47While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him, 48but Jesus asked him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"
49When Jesus' followers saw what was going to happen, they said, "Lord, should we strike with our swords?" 50And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
51But Jesus answered, "No more of this!" And he touched the man's ear and healed him.
Luke 22:47-51 New International Version
Why would Jesus say he is the Son of Man, but then just a brief moment later proof he has the power of God, by healing a man's ear with only touch, after the ear was cut off.
Also, this is what the Bible says, that Jesus said he is the Son of Man, how many good Christians are going to tell me, no thats not what Jesus said. Want me to lie and say Im a Christian, just to make you feel good about making fun of stupidity
2006-07-07 13:43:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And by stupid I mean the people who are about to tell me this isn't what Jesus said, when I just quoted from the Bible
2006-07-07 13:44:03 · update #1
He had to be THE son of man because only the blood of a man without sin could purchase our salvation.
Christ is literally the word of god.When God speaks it lives.That is what was placed in Marys womb to be born as a man.This also how Christ is the son of God and still part of God.You can not separate yourself from your words,you are proving that well.
2006-07-07 13:49:01 · answer #1 · answered by Tommy G. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um, if healing makes him God... then when Elijah raised the little girl from the dead, that made Elijah God.... There's many instances in the Old Testament of people doing miracles just like what is given of Jesus in the New Test. That hardly makes a person God.
And Jesus (in the Bible) did say that his followers would go on to do Greater things than he did.... would that make them God too?
2006-07-07 14:12:19 · answer #2 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus, the man, was a living symbol that we are all Sons of God. When he uses the term Son of Man he is symbolically alerting us to our thoughts of separation from God. Son of God=Unified with God, Son of Man=Separated from God.
It is particularly interesting to note the context in which he uses this phrase: "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?" Jesus knew full well that he would be "turned in" by Judas so this question was not for Judas but for the witnesses therein. Could we rephrase this question to: "All of you who witness, are you betraying the separated ones with a kiss?"
According to the book "A Course in Miracles" the whole message of the Crucifixion can be summed up in a few words: Teach only love, for that is what you are.
Again teach only love, for that is what you are. You are love. If you are love, and you are also a son of God...and Love begets Love, then what is God? Love. If we understand Jesus' message then is makes sense to say that there was no betrayal except in the minds of the Sons of Men, the separated ones...the Sons of God, the ones unified in Love, know that Judas' kiss was the ultimate act of LOVE! For who else but the most loving devotee would go down in history as a "betrayer", when really he was Jesus' closes ally?
2006-07-07 14:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by luvisallthereis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well.....I don't know the bible....never read it. But because it has been re-written from 100's of different languages, by 1000's of different people through 100's of years.....it just might not be what Jesus said.
Read the book, 'Misquoting Jesus'. This was written by a methodist, someone who takes the bible literally word for word as the word of god. After studying the bible, history and learning the language the bible was original written in....he has discovered so many discrepancies that he is now an athiest.
But of course now that I've used the 'A' word, you likely won't read the book. Suite your blind self.
2006-07-07 13:57:45 · answer #4 · answered by send_felix_mail 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you check the beginning of the new testament, you will find that, yes, Jesus is the Son of God, because Mary was chosen to give birth to him and the Holy Spirit - the 3rd part of the Holy Trinity - descended upon her and made her pregnant - hence, He is also the Son of Man, because he is the Word made Flesh. Meaning he was born of a human, but come from God the Father. He was both, Son of Man and Son of God.
2006-07-07 17:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by da_impish_one 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because man or humanity is also God.
We are each an individuation of God, created of the same matter as God.
God is the formless, genderless, omnipresent, eternal energy source which is the process of life itself. Not a being, or an old guy with a long white beard and flowing robes sitting in a throne in some heaven in outer space somewhere.
Together we are the sum (son) total of God.
2006-07-07 13:53:39 · answer #6 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many names for Jesus, and you have to take them all into consideration when you are wanting to know him: Son of man, Son of God, Immanuel, Messiah, the Way, the Truth, the Life, the list goes on and on, and they are all true, but they all must be taken together. It's very important for us to realize that Jesus was both 100% man and 100% God. I know one can't understand that if you don't know Him personally, but it's the Truth, for Christ is the Truth. He reminds us that He was a Man because we need to know that He endured all the temptation in this world that we have to, and He overcame it. And through HIs Blood, we too can overcome it. And Jesus did not come to Earth to prove that man could keep God's laws, He was and is God. He came to Earth because "there is no other name by which man can be saved." He came because grace is the only way we can be sanctified, "not by works lest any man should boast. "
2006-07-07 13:51:44 · answer #7 · answered by auburn_eyes2005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to recall that Jesus was both wholly God and wholly human; this is, of course, outside my finite ability to comprehend, but then only a fool would expect the finite to fully comprehend the infinite.
To simplify the issue a bit... To function as an intermediate between God and Man, Jesus had to have both the human and the Divine natures; here, He demonstrates that He has both, quite clearly.
Now, there are more detailed and no doubt wiser answers than mine, but this one is both reasonably comprehensible and reasonably accurate.
Note that I've had to listen to folk who deny the deity of Christ--notably JW's--and I expect that we may hear from some of them here, too.
2006-07-07 13:51:47 · answer #8 · answered by gandalf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Tommy.. about Jesus;
YHVH was his Father, making him Son of God..
Mary was his mother making him Son of Man.
Angels are called sons of God, Adam was, and God will adopt all faithful Christians and they will become sons of God, by adoption, although human. Some of course will be changed to a spirit body.
Jesus at the time he was a man, did not have special powers, his power came from God, he said it was by means of God's finger/spirit/power, that he expelled the demons.
I do not want you to lie, ever. I do not understand about making us feel good about, 'making fun of stupidity'...could you elaborate??
The point of Jesus being a man was that he needed to be equal to Adam, a once perfect man, for an equal payment/ransom to be made for Adam and Eve's children, for adoption, through faith and forgiveness.
Best wishes.....me
2006-07-07 14:07:40 · answer #9 · answered by tina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said He was the Son of Man and He also said He was the Son of God. These terms showed that He was human and divine. He was true God and true Man.
2006-07-07 13:51:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋