Two Adams and Eden

TWO ADAMS AND EDEN
PROF. M. M. NINAN
.…………..In Deuteronomy 6:4, the well known passage called the Shema (from the Hebrew word
meaning “to hear”), Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!,” the word one is echad,
which refers to one, not in the absolute sense, but one in the collective sense, like one bunch of
grapes. Thus, even this passage does not destroy the concept of the trinity. While the trinity is not
explicitly stated in either the Old or New Testaments, it is implicitly taught in a number of ways, but
especially in the New Testament. …..
A careful study of the New Testament demonstrates that not only did the authors of the New
Testament declare that Jesus Christ was God in the flesh, but Christ himself believed and declared
himself to be God and one in essence with the Father. The idea that he was only a god is
polytheism, a concept totally contrary to both the Old and New Testaments. ….
The passage in John 1:1 can in no way can be made to say that Jesus was only a god who was
with the Father. It dramatically says that he is God of very God, yet distinct from the Father as God.
The fact that “God” (Greek theos) is without the article does not mean “a god,” but, again, according
to Greek grammar, is designed to stress the undiminished deity of the Logos, “the Word.”
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