Excerpt from The Yahushaic Covenant Volume 1 by Rav Sha'ul Did Yahusha commit blasphemy? by Rav Sha'ul     Did Yahusha claim he was the Great I AM?  Did he claim he and Yahuah were one being?  Christianity would have us believe he did just that and the Jews tried him for blasphemy because of it. They say Yahusha was found innocent of blasphemy because he was Yahuah so it wasn’t blasphemy.  If Yahusha did in fact make those claims then he would have been found guilty of blasphemy but they found him innocent! Christianity teaches that when asked by Pilot about these charges that Yahusha remained silent implying he was God.  Yahusha did not reply to those charges because he had already provided a defense to the Jews and knew he must die at the hands of his brothers to save them.  The truth is not that difficult to understand when Scripture and the words of Yahusha are not taken out of context they were meant.  Yahusha did not claim to be Yahuah he claimed to be the son of Yahuah.  Yahusha was simply declaring a fact that Yahuah proclaimed of all of us: Psalm 82 6 I have said, Ye are (all) gods; and all of you are children of the most High. The Jews in authority at that time were trying to arrest Yahusha for blasphemy claiming that by saying he was the son of Yahuah was committing blasphemy.  They were implying the same thing Christians imply today that “son of Yahuah” means equal to Yahuah and Yahuah in the flesh.   Yahusha wasn’t buying it and defended himself very well against these charges.  He never defended them as Christians imply by saying he was Yahuah in the flesh. Yahusha responded to their claims of blasphemy below with my comments in blue parenthesis.  We see that Yahusha explained to the Jews who wanted to stone him for blasphemy that he used the term “son of God” in the same sense that Yahuah claimed all children of Israel were gods, the son of the Most High.  So Yahusha asked them “how is it blasphemy just because I refer to myself as the son of God when Yahuah said we all are?” John 10 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one (in mind, will, purpose, and spirit through marriage covenant).” 31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Yahusha said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?” 33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.” 34 Yahusha answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’? 35 If he called them (the Israelites) ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside— 36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? 37 Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. 38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in (covenant with) me, and I in (covenant with) the Father.” 39 Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp. Yahusha’s defense was simple.  He was accepting what Yahuah had declared in Psalm 82 and quoted that scripture back to the Jews.  He wasn’t saying OR implying he was God incarnate or Yahuah in the flesh, he was simply acknowledging a fact that pertains to ALL of us… Yahusha realized at that point that the “trap” they had laid for him was falsely accusing him of blasphemy by saying Yahusha implied he was Yahuah by using the term son of God.  Yahusha explained that he was not saying he was Yahuah.  He was acknowledging the fact that, as Yahuah said, he was a god and the son of Yahuah. The same thing said of King David, Solomon, and many others in scripture.  The same thing said of all those in The Yahushaic Covenant.  The answer is no, Yahusha did not commit blasphemy and no Yahusha never said he was God.  Both the Jews and the Christians today are bearing false witness against the Messiah.  Yahusha explained exactly what he meant. Next: Did Yahusha claim to be The Great I AM?

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