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Craig Stansfield and Stephanie join Bill in giving some observations about care-giving for elderly parents in the home.

Bill and Stephanie have been married for nearly 33 years. They have five grown children. They worked with university age students for 30 years, and give some tips on "what to look for in a mate", and a few important aspects for both dating and marriage.

Two lessons from October 7 Hamas attack on Israel: 1. Hamas knew the attack would provoke a response from Israel. Perhaps Hamas underestimated Israel's response, but it wanted the Israeli response. 2. The Hamas attack on Israel has resulted in much devastation and destruction of the perpetrators. It may have gained some propaganda ground, but it resulted in the desires of the perpetrators to come back on their own heads and upon the heads of others they were associated with. Hamas charterhttps://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp   Hamasis an acronym of the Arabic phrase حركة المقاومة الإسلاميةor Ḥarakah al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic ResistanceMovement".   Samples:Preamble Israelwill exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just asit obliterated others before it"   Article8 Jihadis its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.   BasamNaim, Hamas Head of Political and International Relations, “We did not killcivilians…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egipqa0ZhUk&t=2s   HamasChief of National Relations Abroad, Ali Baraka: We Have Been Secretly Planningthe Invasion for Two Years https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1712030588872351872 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZsms0LJWQ   Hamaschief Ismail Haniyeh (from Qatar) 10/14/23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TsgINcg-ss   Why DidIsraeli Intelligence Fail So Disastrously https://youtu.be/Sqpur37h2jY?t=297   Failureof the Israeli-Gaza High Tech Border Fencehttps://www.timesofisrael.com/why-did-israel-think-a-border-fence-would-protect-it-from-an-army-of-terrorists/   #Hamas,#Israel-Hamas, #trinity, #deityofchrist, #unitarian, #biblicalunitarian,#billschlegel

The distinctives and uniqueness of the REV (Revised EnglishVersion) non-Trinitarian translation of the Bible.  Old Testament examples.   Resources:   REVBible Translationhttps://revbible.com/Gen/1/1   Lightof Messiah Israel Trip April 1-15, 2027 Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586730625381   RegistrationLight of Messiah Israel Trip (Pilgrim Tours) https://www.pilgrimtours.com/groups/lightofmessiah2027.htm?fbclid=IwY2xjawUs0n5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6_kZM9wY2zX7Qq4sQZX6GmvbkWe4tjMGI_ZcQ5evjYIa6pHTtuL4wsfsiYiw_aem_7SD9k6nHUtTwsobkUAIbVA   Micah5:2 Eternal Deity of the Messiah? Micah 5:2 and Matthew 2:5-6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWMdHdhkSuE   BillSchlegel One God Report: https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1   TheTrinity is NOT Biblical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1VuvKEyB0g   Deityof Christ Interpretations of Scripture Dishonor Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2VOKEvGqAw   WhatAbout John 1? What John 1:1-4 Means: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Johyi-O-HxA   BillSchlegel blog: Land and Bible: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/

All deity-of-Christ claims not only dishonor the Father, butthey also dishonor the Son, the Christ, the man Jesus of Nazareth, theJew who was born in Bethlehem some 2000 years ago.  In fact, all deity-of-Christ claims in theend deny that the human person Jesus of Nazareth ever existed.   Other Resources: Son of God in the Bible https://youtu.be/WaDElO7wU_8 Bill Schlegel One God Report: https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1 The Trinity is NOT Biblical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1VuvKEyB0g Deity of Christ Interpretations of Scripture Dishonor Jesusof Nazareth, the Christ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2VOKEvGqAw What About John 1? What John 1:1-4 Means: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Johyi-O-HxA Bill Schlegel blog: Land and Bible: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/   Other sources quoted in this podcast: Craig, William Lane. “A Defense of Neo-Apollinarianism.”Interview with The Analytic Christian. YouTube, July 13, 2020.https://youtu.be/3o9b_r0ReCk?t=1192. Mathis, David. “Anhypostasis: What Kind of Flesh Did JesusTake?” Desiring God. December 24, 2010.https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/anhypostasis-what-kind-of-flesh-did-jesus-take. Schaff, Philip. Historyof the Christian Church. Volume 3: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity, A.D.311–600. https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc3/hcc3.iii.xii.xxvi.html.

Is the Father alone the One God, or is the Trinity theOne God   MainstreamChristianity insists that there is one God, but for mainstream Christianity theone God is made up of three persons.    MainstreamChristianity reasons that since Jesus is God, then God the Father alone is notthe one God. Either a multi-person God (the Father and the Son, and then Spirittogether) are the one God, or the Father, a singular self, is the one God. Theycan’t both be the one God.   If theFather is the one true God, then the claim that “Jesus is God” is an attempt todenigrate the one true God -- the Father. If the Father alone is the one God, deity-of-Christand Trinitarian interpretations of Scripture are an attempt to put another Godin the place of the one God, the Father.

Is the Virgin Birth of Jesus something emphasized in the Bible and presented as essential for who Jesus is, and for salvation? The virgin conception and birth as a sign, evidence of God's involvement in the birth and life of the man Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, the Son of God. Full text: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-virgin-birth-essential-necessary.html Other Resources: Son of God in the Bible: https://youtu.be/WaDElO7wU_8 Bill Schlegel One God Report: https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1   The Trinity is NOT Biblical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1VuvKEyB0g   Deity of Christ Interpretations of Scripture Dishonor Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2VOKEvGqAw   What About John 1? What John 1:1-4 Means: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Johyi-O-HxA   Bill Schlegel blog: Land and Bible: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/

In this guest post, Professor Shlomi Michaels outlines six different, often opposing factions within the modern country of Iran. 1. Shia Twelver Mahdi Eschatologists, including the Supreme Leader 2. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) 3. The Civilian Government 4. The Iranian Armed Forces (Artesh) 5. People of the Silenced Majority 6. The Ethnic Minorities Understanding these different - often opposing - factions in Iran is essential for the USA and other Western countries as they seek a lasting end to war with Iran.Full text here: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2026/07/who-are-you-iran-collage-of-conflicting.html https://jcfa.org/why-the-united-states-is-losing-to-iran-at-the-negotiating-table/

“Deity of Christ” believers have claimed that Isaiah saw Jesus, the “second person of the Godhead”, in Isaiah’s vision of God recorded in Isaiah 6. The deity-of-Christ claim is that when John wrote, “Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him” (John 12:41) that when Isaiah saw God sitting on his throne in a vision, Isaiah saw Jesus.Did the prophet Isaiah, who claimed the God of Israel was the Father, claim to have seen God the Son and his glory?Or, was John claiming that "his glory" which Isaiah prophetically saw was the glory of the Servant of YHVH God?Resources: Written text of this podcast: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2026/07/john-1237-45-john-does-not-claim-that.htmlBill Schlegel One God Report: https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1The Trinity is NOT Biblical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1VuvKEyB0gDeity of Christ Interpretations of Scripture Dishonor Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2VOKEvGqAwWhat About John 1? What John 1:1-4 Means: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Johyi-O-HxABill Schlegel blog: Land and Bible: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/

Belief that God of the Bible is three-in-One stems back tothe Cappadocian Fathers.   If you are a Christian and you don’t know who the CappadocianFathers were and their role in developing the Trinity doctrine, this podcast isfor you.   In this episode Sam Tideman (Transfigured podcast) addressesquestions like these: ·        Who were the Cappadocian Fathers? ·        What were the circumstances thatbrought them together to deal with theological issues? ·        What theological/Christologicalissues are they famous for establishing? ·        How did they shape the doctrine ofthe trinity? ·        What was their version of thetrinity like? ·        What role did they play on thepolitical-ecclesial decisions to make the trinity the official state doctrine?   Resources: Transfiguredpodcast (Sam Tideman): YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@transfigured3673 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/30q4W2esWfIwiUQMcABD4y   BillSchlegel One God Report YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1fJjk0QUhsyr8r9hVCgoFk   Evolutionof the Trinity: Interview with Dr. Dale Tuggy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE1MrKQUUBM&list=PLUqWXumvcp5oTwoiZNb7bq-HG8-rHGxgS   Book:When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the LastDays of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein   Book:The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy, 318-381 byR. P. C. Hanson

In this podcast I focus on a few additional interpretive issues of specific words in John 1:14 that mainstream Christians interpret as evidence that God became man.The verb σκηνόω (dwell, tabernacle) is not used of God elsewhere in the Septuagint, while its New Testament occurrences do not naturally support the idea of God incarnating himself in a human body. The traditional translation "dwelt among us" is possible, but it is not the only way to interpret and translate John 1:14. The Greek preposition ἐν ordinarily means "in," and John's Gospel repeatedly uses “in” to describe relationship rather than spatial proximity. John's own usage of "in us," "in me," and "in you" consistently points toward personal relationship, not spatial proximity. John 1:14 can be understood as the Word dwelt “in us”, describing the human person Jesus, the Word, becoming life giving provision and sustenance for others. Such an interpretation fits naturally within John's broader theology of indwelling as a relationship with the Messiah that brings about life.The evidence from John's Gospel, the Septuagint, and the wider New Testament suggests that "the Word dwelt in us" deserves serious consideration as an alternative to the traditional rendering "the Word dwelt among us."An essential doctrinal teaching, something like the incarnation of God into man, should not hang on the interpretation of a single preposition in one verse. Big doctrinal claims require big, consistent, repeated, clear textual evidence. John simply does not say that God, or one person who is God, became man. Resources: Full Text: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2026/06/dwelt-in-us-or-dwelt-among-us-john-114.html The Word BECAME Flesh? Why John 1:14 does NOT say "God became man"https://youtu.be/z4HepHkyujkThe Word Became Flesh (Sustenance): A Metaphorical Interpretation of “Flesh”https://youtu.be/A87VcXKCWBM"The Word became flesh and dwelt IN us"? Dialog with Sam Tideman on John 1:14https://youtu.be/P4b9xZ0gX6g#gospelofjohn #biblicalunitarian

No one in the Bible teaches that God is a Trinity.   Husbandand Dad Seeks our God and Father: Interview with Luke Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCh_RCxVRWg   If the Bible is Right, Godis NOT a Trinity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1-qBYVrkdU   Bill Schlegel (One God Report) https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1   Land and Bible (Schlegel blog) https://landandbible.blogspot.com/

This episode argues for anon-Trinitarian, “new beginning” interpretation of John 1:1–4. John’s“beginning” does not refer to Genesis creation or a preexistent divine Christ,but to the beginning of Jesus’ ministry and the gospel message. “the Word” isthe human Jesus functioning as God’s ultimate spokesman and agent, with phraseslike “the Word was with God” and “the Word was God” describing Jesus’ intimaterelationship with and representation of the Father rather than shared divineessence. John 1:3 is better understood and translated as “all happened throughhim,” referring to the events and life-giving work of Jesus’ ministry ratherthan the creation of the universe. John’s introduction is about the new lifeand light which came to be through the historical man Jesus in the firstcentury, not about a pre-incarnate 2nd creator figure, or a personifiedwisdom/plan.   Blog Text: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2026/05/what-about-john-1-what-john-11-4-means.html

The Sons of God and Nephilim are Human Beings in Genesis6:1-4 (and Numbers 13:33).   Resources: Commentaryon Genesis 6:1-13 by Todd Morrel https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-sons-of-god-and-nephilim-are-human.html   MeridithCline: “Divine Kingship and Genesis 6:1-4”chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://meredithkline.com/files/articles/Divine-Kingship-and-Genesis-6_1-4.pdf   BillSchlegel One God Report https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1

This podcast gives a few examplesof how the Messenger Malach מַלְאַ֧ךְ in the Hebrew Bible represented or “was” the One  who Sent him   See also, podcast #130 “Agency in the Bible: The Human Person Jesus “was” the Father” https://youtu.be/s8FqSysuUGY   Theprinciple or practice of the מַלְאַ֧ךְ malach messenger, the one sent.   Understanding the Messenger principle is crucial to understanding how many “persons” God is. TheMessenger principle, both as a concept and a reality, means that a person’s messenger—theone sent—is regarded as the sender himself.   The proverbialHebrew statement about the Messenger Principle is “השליח שווה לשולחו”the one sent (a messenger) is equal to his sender.” The equality of the onesent to his sender is neither an equality of essence nor of individual one-to-oneidentity. Everyone understood that the messenger was not literally the sameperson nor the same being as the sender. Rather, the messenger was given thesender's full authority to speak and act on his behalf. The messenger carried authorityfrom the sender and was therefore to be regarded as the sender himself.   Old Testament scholar John Walton highlights aspects of messenger/agency in the ZondervanIllustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary when discussing the firstappearance of the angel (messenger) of Yahweh in Genesis 16 (to Hagar in thewilderness). Walton explains: In the ancient world direct communication between important parties was ararity. Diplomatic and political exchange usually required the use of anintermediary, a function that our ambassadors exercise today. The messenger whoserved as the intermediary was a fully vested representative of the partyhe represented. He spoke for that party and with the authority of thatparty. He was accorded the same treatment as that party wouldenjoy were he there in person. While this was standard protocol,there was no confusion about the person’s identity (emphasis mine).[1]   Judges11:12 Jephthahsent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying,"What is between you and me, that you have come to me tofight against my land?"     וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח יִפְתָּח֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל־מֶ֥לֶךְ בְּנֵֽי־עַמּ֖וֹן לֵאמֹ֑רמַה־לִּ֣י וָלָ֔ךְ כִּֽי־בָ֥אתָ אֵלַ֖י לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם בְּאַרְצִֽי׃   2 Kings3:7  (King Jehoram son of Ahaz after Ahabdied and Moab revolted) Then he(Jehoram) went and sent to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, "Theking of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me tofight against Moab?" And he said, "I will go up; I am as youare, my people as your people, my horses as yourhorses."    וַיֵּ֡לֶךְ וַיִּשְׁלַח֩אֶל־יְהוֹשָׁפָ֙ט מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֜ה לֵאמֹ֗ר מֶ֤לֶךְ מוֹאָב֙ פָּשַׁ֣ע בִּ֔יהֲתֵלֵ֥ךְ אִתִּ֛י אֶל־מוֹאָ֖ב לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶעֱלֶ֔הכָּמ֧וֹנִי כָמ֛וֹךָ כְּעַמִּ֥י כְעַמֶּ֖ךָ כְּסוּסַ֥י כְּסוּסֶֽיךָ׃   1 Samuel 16:19 Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and he said, "Send to meyour son David who is with the flock."     וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח שָׁא֛וּל מַלְאָכִ֖יםאֶל־יִשָׁ֑י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁלְחָ֥ה אֵלַ֛י אֶת־דָּוִ֥ד בִּנְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֥רבַּצֹּֽאן׃   Isa7:10 AndYHVH continued speaking to Ahaz, saying,   וַיּ֣וֹסֶף יְהוָ֔ה דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶל־אָחָ֖זלֵאמֹֽר׃