JESUS CLAIMS TO BE GOD:
During Christ's trial, the chief priests asked Him point blank, "Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God." And He said,
"I am." (Mark 14:60-62)
"Yes, it is as you say." (Matt. 26: 63-65)
"You are right in saying I am." (Luke 22:67-70)
In John's gospel, he recounts Jesus' interview with Pontius Pilate (John 18:33-37). Pilate wanted to know if He were the King of the Jews. Jesus then talked about how His kingdom was not of this world. Pilate said, "You are a king, then!" Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king..." The truth is, he is King of the whole universe.
John 4:25-26. This is where the Samaritan woman, whom Jesus went to meet at the well, gets into a discussion of "living water" with Jesus. He pinpoints her sinful lifestyle (knowledge He would not have had as a mere human passerby), then He admits that He is the long-awaited Messiah: "I who speak to you am He."
John 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
Exodus 3, where Moses encounters God in the burning bush. God tells Moses that he is the one He has chosen to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. Moses says to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me 'What is His name?' Then what shall I tell them?" God replies to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" God has said that His own name, His personal name, is "I AM."
John 8:56-58. Jesus is talking to the unbelieving Jews. "Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing My day; he saw it and was glad." "You are not yet 50 years old," they said to Him, "and you have seen Abraham?" "I tell you the truth," Jesus announced, "before Abraham was, I AM!" Jesus was the great I AM from before the beginning of time; He existed before Abraham ever was. He is claiming here to be the I AM of the Old Testament. Verse 59 says the Jews picked up stones to stone Him, but the Lord Jesus slipped away. The reason they wanted to stone Him was because stoning was the death penalty for blasphemy. He was claiming to be Yahweh--Jehovah--Almighty God--I AM.
John 8:24. "I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I AM, you will indeed die in your sins."
John 14:7-10 [7] If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." [8] Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us." [9] Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, `Show us the Father'? [10] Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
The really foolish thing that people often say about Him is: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon, or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come away with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. The fact is, He IS God. He was and is the Messiah.
WHY DID HE SAY MY GOD:
When Jesus was on the cross, He quoted Psalm 22 (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34). This was a psalm of David, but it was a Messianic prophecy as well. If you read the entire psalm, you see the remarkable predictions by David. So, one of the reasons He called God "my God" is that is what the psalm said.
WHY DID HE SAY, MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAS THOU FORSAKEN ME:
“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). Here, Jesus was expressing His feelings of abandonment as God placed the sins of the world on Him – and because of that had to “turn away” from Jesus. As Jesus was feeling that weight of sin, He was feeling separated from God for the only time in all of eternity. It was at this time that 2 Corinthians 5:21 occurred, “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus became sin for us, so He felt loneliness and abandonment - separation from God.
Now, stop the lying.
http://planttel.net/~meharris1/mikescorner.html
2006-10-04 02:36:04
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answered by green93lx 4
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He was God in the form of man. He had to do that so He could feel our pain and know what temptations people went through. He had to be human to die, and shed blood. You realize God is 3 parts, Father, Son(Jesus), and Spirit(or Holy Ghost)? I read a great book for kids explaining God like an apple. An apple has a core, a skin, and fruit inside. Those 3 parts make an apple, not three different things. Understand? I hope so.
2006-10-04 02:11:55
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answered by nada 3
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First of all Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit of God, not of the seed of natural man.
Secondly, in John 14:5-12, Jesus says this to His disciples:
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you really knew Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him."
Philip said, "Lord show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
Jesus answered: "Don't you know Me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in Me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in Me, who is doing His work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves."
Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit of God and to a virgin, a woman who was from the lineage of the House of David. She was fully human. So, while on this earth, He was fully human and fully God. He prayed as a man who honored God as His Father and He prays for us because He is the mediator between God and men as the scripture states in I Timothy 2:5.
2006-10-04 02:41:00
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answered by Songbird 3
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What?
Jesus said, If you have seen me-you have seen the father also.
Jesus is God- God is Jesus - Holy Spirit is Jesus and God..
One and the same.
Like Godshead. All three make up the trinity.
Jesus was God incarnate in man form- the purpose to die on the cross.
Jesus was also divine then as now.
He prayed to the Father God because they were spearated into different forms-
God was separated from himself as Jesus.
You have water:
water can be steam-liquid or solid ice.
Still h2o
egg you can have shell-yolk or egg white.
3 parts still an egg.
Remove shel you still have egg.
Jesus walked earth as physical being even in Old Testament at various times. Which means God walked earth.
The Holy Spirit was there also just as today the Holy Spirit within us is Jesus yet its a separate being.
So Jesus and God are in Heaven while the Holy Spirit in now working on earth. to draw us nigh to Christ.
You can see your reflection in a mirror. Its you yet its not life-
like you see your shadow but its not life.
2006-10-04 02:16:15
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answered by cork 7
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"In the beginning was the Word (Jesus), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God"
"The same was in the beginning with God"
"All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made." John 1:1-3
Jesus was present at creation as the second part of the Trinity. He created all things. Jesus also said He is the Alpha and Omega: The First and the Last. I hope you do not think that Jesus did not exist before His birth in human form to the virgin Mary.
"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one." 1 John 5:7
Here the Trinity is perfectly explained.
"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent (Satan) beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
"For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might bear with him." 2 Corinthians 11:3 and 4
Here the Bible explains the danger of false teachers or prophets teaching about a different gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Any other version of the gospel of Jesus Christ is from Satan to deceive people from the truth.
"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." Colossians 2:8
Here it explains the difficulty the carnal mind has understanding the ways of our Lord. "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 14:12
Here is an open invitation to any who will receive it:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
"He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."
"For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."
"But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."
John 3:16-21
2006-10-04 05:06:41
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answered by Not perfect, just forgiven 5
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The belief that Christ is God comes from Roman teaching, but do not keep with Bible scriptures. As the Word, the most he is ever referred to is a mighty god, which is one who is created and receives its power from an Almighty God. He is never referred to as LORD, but only as Lord. In the oldest scrolls, LORD is spelled YHWH. Yes, they replaced God's name with LORD so that should the Bible get dropped, dirt will not get on God's name and defile it. The most common scripture used is the one is John, which is usually translated as the "Word is God" rather than the "Word is a god." The Apostle John used four different Greek spellings for the work god, but he never used the same spelling for Almighty God that he used for the Word. He did use the same spelling for the word god, whenever he referred to the Word (Christ), Satan, or men thinking themselves to be a god. If the Word is God, than so is Satan and humans.
God has always clearly said what he means in his scriptures. Anything else is saying that we know what God is thinking, thus we must be equal to him. Moses made the mistake of thinking he knew what God thought about something, and it cost him being able to enter the Promise Land.
2006-10-04 02:18:09
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answered by Anonymous
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I and my Father are one.John 10:30. When Jesus said this Jewish leaders that heard him picked up stones to kill him.Jesus asked for what good work He had shown was He being stoned for. The Jews answered We are not stoning you for these miracles, but for Blasphemy,because you,a mere man,claim to be God. They heard him, why can't we.Some say He was just a moral prophet. To believe this we must also believe he was insane because He did say He is God.As far as praying,He was showing us how to pray. Jesus and God are one. Bible says so!
2006-10-04 03:08:45
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answered by rebecca 2
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You are correct in your statement that Jesus is not God. Jesus is the SON of God. He never claimed to be God. However, as the son of God, he was sent here for a reason, and he deserves our respect. I am going to include a link to an article that discusses from the Bible who Jesus really is. I think you will find it enlightening.
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20050422/article_01.htm
2006-10-04 02:25:12
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answered by izofblue37 5
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There is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Sprite. A Holy Trinity
2006-10-04 02:09:23
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answered by Eldude 6
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your doubt is genuine. every human beings' inborn desire is to believe in supernatural things. this gives us a hope that our dreams may come true. we are afraid of death. so we find refuge in heavens. this is why a humanist named jesus christ was portrayed as the son of god. same is the case with lord buddha, he was against worshipping human gods and now he himself is being worshipped by millions. so it is our desire to believe the supernaturals that made jesus god.
2006-10-04 02:24:08
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answered by goutham112 2
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