Some Christian scholars argue that Yeshua was one of the three visitors to Abraham in the Book of Genesis 18 and 19, when they are trying to defend the deity of Messiah. The strange thing about the trinitarian mindset here is their argument that says no one has seen ‘God’ which which they interpret as “no one has seen God the Father“. Accordingly, if ‘God’ visited Abraham, then it must be ‘Jesus’ (why not the Holy Spirit?). It is almost like, in their mind, ‘Jesus’ is already incarnate, that the pre-existing Son is already incarnate and that is why you get to see him. The strange part about this trinitarian argument, if you stop and think about it, is that ‘Jesus’ had not yet been incarnated according to trinitarian doctrine. This event comes two thousand years later after Abraham. So up in Heaven, in trinitarian doctrine, you have ‘God’ the Father, ‘God’ the Son, and ‘God’ the Holy Spirit who are equal.
We see in the Book of Exodus.
Exodus 33:20 [Hebraic Roots Bible - HRB]
You are not able to see My face; for no man can see Me and live.
The Eternal tells Moses that no one can see Him and live. Why do trinitarians think you can see the pre-incarnate ‘Jesus’ and live, but you cannot see the Father and live? Is ‘Jesus’ inferior in some kind of way? In the trinitarian doctrine, the Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit are supposedly equal and have the same qualities. However, you cannot see the Father and live, but you can see ‘Jesus’ and live? This thinking process does not make sense.
Moreover, the trinitarians disregard certain verses in Scripture when they want to make their claims
Hebrews 1:1-2 [HRB]
1 In many ways and in various ways of old, Elohim{Mighty One} spoke to the fathers in the prophets;
2 in these last days He has spoken to us in the Son...
Hebrews 1:1-2 completely rules out all these claims. If the Son had been speaking to the people of the Eternal all throughout the Old Covenant, the writer of Hebrews would not have written this verse. His point is that something has changed. The Eternal did not speak to his people through a son in the Old Covenant days but now He does speak to His people in a son.
If the Eternal had spoken to His people through the Son in the Old Covenant, as trinitarians claim, why would the writer of Hebrews make such a statement?
However, Trinitarians claim that Yeshua
● visited Abraham
● was on Mount Moriah with Abraham preventing him from sacrificing Isaac
● is the ‘Angel of the Lord’
● was the one giving the law on Mount Sinai
● was the one speaking to Moses in Exodus 33-34 etc…
Before you even get to Genesis 18 to 19, there are many problems with this trinitarian claim. In Genesis 18, Abraham receives three visitors and the usual ‘trinitarian claim’ is that one of these three visitors was ‘Jesus’.
Genesis 18:16; 20-22 [TS]
6 And the men rose up from there and looked toward Sedom{Sodom}, and Abraham went with them to send them away.
... ... ...
20 And יהוה said, “Because the outcry against Sedom and Amorah{Gomorrah} is great, and because their sin is very heavy,
21 “I am going down now to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me, and if not, I know.”
22 So the men turned away from there and went toward Sedom, but יהוה still stood before Abraham.
Trinitarians imagine ‘Jesus’ into this text here because one of them is called יהוה (the Eternal) and since no one can see the Eternal (the Father) and live, they conclude that it must be ‘Jesus’. Two of the men went towards Sedom and one stayed behind speaking with Abraham. The arrival of the two angels is recorded in Genesis 19
Genesis 19:1-2 [TS]
1 And the two messengers came to Sedom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sedom. And when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground,
In 18:21 the Eternal says He is going down to Sedom and in 19:1 it is the two messengers that arrive in Sedom. The two messengers arriving in Sedom is how the Eternal goes to Sedom. In other words,
THE ETERNAL GOES TO SEDOM BY SENDING TWO MESSENGERS TO REPRESENT HIM
Angels are messengers of the Eternal. They represent Yahweh, they speak and do things on His behalf. Remember what Yeshua claims about the things that he says,
John 14:24 [Rotherham Emphasized Bible - REB]
...the word which ye hear, is not mine, but, the Father’s who sent me.
In the same manner as the Eternal spoke through Yeshua in the Nazarene Writings (New Covenant), He also spoke through the angels, His messengers in the Tanach (Old Covenant). In the Hebrew mindset, they are more than representatives of Yahweh; they are representations of Yahweh because they manifest Yahweh’s will. They are not really Yahweh Himself, they are sons of Yahweh and children are representations of their father’s character and image. They communicate what Yahweh is and what He says to people. When we see the word ‘angel’, we must not forget that they are messengers and that they represent Him.
So two men go to Sedom and one man remains with Abraham.
YAHWEH REMAINS WITH ABRAHAM THROUGH HIS REPRESENTATIVE
Yahweh goes to Sedom = His two representatives (messengers) go to Sedon.
Yahweh remains with Abraham = His representative (messenger) remains with Abraham.
In addition, notice what the messengers said to Lot
Genesis 19:13-14 [TS]
13 we are going to destroy this place, because the cry against them has grown great before the face of יהוה, and יהוה has sent us to destroy it
14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for יהוה is going to destroy this city!
So when the two messengers say that they will destroy the city and that the Eternal has sent them to destroy the city, Lot understands this as the Eternal will destroy the city.
Genesis 19:24 [TS] And יהוה rained sulphur and fire on Sedom and Amorah, from יהוה out of the heavens.
SUMMARY:
● The three ‘men’ who visited Abraham were messengers sent by Yahweh the Eternal.
● They were not only representatives of the Eternal, they were His representations; they said and did things on His behalf as well as carrying out His will.
● In the Hebrew mindset, it was the Eternal who visited Abraham and destroyed Sedom and Amora.
● Hebrews 1:1 rules out any claim that the Eternal spoke and acted through ‘Jesus’ in Old Covenant times.
● There is only one Deity (‘God’); the Father and the ‘God’ of the man Yeshua the Messiah.
Source:
Brother Kel (The Trinity Delusion – YouTube)