The divinity of Jesus is a false doctrine that goes against the teachings of the Bible.

Thank you for joining me in this debate.I accept that I could have used the entire verses in round one. If I do not do so hereafter then it is purely to limit the word count and highlight whatever particular point I am making from the verse submitted. Doing so has not and you will discover will not detract from the context of the entire verse, chapter, book or the Bible as a whole. We agree that Numbers 23:19 and Hosea 11:9 cannot be referring to Jesus. These verses are referring to God. You say that God the Father and Jesus are not the same and I agree. These verses along with 1 Samuel 15:29 are three examples of the character of God being defined as incompatible and inconsistent with that of a human. This is not metaphorical language, it is literal. The Bible is defining God by what he literally is not, a man. God does not do the things that humans do and Jesus was human. This doctrine of a Trinity cannot be supported with any Biblical evidence. The word Trinity is not found anywhere in the Bible. Biblical references supporting this doctrine cannot be found in the original scriptures. This is a debate built upon Biblical evidence therefor rebuttals that are not supported with Biblical evidence are meaningless and worthless. If the everlasting word of God states that God is not a man then it does of course mean that a man is not God or that God will become a man at a later date. The consistent theme throughout the Bible is that God is one not that God is three in one. I agree with you that Moses had no concept of God being a man or that God would appear hundreds of years later revaluing his third part human form with its own characteristics. We agree that the first primary author of the Bible and one of the greatest Prophets had no idea of this concept. All of his books state that God is one giving no mention of God being a trinity. The same can be said for the rest of the books of the Bible. God spoke his holy word through Moses. Moses was not ignorant; he was in full knowledge that Jesus would appear hundreds of years later. God explained this to Moses with no mention of Jesus being God or part of a holy trinity. God spoke to Moses telling him that Jesus will be a Prophet just like him; 'I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, LIKE UNTO THEE, and will put my WORDS in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all THAT I SHALL COMMAND HIM. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto MY WORDS which he shall speak IN MY NAME, I will require it of him.' (Deuteronomy 18:18-19) We know that Moses was referring to Jesus by reading Acts 3:22. 'For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.’ This confirms that Jesus is the Prophet that Moses foretold. God’s word will become flesh when he puts his words in his mouth and he will speak all that God commands him. Everyone must obey what Jesus says because he speaks God’s words in God’s name. If they disobey then they will die in their sins. In The Gospels of Mathew, Mark and Luke, Jesus confirms that he is a prophet; Matthew 13:57, Mark 6:4, and Luke 4:24. In the Gospels of Mathew, Luke and John the Bible confirms that those receiving the teachings and witnessing the miracles of Jesus first-hand understood that he was a prophet; Matthew 21:11, Matthew 21:46, Luke 7:16, Luke 24:19, John 4:19, John 6:14 and John 7:40. The literal translation of John 1:1 reads, 'In [the] In In beginning was the word and the word was with The God and God was the word' When John writes 'The God' he is referring to 'The God of the Hebrews; the one and only God'. He does write that the word was with 'The God' (Yahweh). He does not write that 'The God' was the word. Instead he writes 'God' was the word. The definitive article 'the' is absent rendering God a predicate of the subject 'the word', 'ho logos'. The predicate is used to denote the attributes of the subject. God is the word therefore reads that 'the word is about God, the word declares God. John 1:1 simply defines 'the word' as being with God and about God. It is God's word that created all things not Jesus (1:3). It is not until verse 14 that the word became flesh; it does not say that God became flesh. God's word created Jesus and the word of God spoke through Jesus declaring God, showing the way to him. Deuteronomy 18:18 states that God will put his ‘words in his mouth’ this is consistent with John writing that God’s word became flesh. The literal translation of John 1:17-18 reads; 'For the law through Moses was given the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ came. God no one has seen ever the one of a kind God the being in the bosom of the Father that declares/shows the way.' The logos spoke through Moses giving the law and the logos spoke through Jesus giving the grace and the truth. Both of them spoke 'divine utterance' and neither of them were divine. All that is defined as divine in John 1 is the logos, God’s word. The 'monogenés' (one of a kind) 'theos' (God) is the word of God, the 'logos' declaring the will and the way to the unseen God (1:18). In John 8 the scribes and Pharisees took a woman to Jesus so that he might condemn her to be stoned to death for adultery. Jesus did not condemn the woman and informed the scribes and Pharisees that they 'are from below; I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world'. (John 8:23). The scribes and Pharisees interpretation and implementation of Gods law that was given through Moses was of this world and below. Jesus routinely publicly berated the scribes and Pharisees for this; 'Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?' (Matthew 23:33) 'But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.' (Matthew 23:13) Jesus was the Prophet that Moses foretold. His words were given to him from God and he must be obeyed (Deuteronomy 18:19). The scribes and Pharisees did not accept Jesus as such; consequently Jesus regularly condemned them to hell. Jesus tells us himself in John 8:37 that this is exactly why they wanted to kill him; 'I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.'The logos spoke through Moses giving us the Divine Law. The logos spoke through Jesus bringing divine grace and truth to the interpretation and implementation of the divine law. The scribes and Pharisees interpretations and teachings of the Law of Moses were worldly and even demonic. The interpretations and teachings of Jesus were not from this world, they were from above; they were from God. We have already established who Jesus wanted the scribes and Pharisees to recognise him as when he tells them 'for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sin' (John 8:24). He is the prophet that Moses foretold in The Old Testament Deuteronomy 18:18-19. The New Testament confirms that this is Jesus in Acts 3:22. If we read on in John 8 to verse 28 and verse40 Jesus clarifies that he is not divine but is merely speaking divine truth; 'I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.' 'But now ye seek to kill me, A MAN that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: Other verses of Jesus distinguishing himself from God and from his divine words include John 5:30 and 7:16; ‘I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.’ ‘Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.’ In Colossians 2:9 Paul states that God dwelt in Jesus, he does not write that Jesus is God. Commenting on Paul’s writings in 2 Peter 3:16 Peter writes; ‘As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.’ According to Peter Paul can write equivocally and ambiguously. Nonetheless Paul writes unequivocally and unambiguously when he states that Jesus is a man not a God. 'For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus' (1 Timothy 2:5) 'That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him' (Ephesians 1:17) In Colossians 1:15 Paul writes that Jesus is the first born of every creature 'ktisis'. Ktisis is something created by God. Out of everything created by God Jesus is the first born. This clearly groups Jesus together with God's creation rendering Jesus a created being. Romans 1:25 states; ‘Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator’. Romans 1:22-23 is not exclusively referring to worshiping idols it is forbidding turning The Creator (God) into something created by God (flesh). This is precisely what the false trinity doctrine does. Paul wrote to the Romans warning them not to turn God into flesh. Almost three hundred years later the high pagan Priest of the Roman Empire declared Jesus as God and this false pagan doctrine has become mainstream Christianity.