Shawn McCraney

McCraney’s perspective posits that Christianity’s anticipated Second Coming previously occurred around 70 C.E. at the Siege of Jerusalem; Yeshua was born, sacrificed, resurrected, and returned a generation later to rescue the faithful from the Destruction of Jerusalem. He teaches that Sin, Death, Satan, and Hell are fulfilled and done away with, leaving individuals in a new ecclesiological state that rejects all claims to institutional authority in God’s name.

McCraney proposes that God no longer relates to individuals through law, but dwells in all individuals, adapting to their specific circumstance, culture, religion or lack of religion. The single gauge of one’s relationship with God is the extent of agape love enacted: selfless, sacrificial, unconditional. This relationship cannot be determined by other individuals or institutions, and is a process of examination of the self over time.

McCraney understands God as a “perfect plural”: a perfect combination of masculine and feminine, or a “singular plural.” He rejects classical Trinitarianism as error delivered by the Council of Nicaea, teaching instead that the Spirit is God’s life-giving breath, Yeshua was God’s logos made flesh, and both are expressions of God rather than distinct co-equal beings across eternity. He teaches the tetragrammaton is pronounced YAHAVAH.