Elder Brandon J. Nero

On Tuesday, January 6th, 2026, at 2:00 PM (U.S. Central) / 7:00 PM (UK), Elder Brandon Nero hosts a live-streamed theological conversation with Dr. Marvin Sanguinetti, author of Patterns of Christological Categorisation: Oneness Pentecostalism and the Renewal of Jewish and Christian Monotheism.
This interview explores one of the most pressing and misunderstood questions in contemporary theology: how Christians articulate the relationship between God and Jesus while remaining faithful to Jewish monotheism.
Drawing from Second Temple Judaism, patristic theology, and modern Christological scholarship, Dr. Sanguinetti presents a fourfold framework—patterns of Christological categorisation—that maps how different traditions have understood person, nature, and divine action. Within this framework, Oneness Pentecostalism is examined not as a theological outlier, but as a coherent and academically viable model of Christological monotheism.
Topics include:
Christological Monotheism and its place in modern scholarship
The difference between generic and numerical identity
Why “person,” “nature,” and “action” matter in God-talk
How Oneness Pentecostalism compares with Binitarian and Classical Trinitarian models
Why better categories lead to better theology—and fewer false conflicts
This conversation is not a debate. It is a clarifying dialogue aimed at pastors, theologians, students, and serious believers who care about precision, history, and faithfulness in Christology.
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Question 1.

If John is consciously engaging the Logos concept through the lens of the Memra, and if the Memra itself is a reverential circumlocution (not a person) hypostasis, what are the conclusions for interpreting John’s Gospel?

The author acknowledges on page 163 that many modern scholars have moved away from the thesis that the Memra provides conceptual background for John’s Logos. Their shift, however, appears to be driven more by presuppositions shaped by later New Testament theological constructs than by a substantive analysis of the targumic evidence itself. In my judgment, this move is methodological rather than evidential, and it leaves the core question unexplored: Why set aside the very linguistic and theological environment in which John himself lived, prayed, and wrote?

Quotation from Page 162

“That the Memra of the Lord is merely a reverent circumlocution for ‘the Lord,’ another way of expressing the same thing and in no way a hypostasis, is now generally held by students of Judaism. As H. A. Wolfson says: ‘No scholar nowadays will entertain the view that it is either a real being or an intermediary.’”

—Martin McNamara, Targum and Testament Revisited

SBL Footnote:

1. Martin McNamara, Targum and Testament Revisited: Aramaic Paraphrases of the Hebrew Bible, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010), 162.

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Question 2.

Despite modern reluctance on this point, I maintain that the overall framework of John’s prologue is unmistakably sapiential in presentation. The imagery, rhythm, and conceptual scaffolding align far more naturally with Jewish Wisdom and Logos traditions — including the targumic Memra — than with later metaphysical developments imported from Greek philosophical categories. Do you agree, why or why not?

Quotation from Page 163–64

“Present-day scholars tend to reject the targumic Memra as a background to, or contributing factor towards, John’s doctrine of the Logos. This they prefer to see prepared in the prophetic word (dabar) and in the Wisdom literature…. Granted that the Memra of God and ‘the Lord’ is but another way of saying ‘God’ or ‘the Lord,’ it by no means follows that John was not influenced by targumic usage in his choice of Logos as a designation for Christ.”

—Martin McNamara, Targum and Testament Revisited

SBL Footnote:
2. McNamara, Targum and Testament Revisited, 163–64.

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Facts from Acts

Unfortunately, due to circumstances out of my control, I will have to reschedule the broadcast for Chapter 2 of the Book or Acts tomorrow at 7 PM. I apologize for the mix-up, but some recent events have been beyond my control.

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🔥 SYSTEM ACTIVATION ENGAGED — ACTS CHAPTER 2 🔥

Tomorrow at 7:00 PM, we’re going LIVE to break down Acts Chapter 2 — the moment Heaven hit “GO” and the Church came online in Holy Ghost power.

From the Promise to the Activation, this chapter shows us:
⚡ The sound from heaven
⚡ Tongues of fire
⚡ The first apostolic sermon
⚡ The command sequence of Acts 2:38
⚡ The launch of the original Apostolic operating system

If you’re hungry for revelation, renewal, and a return to Apostolic roots, you don’t want to miss this broadcast.

📅 TOMORROW — 7:00 PM (CST)
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Share this stream with someone hungry for truth.
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Avoid “Wizard Prophets” Like Bishop Bernard Jordan

Recently, I stumbled across a YouTube live session hosted by Bishop Bernard Jordan. He was conducting what he called a prophetic consultation, and immediately I noticed he was practicing his normal signature style of wand-less magic.

And honestly, at one point I had to stop and ask myself:

When did “prophetic” Pentecostal bishops start resembling something out of Harry Potter more than Pentecost?

Because what I was watching struck me far more as a professor lecturing at Hogwarts than a professor of the faith of Jesus Christ.

While he claimed to offer prophetic insight, he was leaning on astrology as his guiding tool. Now, I believe in the genuine prophetic gifts—but when the “word from the Lord” is being filtered through zodiac charts, that’s not revelation, that’s constellation divination.

That’s not prophecy.
That’s paganism.
That’s idolatry.

Trying to steer things back to Scripture, I quoted Acts 2:38, pointing to the biblical plan of salvation. Instead of engaging the Word, he pivoted straight to money and authority. So I responded with the apostolic rebuke:

“Your money perish with you.”
(Acts 8:20)

And yes—I told him he was a false prophet.

True to form, his moderator blocked me immediately so he could get the last word. Again, typical behavior for wizard-prophets: vanish in a puff of digital smoke the moment real discernment enters the chat.

Scripture gives us the framework:

“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you… saying, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ you shall not listen to that prophet.”
(Deuteronomy 13:1–3)

Astrology is another god.
Divination is another spirit.
And anyone guiding people in that direction—no matter what title they wear—must be avoided.

Stay anchored in the Word.
Don’t confuse wand-less magic with the Holy Ghost.
And don’t let theatrics replace truth.

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Technology touching different industries

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I am inviting all of my followers to give Faith Walkers Church a follow.This is a good Apostolic church that is growing and needs our support as they take part in filling the call of God for their ministry!

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Talking about sad News…

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