Deuteronomy 6:4 - The Shema


"Hear O Israel, Yehovah our Elohim Yehovah is one."
- The Shema


Proof of the Trinity Error

The fact that Yeshua was born under the Torah and was required to observe the Torah, demonstrates to us precisely WHO this passage is identifying: the Elohim of our Master Yeshua Messiah.



The Evidence

Yehovah is three

While the text says that Yehovah is one, Trinitarians would have it that we can also imagine a different idea into this passage, "Hear O Israel, Yehovah our Elohim, Yehovah is three," or, "Hear O Israel, Yehovah our Elohim, Yehovah is three yet one." Or, they alternatively imagine the text to be saying, "Hear O Israel, Yehovah our Elohim Yehovah is one [divine nature].


We Jews worship what we know

Yeshua's; Elohim was not any different than the Elohim of Israel. As a Jew under the Torah, he was obligated to obey the Torah and Yeshua' Elohim could not be any different than the Elohim of Israel. His Elohim was one person and one person alone, his Father alone. If his Elohim was one person then so was the Elohim of Israel.

Trintiarians claim that the Jews did not know they had been worshiping a three-person-being all along until it had been revealed to them in New Testament times. However, Yeshua declared the opposite. In the context of worshiping Elohim in Jerusalem, Yeshua declared that the Jews worshiped what they knew (John 4:20-22). Trinitarians are nullifying Yeshua' words for the sake of their tradition. Not only so, they fail to see the implications of Yeshua' words, WE worship what WE know. Yeshua is including himself among all Jews and saying that all the nation of Israel knew what they worshiped just as he himself knew what he worshiped. Yeshua knew who he worshiped as the Elohim of Israel: his Father alone. But Yeshua used the word "WE" indicating that ALL Jews knew this and not just he himself.


Yehovah OUR Elohim

The Shema says "OUR Elohim "not "MY Elohim." These words referred to the Elohim of EVERY Israelite and that included Yeshua. Yeshua could not have interpreted the Shema to mean one thing while it really meant something else for the rest of the Jewish nation (even if they didn't realize it as Trinitarians claim). He could not have interpreted the Shema to refer to one person while it actually really meant three persons for every other Jew. Such a proposition is absurd. Yeshua could not have possibly interpreted the Shema to refer to only his Father, which he did, while at the same time it referred to three persons for every other Israelite. The Shema says "OUR" Elohim.


Yehovah is one single "He"

At Mark 12:28-34, Yeshua and a Jewish scribe agreebly conclude that the Shema is the foremost command. They also agree that the words "Yehovah is one" mean "He is one and there is no other but He. In this account, Yeshua shows us that the Shema means "Yehovah is one HE." So we know for certain that Shema means that Yehovah is one HE, one WHO, while Trinitarians read the notion, "Yehovah is one WHAT" into the text ignoring and nullifying the testimony of Yeshua concerning the meaning of the Shema.

Even further, we know with absolute certainly how Yeshua identified that one single HE of the Shema. He did not identify this HE as a Triune being. The way Yeshua observed the Shema was to recognize and serve his Father alone as the one Elohim of Israel.

Reasonable people further understand that the word "HE" or "HIM" are words used to refer to a single person. That is the very purpose of using singular personal pronouns. Hence, at Mark 12:28-34, Yeshua's; witness shows us that the Shema is referring to one person. And the proof is in the pudding when we honestly regard how Yeshua obeyed the Shema. He observed the Shema command by recognizing and serving only one person as the Elohim of Israel, his Father alone.


The Elohim of Yeshua - His Father Alone

Throughout the New Testament, we find that the Elohim of Yeshua was the Father alone. His Elohim was not a Triune being; his Elohim was only his Father.

Yeshua's; Elohim was one person: his Father. Yeshua's; Elohim was a one person being. A one-person Elohim is not the same Elohim as a three-person Elohim and for that reason we cannot say that Yeshua's; Elohim was a three-person-being. A three-person-Elohim is not the same thing as a one-person-Elohim. Trinitarians testify themselves that if you do not serve a three-person-Elohim as they do, they you serve another Elohim, a different Elohim.

Now since Yeshua was born under the Torah, and required to observe the Torah, he was therefore required to observe the Shema, "Hear O Israel, Yehovah our Elohim, Yehovah is one. You shall love Yehovah your Elohim with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength." (Deuteronomy 6:4-5). Simply ask yourself how Yeshua was expected to obey this command. Ask yourself who Yeshua identified as his one Elohim in order to obey this command. It is quite simple to see that Yeshua' Elohim was the Elohim of the Shema and Yeshua's; Elohim was his Father alone. It was his Father alone who he loved with all his heart and all his soul and all his strength. If we suppose the Elohim being identified at Deuteronomy 6:4 is a Triune being, then Yeshua disobeyed the Torah since he did not worship or serve this Triune being nor did he love this Triune being "with all his heart and all his soul and all his strength." Either Yeshua knowingly disobeyed the Shema or the Shema is not referring to a Triune Elohim. It is one or the other. Else Yeshua did not know his Elohim was Triune in which case, Yeshua cannot possibly be the one Elohim.



Conclusion

Should any of us reasonably suppose that when Yeshua heard his brothers (Mary's sons) citing the Shema that he was secretly thinking, "There they go talking about me again." It is ridiculous. Or shall we reasonably suppose that Yeshua, like all his Jewish brethren, interpreted the Shema in the same way - by recognizing and obeying only his Father as his only Elohim? And indeed, at John 4:2-22, Yeshua indicates to us that Jews had been worshiping the Father in Jerusalem, worshiping what "we know."

It should be quite clear to anyone that Yeshua's; Elohim was the Father alone and no one else. It should also be quite clear that Yeshua was required to obey the Torah and the Shema. It was not a Triune being which Yeshua loved with all his heart and all his soul and all his mind. It was his Father alone. And if he indeed obeyed the Shema by serving and worshiping his Father alone as the only true Elohim, then it should also be quite clear that only the Father is the one true Elohim. Otherwise, Yeshua knowingly disobeyed the Torah and you are dead in your sins.

Yeshua identified the one Elohim of the Shema for us. And the way he did that for us is by showing us who someone under the Torah must worship as his Elohim: his Father alone. If Yeshua worshiped the Father alone as his Elohim but the Elohim of the Shema was a Triune being, then Yeshua misinterpreted and disobeyed the foremost command of the Torah. Either that, or Yeshua had it right and Trinitarians are disregarding the testimony of Yeshua on the matter.