SOURCES TO PROVE WHY JESUS CANT BE THE SON OF G-D (CHRISTIANS GOT IT ALL WRONG)
Tovia Singer’s Claims Fail Under Examination
1. "We do not need a mediator between us and God."
False. The Old Testament never presents unmediated access to יְהוָה. Divine holiness (קֹדֶשׁ) creates an ontological barrier requiring mediation. Direct encounter is lethal (Exodus 20:19; Deuteronomy 18:16). Moses functions as covenant mediator (בֵּין יְהוָה וּבֵינֵיכֶם, Deuteronomy 5:5), receiving revelation פֶּה אֶל־פֶּה (Numbers 12:6–8) and interceding (הִתְחַנֵּן) to avert judgment (Exodus 32–34). Priestly mediation is structurally embedded: only the high priest enters the קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים on Yom Kippur, performing כִּפֶּר to purge impurity (Leviticus 16). Prophetic mediation is instituted because Israel cannot endure direct revelation (פֶּן אָמוּת, Deuteronomy 18:16–17). Royal mediation extends divine rule (2 Samuel 7; Psalm 72). No OT text denies the necessity of mediation; the covenantal architecture is uniformly triadic: יְהוָה → Mediator → Israel.
2. "The innocent cannot die for the sins of the wicked.. the idea is opposed by the Hebrew Bible."
False.
The Hebrew Bible rejects judicial injustice (executing an innocent person instead of the guilty in civil law; Deuteronomy 24:16; 2 Kings 14:6). But it does not reject the broader theological principle of the innocent bearing consequences for the guilty. In fact, the Hebrew Bible affirms cultic substitution (Leviticus 4–5; Leviticus 16; Leviticus 7:11), vicarious bearing of iniquity (Leviticus 16:21–22; Isaiah 53:4, 11), and representative death (2 Samuel 21:1–14; Numbers 35:25, 28). Sacrificial victims must be תָּמִים (innocent, unblemished), and their death is explicitly said to purge the sins of the guilty. The Hebrew Bible prohibits punishing the innocent in court, but it affirms innocent substitution in atonement, purification, and representative suffering.
3. Singer's proof text:
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. (Ezekiel 18:20).
False. Ezekiel 18:20 addresses
civil justice, prohibiting courts from punishing an innocent person
in place of a guilty one; it does
not address cultic atonement or theological substitution. The Hebrew Bible consistently affirms
innocent cultic substitution (Leviticus 4–5; Leviticus 16; Leviticus 17:11),
vicarious bearing of iniquity (Leviticus 16:22; Isaiah 53:4, 11), and
representative death (2 Samuel 21; Numbers 35:25, 28). Singer’s use of Ezekiel 18:20 is therefore a
category error, applying a civil‑law prohibition to domains—atonement, purification, representation—that the text does not regulate.
4. "
The Bible does not say that all men are evil."
Singer: "God called Abraham 'my friend' Genesis 26:5.God called Daniel "beloved".. where in the Bible does it say that all men are evil? When Abraham, as an example, was a righteous person. Hezekiah, we're told in 2 Kings 18:4, was the greatest king that ever lived and ever would live. Daniel was loyal to God. Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah went into a fiery furnace for the Lord.. Daniel was loyal to God. Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah went into a fiery furnace for the Lord.."
False. Scripture’s universal anthropology identifies all humans as fallen. Terms such as righteous and beloved applied to figures like Moses, Daniel, and Hezekiah do not negate the universal condition of human fallenness. In biblical usage, "righteous" is a covenantal and evidential designation: it marks those whose lives exhibit sustained alignment with God’s revealed will. It is relational rather than intrinsic, descriptive rather than absolute. Their righteousness reflects covenant fidelity under divine initiative, not exemption from human corruption. Each of these figures is explicitly shown to sin: Moses: anger, disobedience at Meribah (Numbers 20:1-13); Daniel: confesses corporate and personal sin (Daniel 9:20); Hezekiah: pride, failure in the Babylonian envoy episode (2 Kings 20:12-19; Isaiah 39:1-8). Biblically, humanity is universally fallen. This is an ontological statement about the human condition.
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. (Ecclesiastes 7:20).
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead. (Ecclesiastes 9:3).
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9).
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 7:20).
..as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” (Romans 3:10–12 cf. Psalm 14:1–7; Psalm 53:1–6; Isaiah 59:1–17).
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. (John:5:46).
Jesus’ statement in John 5:46 identifies the underlying source of opposition to His claims: a refusal to grasp what Moses actually testified. The Pentateuch contains explicit prophecy—the promised Prophet like Moses to whom the people must listen (Deuteronomy 18:15–19; Acts 3:22–23)—and sustained typological anticipation of Christ in the seed who would crush the serpent (Genesis 3:15), the substitutionary pattern in Isaac (Genesis 22:8–14), the Passover lamb whose blood secures deliverance (Exodus 12:5–13; 1 Corinthians 5:7), and the bronze serpent lifted up for healing (Numbers 21:8–9; John 3:14–15). Typology and prophecy converge to identify Jesus as the Messiah anticipated from the beginning (Hebrews 3:1–6; 10:1), and a deeper, accurate reading of Moses necessarily leads to recognition of Jesus as the promised Redeemer—the true fulfillment of the woman’s seed.
Lange: [For of me he wrote, περὶγὰρἐμοῦ—emphatically placed first—ἐκεῖνοςἔγραψεν.—Moses wrote of Christ, as the seed of the woman that shall bruise the serpent’s head (Gen. 3), as the seed of Abraham by which all the nations of the earth shall be blessed (Gen. 12. ff.), as the Shiloh unto whom shall be the gathering of the people (Gen. 49), as the Star out of Jacob, and the Sceptre that shall rise out of Israel (Numb. 24:17), as the great Prophet whom God will raise up, and unto whom the Jews should hearken (Deut. 18). Moreover, the moral law of Moses, by revealing the holy will of God and setting up a standard of human righteousness in conformity with that will, awakens a knowledge of sin and guilt (Rom. 3:20; 7:7), and thus serves as a school-master to bring us to Christ (Gal. 3:24). Finally, the ritual law and all the ceremonies of Mosaic worship were typical of the Christian dispensation (Col. 2:17), as the healing serpent in the wilderness pointed to Christ on the cross (Numb. 21:9; John 3:14). This is a most important testimony, from the unerring mouth of Christ, to the Messianic character and aim of the whole Mosaic dispensation, and to the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch. Comp. Luke 24:44; Rom. 10:5.—P. S.]1