Does the teaching that Yahushua is the Son of Yahuwah, not Yahuwah himself, demean him?

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Answer: No, it makes him bigger.

The real question is not, who Yahushua IS NOT, but who Yahushua IS. If I tell you, that I am not the president of you country, it doesn't tell you anything about who I am.

The Word of Yah makes it clear that Satan's primary goal is to blind people to the truth about Yahushua Christ, because he is the only way to salvation and the perfect representation of G-d's heart for mankind.

2 Corinthians 4:4-5
In whom the G-d of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of G-d, should shine unto them.

G-d is spirit, and Satan doesn't have to "blind" people to something that is invisible. But he does all he can to blind people to the glorious image of G-d, Yahushua Christ. His chief goal is to stop people from believing in Yahushua and to that end he offers a wide variety of lies about Yahushua, which millions of well meaning people have believed.

The Devil has succeeded in obscuring a key truth about Yahushua for most Christians by way of the spurious idea that Yahushua is G-d in human flesh, a G-d-man who is 100% G-d and 100% man. At best, this is 200% puzzling.

If this doctrine is actually from the Enemy, what is his goal in trying to get people to believe it? To keep you in bondage:

John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Believing error keeps one in bondage to some degree. If Yahushua were G-d, what he did would not mean that much, because nothing is hard for G-d. Neither could he have been tempted in all ways as we are so that we can now relate to him and identify with him in that.

The truth is that Yahushua was tempted far beyond what any of us will ever experience, because Satan threw everything he had at the Son of G-d, who was G-d's only hope for man's redemption.

Matthew 4:1
Then was Yahushua led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Yahushua really lived by faith, that is, by trusting the promises of His Father. Never did he allow fear to cause him to sin by looking anywhere but Yahuwah for what he needed. Never did he allow pride to dictate an unG-dly response on his part. Never did self-pity distort his perspective of reality to the end that he became depressed under the burden of mankind's sins.

If Yahushua would be G-d, we would have no real example of faith.

By the way, the fact that Yahushua (the last Adam) had no sinful nature is not, why he did not sin. How do we know that? Because the First Adam did not have a sinful nature, yet he sinned royally. Both had a genuine free will and Yahushua chose not to sin.

And when Scripture says that he was tempted in all ways as we are, it means that he felt the same internal pull toward lust, self-defense, self-pity, etc., as we do, but time after time he subjugated it and chose to respond in a G-dly way.

The theory of the Trinity muddies the waters in regard to many other critical biblical topics. The theory that Yahushua is G-d actually diminishes the magnitude of his heroism on our behalf.

Obviously it wouldn't have been hard for G-d to do what Yahushua did. And what would we expect G-d to do but be true to His nature and inherent perfection?

Mat 19:26
But Yahushua beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with G-d all things are possible.

Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord Yahuwah! Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

Genesis 18:14
Is any thing too hard for Yahuwah?...

But for a man to face humanity as well as Satan's subtle ploys umpteen times a day for his whole life and never respond sinfully, being in agony in Gethsemane and then to endure hours of indescribable torture and then hang on the Cross for six hours of excruciating agony while still focusing on Scripture he had to fulfill—and forgiving those who were killing him? Thank You Yahushua!

Matthew 26:38-39
Then saith he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Luke 22:44
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Yahushua cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My G-d, my G-d, why hast thou forsaken me?

Matthew 27:50
Yahushua, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

He also said that we human believers, biblically called his "brothers", can be and do like he was and did. Think about that, because it is that kind of identification with him that Satan does not want you to have.

Hebrews 2:11-13
For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which G-d hath given me.

If we become like Yahushua, do you think we will stand out among other people? Well, did he? What was the testimony of those who encountered him?

"We've never seen a guy like this. We've never heard anyone speak like this..."

Especially in the gospel of John, the word "glory" is often used in regard to Yahushua, and the Greek word is interesting. Bullinger's Lexicon says it means

"not the object itself, but the appearance of the object that attracts attention."

Think about a bowl of apples. Take one and polish it for a minute. Put it back in the bowl. What might someone say when he sees the bowl? "Look at that apple!" Not because it is an apple (that's no big deal), but because of its appearance compared to the other apples.

"Look at that man Yahushua!" Not because he was a man, that was commonplace. But because of how his words and deeds stood out compared to those around him. Had he been G-d, that luster would be greatly diminished, but seeing the truth that he was and is the Son of G-d, the Man among men, we can say with awe, respect and gratitude:

What a man!!!

And we can be like him.