Craig Ledbetter

Bible believing Baptist church planting Pastor of the Bible Baptist Church of Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland

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As an Ex-Muslim, let me explain a rabbinic mystery that points straight at the Trinity I used to mock.

The most important prayer in Judaism is the Shema: “Hear O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one.” Deuteronomy 6:4.

I used to quote this AGAINST Christians. “See? God is ONE!”

But here’s what I didn’t know. The Hebrew word for “one” there is echad.

And echad isn’t always a solitary one. When the Bible says a man and wife become “one flesh” — that’s echad. Genesis 2:24. Two becoming a unity.

When the people acted “as one man” — echad. A unified many.

There’s a different Hebrew word for absolute, solitary oneness — yachid.

And God did NOT use it in the Shema.

He chose echad. Compound unity. Plural oneness.

So it flipped on me…

The verse I used to disprove the Trinity was secretly the door to it.

And in Genesis, God says “Let US make man in OUR image.” Genesis 1:26. Us. Our. From the very first chapter.

I was using the oneness of God to fight the Gospel.

But His oneness was never the flat, solitary kind.

It was always rich enough to hold a Father, a Son, and a Spirit.

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Coolest use of a drone

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When I was Muslim, I said it with confidence: “Jesus never said ‘I am God.’ Show me the verse where He says those exact words.”

I thought if the words weren’t there, the claim wasn’t there.

Then somebody asked me a question I couldn’t shake:

If a man stood in front of you and said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” — using the exact name God gave Himself at the burning bush — what is he claiming? John 8:58.

The crowd that heard it understood instantly. They picked up stones to kill Him for blasphemy. John 8:59.

You don’t stone a man for being a good teacher.

He forgave sins, which only God can do. He accepted worship, which every prophet refused.

He said, “If you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father.” John 14:9.

I wanted the four words “I am God.”

But He did something harder to dismiss.

He talked and acted like God in every way that counted, and let His enemies tell you exactly how they understood it.

They didn’t try to kill Him for a metaphor.

They killed Him because He proved He would change this world.

[Craig Ledbetter @craigledbetter]

The demons have just gotten angrier!

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As an Ex-Muslim, let me explain a Jewish tradition about the Messiah that most people have never heard.

The rabbis had a problem. Their Scriptures described two completely different Messiahs.

One: a suffering servant, despised, pierced, “led like a lamb to the slaughter,” dying for the sins of the people. Isaiah 53.

The other: a conquering king, ruling the nations, reigning forever in glory. Daniel 7.

These two pictures wouldn’t fit together. So some rabbis invented a solution: there must be TWO Messiahs.

They called them “Messiah ben Joseph” — the one who suffers and dies — and “Messiah ben David” — the one who conquers and reigns.

Two Messiahs, because they couldn’t imagine how one person could both die in shame AND reign in glory.

You know what’s shocking?

There was never supposed to be two.

It’s one Messiah. Two comings.

He came first as the suffering servant, ben Joseph, pierced for our sins. He’s coming again as the conquering king, ben David, to reign forever.

The rabbis split Him in half because they couldn’t see the gap between the cross and the crown.

Jesus is both. The Lamb who was slain AND the Lion who returns.

One Messiah. He just refused to fit in one visit

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He’s thankful to be deaf because the first voice he will ever hear will be Jesus in heaven.

If you’re struggling with not being healed please watch this and know that God is perfect in his plans.

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'This is going to be terrifying for parents!'

Barrister Dennis Kavanagh warns that Labour's Conversion Practices Bill could see parents, teachers, and doctors jailed for up to five years if they do not use pronouns or or new names for LGBT people.

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We stopped disciplining children and started diagnosing them.

Now we have a country full of adults who think everything is someone else's fault.

Tell me I’m wrong.

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Just your periodic reminder that God made our Solar System a stunner.

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The days when we tried to convince the world that we had the right to defend ourselves ended on October 7.

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I don't know who she is but she's amazing.

[Craig Ledbetter @craigledbetter]

The Jewish nation is regularly judged and chastised by God, and still are the apple of God‘s eye! Don’t touch them with your own Personal condemnation.
“For thus saith the LORD of hosts; … for he that toucheth you [Jerusalem] toucheth the apple of his eye.” (Zechariah 2:8)

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When I was Muslim, I knew the story in Surah 2.

King Saul leads his army out, God tests them at a river — don’t drink, or you’re not with me — and only a few pass. Then they fight, and David kills Goliath. Surah 2:249-251.

Clean story. Until you open the Bible and find that the river test isn’t Saul’s at all.

It’s Gideon’s. Judges 7.

God tells Gideon his army is too big. So he tests them at the water. The men who lap like a dog go one way, the men who kneel go another. God whittles 32,000 men down to 300, so Israel can’t brag that they won by their own strength.

That’s the test. And it belongs to GIDEON. A judge. About 150 years BEFORE Saul was ever king.

You know what shook me?

The Quran took Gideon’s water test, pinned it on Saul, and then stitched the David and Goliath battle onto the end of it.

Two separate stories, from two different centuries, fused into one.

It’s the exact same thing the Quran does with Moses and Jacob. Take a detail from one hero, glue it onto another, compress the timeline.

I used to say the Bible mixed things up.

But the Bible keeps Gideon and Saul as two distinct men, 150 years apart, with two distinct stories.

It’s the later book that merged them.
And here’s what I couldn’t ignore.

Gideon’s 300 won so that no one could boast. The whole point was: the victory is God’s, not yours.

That’s the Gospel in advance. You don’t win by your strength. You win by His.

“Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord.” Zechariah 4:6.

The Bible kept the story straight because the story was going somewhere.

It was going to a cross, where God won the victory alone, so no one could ever boast they saved themselves.

[Craig Ledbetter @craigledbetter]

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