A systematic resource for Biblical Unitarian theology, exegesis, and the Hebraic context of the Messiah.
Phase 1: The Foundation of Reality — the first step in our 5-phase discipleship course
Welcome to the foundational cornerstone of biblical theology. As we establish the grand narrative of Scripture, there is no greater starting point than the great confession of Israel found in Deuteronomy 6:4. This text is not merely a verse; it is the beating heart of the Hebrew Bible, the daily breath of the faithful Israelite, and the very creed upon which the human Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, built his ministry.
The Hebrew word rendered "Spirit" is ruach (רוּחַ, Strong's H7307), and it occurs nearly four hundred times in the Old Testament. Its semantic range is wonderfully concrete: breath, wind, air in motion. The same word describes the wind that dried the flood waters (Gen 8:1), the breath in a living creature's nostrils (Gen 7:15), and the Spirit of God that hovered over the deep (Gen 1:2). The Greek equivalent, pneuma (πνεῦμα, G4151), carries the identical range — it is the root of our words "pneumatic" and "pneumonia," words about air and breath.
Humanity was not created to escape the earth. Humanity was created to rule it — as the living image of the one God, his appointed vice-regents over the physical world he called "very good."
The Bible's answer is not one rebellion but two — one in each realm the one God governs. The first unfolded in the garden-temple of Eden, where the human vice-regents abdicated their crown. The second unfolded among the sons of God themselves, when members of the heavenly household abandoned their station in the days of Noah.
The map for this journey is a single, eighty-word psalm that may be the most important forgotten chapter in the Bible: Psalm 82, the courtroom scene in which the one God arraigns, indicts, and sentences the gods of the nations. To read it rightly, we must first watch how those gods came to hold their posts.
We hold to Biblical monotheism — one God, the Father; the human Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth; the coming Kingdom of God on earth; and the sole authority of Scripture. These are not novelties but the apostolic faith restored.
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