jews. His apostles lived and died devout Jews. Jesus never started a new religion, and he never declared that he came to save the world from sin; he only came to warn people how God expects them to conduct their lives. The 5th Chapter of Matthew is Jesus’s main message to the world. In that chapter, Jesus taught people how to pray. Christians should really study the Lord’s Prayer. Jesus, of course, refers to God’s Kingdom to come on Earth, not heaven. That was his sole mission.
In Judaism, the New Covenant (referenced in Jeremiah 31:31–34) is not a replacement for the Mosaic Covenant or the Torah, but rather a renewal and revitalization of the existing eternal relationship between God and the Jewish people. Jewish tradition views the term “new” as indicating a renewed national commitment and a deeper, internalized level of obedience to God’s laws, rather than a religious obligation that supersedes the Torah.
Matthew 16:27: For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. This phrase indicates that he will judge the world not merely as a human figure, but as the Son of Man. By saying “his Father’s glory,” the text is linking Jesus to God’s authority and status. In early Christian belief, this implies that when the “Son of Man” returns, he does so not as a humble teacher but as a figure acting with God’s own power and legitimacy, exercising the full splendor and power delegated to him by the Father.
But here’s the problem: several Gospel passages state that Jesus’ return or the fulfillment of end-times events would occur within the lifetime of his contemporaries. Matthew 24:34, Mark 13:30, and Luke 21:32 contain the declaration that “this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.” Additionally, Matthew 10:23 suggests the disciples would not finish their mission in Israel before the Son of Man came, and Mark 9:1 promises that some standing with Jesus would not taste death before seeing the kingdom of God with power. Mark 16:17–18 records Jesus’ Great Commission, stating that specific miraculous signs will accompany those who believe, including casting out demons, speaking in new tongues, picking up serpents, and drinking deadly poison without being harmed. These verses also promise that believers will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover, not to mention that all prayers WOULD be answered. Did these things happen? Jesus wouldn’t lie, so why haven’t his promises come to fruition?
I’ll tell you why. Paul explicitly stated in Galatians 1:12 that he did not receive the gospel (I think he means good news since the “approved” gospels weren’t written yet) from any man, nor was he taught it, but rather received it through a direct revelation from Jesus Christ. This is where I have to toss the yellow flag on the field. The New Testament texts are products of their time rather than literal transcripts of divine inspiration. Many scholars view Jesus of Nazareth as an apocalyptic preacher who genuinely expected God’s kingdom to arrive soon. Statements about “this generation” not passing away reflect that expectation. When the anticipated event didn’t occur, early followers had to reinterpret those teachings. Early Christians believed they were inspired, but their writings show human limitations, expectations, and reinterpretations. Whether that counts as “true inspiration” is a philosophical or theological judgment, not a historical conclusion.
Another explanation is that Christianity dishonored God by evolving into a polytheistic, pagan religion, using Mithraism as a pattern, when it decided that God was a Holy Trinity, the most idolatrous of all doctrines. You could argue that God is omniscient and was aware, but He was aware that Adam would sin, yet He let things evolve with the knowledge that he would have to kill everyone except Noah and his family in the future.
Interestingly, Christians fail to realize that Jesus could not have been born on December 25th, and God abhors cutting down trees, shaping them with tools, and adorning them with silver and gold.
You, me, and everyone else on this planet are a son or daughter of God, just as Jesus is a son of God. God is the creator of all things, so of course, we are all His sons and daughters. None of us is his equal, even if He lives within us as He lived within Jesus, and He is adamant about being the ONE and only. The church and its stooge apologists contrived a bunch of mumbo jumbo Trinity words that only reflect modalism, also known as Sabellianism. Another thing to consider is that God is ONE and cannot be seen, so the fact that St. Stephen claims he saw Jesus standing next to the glory of God or that Jesus sits at the right hand of God is a dead giveaway of the folly of a Trinity. Besides, isn’t a father always older than a son? You are told to believe the impossible. Consequently, and for probably many more reasons than I have laid out herein, God may not have chosen you to serve Him. He and Jesus have disappeared for two thousand years and counting until Christians wake up to reality.
Perhaps this will wake someone up. Jesus tells you in plain language why your prayers aren’t answered when he said: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.” (John 15:16) Jesus also said, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him” (John 6:44). Does anyone recall reading about “The Book of Life?” What free will do you have if you are or are not to be found in that book?
I find it strange that Christians pray to Jesus’s heavenly Father and ponder why Jesus’s many promises have never come to fruition. Jesus said if you believe (and are chosen as stated above), you can have anything. Ask, and it will be given to you by his Father. Matthew 7:7. After two thousand years, you would think Christians would be smart enough to realize that their religion represents an empty promise, and they are actually praying to the deaf ear of the Jewish Old Testament God! There are no miracles and no answered prayers, except for maybe just a few mere coincidences that would have happened anyway! Most Christians pretend that many of their prayers are answered. I don’t believe finding lost keys, a good parking spot, landing a great job, or winning the lottery count as answered prayers. An example of a real, qualifying, and verifiable miracle would be to quietly and secretly pray one time on your own for $50,000 cash to be handed to you tomorrow so you could sponsor a food program for starving people or any such relief program that could help the needy. God could do that, but would He for you? A prayer for a cure for cancer has been ignored millions of times. So, Christian, before you say grace for the food before you, think of all the starving people in the world.
By the way, when you pray, you are really praying to Jesus ’ father, who is the one and only Jewish God, who is also the God you pray to. Didn’t I already mention that Jesus claimed he came ONLY for the Jews and not to change one iota of the Law, which is the Old Testament that explicitly states, “salvation and blessing will come to all nations through Israel, specifically through the descendants of Abraham.” Genesis 12:2–3 records God’s promise to Abram: “In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed,” linking the formation of a great nation with universal blessing. Psalm 117 commands, “Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol Him, all peoples!” indicating a global scope of worship. 1 Kings 8:43 records Solomon’s prayer that foreigners visiting the temple would know God’s name, so “all the peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You.” So, maybe another possibility for Jesus not fulfilling his promise could lie within Judaism itself. Perhaps they haven’t lived up to God’s expectations according to their laws and practices. I’m not qualified to elaborate, but I can speculate; after all, the New Covenant was promised to them. John hijacked the concept and shaped it for his audience.
God’s choice of Israel as the favored nation was not to exclude other nations but to serve as the vessel through which the Messiah would bring salvation to the entire world. The Christian religion was never meant to exist. Islamists believe they are divinely inspired and that Jesus is a prophet of God. Who’s to say they aren’t right? To their credit, they get on their knees before the ONE TRUE GOD five times a day. I respect that.
