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and who is to say, and it will be there. When we conipare the two, we find that both
the Targums and John 1:1-3 places the memra and the logos in a creation context.
The next phrase in John 1:1 is, ''and the Word was with God". The Targumist would render it, "and the memra was with God". In light of Jewish thought, this cannot imply a secondary entity in the deity, rather here we have an exegesis of God's descriptive name, HYH. "God's speech" was with Him. To the Targumist this meant that His "voice" was with Him. John 1:1 concludes by saying, "and the Word was God." Here again the Targumist would say, "and God was the memra". Since the memra is a representation of the descriptive name HYH, it would obvi ously mean that YHWH was the memra (God the creator). It could never refer to a separate entity (Separate God)." (Wilson, 248-249).
Trinitarians honestly believe that there is only one true God, but they err making three co-equal and co-eternal persons in the name of God the father, Godtheson,andGodtheHolyspiritwiththesamesubstanceand different subsistences. However, this can not be true, for three persons with different subsistences cannot be God.
Also tiying to make the memra into a separate "persona", apart from that oftheFathercannotbetrue. Wemustrememberthatthememrawasarep resentation of Ehyeh, the descriptive name of the Father, YHWH. In other words, the memra was God Himself. Even in Jesus' day, the Pharisees never
considered the memra of the Targums or the shekhinah of the Talmud, as being in any sense aseparate personality coexistent with God Himself. They stressedthestrictunityofGod.Tothem,Godwasone. Johnwasalsovery careful in his gospel when he described God the Father as the Logos. But the
Trinitarian translators twisted the end of chapter 1 verse 1 to create two ''Logos Gods" by interpreting " Kai 0e6? i^v 6 Aoyo?, in to, Kai AOyos i^v 6 Oeoq. which means, according toTrinitarian view, the logos, that was with
the Father, is another person with the name of God the Son with its own sub sistence.
The invisible God, from eternity to eternity, manifests Himself by His word, "For the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord" (ISamuel 3:21). Beware of the so-called Trinitarian Pentecostal philosophers, which believe that they have a revelation of three or nine
gods. Below is an exampleof a heretical revelation from Benny Hinn:
"Man, 1feel revelation knowledge already coming on me here...God the Father, ladies and gentlemen, is a person; and He is a triune being by Himself, separate from theSon, and the Holy Ghost. Say, what did you say? Hearit,hearit,hearit. See,GodtheFatherisaperson,GodtheSonisaper-