Can we find at least one plural pronoun?
Trinitarians, critics of JWs continue to insist that Jesus is Jehovah [YHWH] yet he continues to ignore the bible, when it repeatedly uses singular pronouns for the name Jehovah, such as “I, he, him, you, yourself…” it will be seen for example, that in, 1 Kings 18:21 Elijah addresses God with the singular pronoun “him”, also we see in 2 Kings 19:15, 19 king Hezekiah address Jehovah as “you are God alone”, "you" being a singular pronoun!
Here is Neh 9:6-8 ASV
“Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
7 Thou art Jehovah the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham,
8 and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it unto his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous.”
In the term “God” are there 3 *whos* i.e. persons?
Notice the sheer amount of times Nehemiah uses the singular pronouns when talking about God, “Thou, thee, who, thy” even Abraham is addressed by using the singular pronoun “him, his”; if Trinitarian make a specious argument for the singular pronouns, for YHWH [Jehovah] being a 3 in 1 God, then by their same rule, we are equally justified I making an exception in Abraham’s case, as the singular pronouns are used in his case also and as we see elsewhere in the bible, the same singular pronouns used for Jehovah are used for Abraham and other servants of God, are we to then assume that in YHWH, that if there are 3 whos in God, then there are 3 whos in Abraham; as the Trinity is supposed to be one God, consisting of 3 whos i.e. “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”, which 3 whos is supposed to constitute the one God, so too with Abraham, if we construe that the pronouns with reference to YHWH are not singular in some mysterious and mystical way, are we at liberty to play the same Trinitarian word game with Abraham…and if so, who are the other 2 whos in him!
Interestingly, not only does the OT call YHWH "Elohim", but, some 90 times does it also call him by the singular title "Eloah" (God)!
An interesting text is math 4:3, where Satan temps Jesus, we are all familiar with the scene:
“The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." NIV
In the original Greek, when Mathew mentions the term “God” [theou] (genitive) he uses the singular, not the plural form!
Again, if we look at Rom 11:1 we see the term “God” [theos] (nominative) is used and in fact, when we come across the term “God” with reference to God, such is the noun used in every instance construed with singular pronouns and in the Greek, with reference to “God” we never ever see “theoi” the plural form or in any part of the bible, do we see plural pronouns used of God, always singular, denoting one person and only one person and not more than one!
The pronoun evidence alone should make the Trinitarian think twice, because, if God is true pluralistic, then we should at least see at least one or two plural pronouns used in connection with such “God”!
In the Hebrew OT, even though God is rendered “elohim” in some translations, when the Hebrew OT was translated into Greek [LXX, Septuagint] the translators did not hesitate to translate “elohim” into the Greek “theos” [ God – singular] never “theoi” [God – plural] surely if God where 3 in 1 the Greek noun and pronouns should have reflected such, but not one instance do we see such a situation, therefore, the Trinity must be an extra-biblical concept and derived from…!
As a last example, we see how the singular pronoun “thou” [you] is used in Isa 63:16; 64:8 ASV
“For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.”
“But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.”
Again we see the singular pronouns used with the name Jehovah [YHWH] thus positively proving, that Jehovah the Father, alone and no one else is called Jehovah, as every time singular pronouns are used, again showing that the Trinity is a contrivance!
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