Jesus, was he a Prophet, the Messiah, a Myth or just a madman?

Answer 1

Who do you say that I AM?

Of course, the first question that comes to mind after hearing this,
is does it make any difference? One might argue that we all worship
the same God but with different names be it Allah, Jehovah, Buddha and
many other names for gods. We will see here that it DOES make a
difference.

John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your
sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Compare this with:

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is
none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Thus we see that it is only through JESUS that we can obtain eternal
life...BUT it has to be the same JESUS of the Bible.

We are told there will be many antichrist, many often doing signs and
wonders:

Matthew 24:24
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall
shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible,
they shall deceive the very elect.


Lets take a few moments to see who this man..JESUS really is..or is
NOT!

Many have declared Jesus to be an angle.

Hebrews 1
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by
inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a
Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world,
he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and
his ministers a flame of fire.
8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and
ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.


Many have declared Jesus to just a prophet

Hebrews 1
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past
unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of
his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when
he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high.


Many have declared Jesus to be just a man

Colossians 1
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every
creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by
him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the
beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might
have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;


Philippians 2
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal
with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of
a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.



The BIBLE declares JESUS to be....GOD!

Actually, we can see that Jesus is indeed God from the above verses
but there are so many others. Lets explore a few more of the reasons
from God's Word.

Jesus is called GOD!

Isaiah 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his
redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and
beside me there is no God.

To see this clearly, lets look at another translation:

Darby Translation

Isaiah 44:6 Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his
Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I [am] the first, and I [am] the last,
and beside me there is no God

American Standard Version

Isaiah 44:6 Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his
Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and
besides me there is no God

The redeemer is none other then Jesus and we can see here that He is
called....Jehovah.

Thomas declared it:

John 20:28 Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

It has been contended that Thomas was using a figure of speech..which
in reality would mean that Thomas used God's name in vain but lets
look at how Jesus responded to this declaration:

29 Jesus saith unto him, Because thou hast seen me, thou hast
believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Jesus accepted this...but He went on to tell us that it is more
blessed to believe without having to see. After all, Hebrews 11:6
tells us "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he
that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder
of them that diligently seek him."


Lets look at a few other comparisons to see who Jesus is:

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.

Compare to:

John 1:41 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth.

Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead
bodily. (compare to Colossians 1:15-19 above)

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the
flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed
the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Zechariah 14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is
left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up
from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep
the feast of tabernacles.

Compare to

John 1:49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art
the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

1 Timothy 6:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed
and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced,
and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and
shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his
firstborn.

Zechariah 11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my
price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty
pieces of silver.

At this time, I urge each of you to get your Bible and turn to these
verse...remember your basic English and look for the SUBJECT of these
verses..see Who was priced at 30 pieces of silver...and who was
pierced thus showing who shed His blood.

GOD'S GLORY:

God said HE will not share His glory with any other:

Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not
give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Yes we see Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also
the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train
filled the temple.

referred to in John 12:41: John 12:41 These things said Esaias,
when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

CREATION:

Isaiah 44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed
thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that
stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth
by myself;

Compare to:

John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any
thing made that was made.

Colossians 1
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every
creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by
him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the
beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might
have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;



BOTH ARE THE FIRST AND LAST

Isaiah 41:4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations
from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

Compare with

Revelation 1:11
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou
seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are
in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto
Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

Revelation 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And
he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the
first and the last:

In case we think this is referring to GOD..go on to the next verse:

18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

BOTH ARE THE ALPHA AND OMEGA

Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,
saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the
Almighty.

lets look at the verse before this one..verse 7:

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they
also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail
because of him. Even so, Amen.


THE PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD WHO JESUS SAID HE WAS:

This is another primary way to understand what scripture is
saying..what did those who heard it understand it to mean? Remember,
these people could hear the tone of voice and see the body language
which helps us to understand what is said. Lets look at a few
examples of the statements of Jesus Christ and follow that with what
the listeners understood:

John 10:30 I and my Father are one.

results in verse 31:

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

WHY? verse 33: The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we
stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a
man, makest thyself God.

Now some contend that Jesus denied being God in this next statement
found in verse 34: Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your
law, I said, Ye are gods? 35 If he called them gods, unto whom the
word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

However, rather then denying it...HE reaffirmed it as we can see by
the listeners reactions in verse 39 Therefore they sought again to
take him: but he escaped out of their hand,


John 8
58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before
Abraham was, I am.

Results:

59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself,
and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so
passed by.

Now to understand the above, we need to go back to Exodus 3:14 where
God answered Moses when Moses asked who should he say sent him.

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. This is
a name reserved for ONLY God, yet Jesus applied it to himself.

UNCHANGEABLE:

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son
of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it?
or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of
Jacob are not consumed.

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for
ever.

The Witness of His Spirit

1 John 4
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Many people that do not believe in God will state that Jesus did exist. There is secular history to this fact. If they do not believe God exist, how can they know "the Spirit of God"? I contend that this means that it has to be the Holy Spirit that convicts us that Jesus is indeed God in the Flesh.

The Bible declares Jesus is the mighty God.

Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Compare this with Isaiah 10:21: The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

and Jeremiah 32:18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,


Now remember, in Isaiah 44:6 Jesus is called the LORD Of Host, or the Jehovah of hosts



ARGUMENTS STATING HE IS NOT GOD:

God is omniscient or all knowing...Some contend that Jesus is not all
knowing in that He himself said He did not know the day or the hour
of the end of the ages:

Matthew 24
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass
away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of
heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the
Son of man be.

To answer this, we refer to:

Philippians 2
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal
with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of
a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Jesus voluntarily took the form of a human being and HE set aside all of His
GODHOOD to become a man just as you and I with only one exception, HE
was not born with a sin nature. It was as a man that Jesus did not
know the time of the end of the ages.

Christ was in subjection to the Father

John 5:9 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I
say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth
the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the
Son likewise

Many use this verse to declare that Jesus can not be equal with GOD
as HE was subject to GOD. There are a few flaws with this argument.

Mary and Joseph took the young Jesus to the temple when He was 12
thus we read in Luke 2:51 "And he went down with them, and came to
Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these
sayings in her heart."

The question then is..Was Mary and Joseph greater then Jesus?

The answer...Jesus was a CHILD so this was a conditional
subjection...just as any child is to obey their parents until they
grow up and go on their own. JESUS was on Earth as a HUMAN
BEING..just as you and I so HIS subjection to the Father at that time
was based upon that fact. Read Philippians 2:5-8 again and focus on
this part: "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men"


He was the first born thus was created

Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
of every creature:

Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren

First born does not always indicate birth order. It is a legal term
which shows that Jesus has a legal right to the throne of David.

We can see this with David as David was declared to be the first born
but according to scripture he was not born first.

Psalm 89:27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the
kings of the earth (vs 20 shows this refers to David)

1 Chronicles 2:13 And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab going on to
vs 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:

Again the first born indicates the right to the throne, not the order
of birth.

We have also seen this in Genesis 25:33 When Esau sold his irthright


He the beginning of God's creation.

Some use Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the
Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true
witness, the beginning of the creation of God; as proof that Jesus
was the first thing created. But is this what it means?

If we compare Scripture with Scripture we find it can not mean that
as Micah 5:2 states: "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be
little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come
forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have
been from of old, from everlasting."

Psalm 104
24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made
them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping
innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made
to play therein.
27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat
in due season.


There is so much more we can add to this..more comparisons of Scripture with Scripture showing the same name and the same attributes but we will be adding this. For now, let us go to the 2nd most important question you will ever answer through all eternity.

WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH JESUS?

Check the first link below.

Answer 2

Jesus Christ was the prophet that was foretold by those holy men before him and is the Messiah for mankind.

I testify to all that He is no myth, that He lives and is at the right side of God the Father. Through Him, we may return to the Father provided we obey the commandments given us.

Answer 3

The Messiah

Answer 4

Depends on who you ask. If you were a member of the social and religious auhtority back when he lived, he was a considerable threat, perhaps even a dissident or revolutionary.

I will always see him as a martyr to religious liberation. This was a man who gave up his life in order to reveal how corrupt the current religious authorities of the time had become. Meanwhile he taught us how to establish a personal relationship with the Father.

Answer 5

Great question!

Why did Jesus go to Synagogue if he wasn't a Jew?

What is a soul? I know what a sole is.

"the" Bible? No such thing. Many Bibles, all different.


Please consider these tidbits:

Jews for Jesus = Vegetarians for Hamburgers

God? He or She?

Church? Christianity? Jesus? Dying?

What is the Imacculate Conception supposed to mean?

Does Imacculate Conception have anything to do with "VIRGIN BIRTH"?

Google Imacculate Conception and learn that is NOT.

What else do you falsely believe?

Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .

If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.

Can Gods die?

If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?

Did Jesus give up Saturday for us?

No Eternal sacrifice, big deal for a day!

If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.

If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!

Life after death is like virginity after childbirth.

If the flesh of Jesus died, what was seen walking and talking on Sunday?

If you believe this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to believe it too to validate you.

Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.

Believing and not thinking is like choosing to be lost.

P.S.


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"Inter faeces et urinam nascimur" St. Augustine (be humble)

Answer 6

Understand that Messiah means "Annointed One" Yes, he was a Messiah. He was a member of the House of David, which made him Hebrew Royalty, and he was annointed by his wife, Mary of Bethany, with oil of spikenard, in preparation for him to assume the throne of the Hebrews. The Romans kind of euchered him on that and he returned to the Orthodox community at Qumran.

Answer 7

The be conscious 'Christ', is as you're saying, the anointed one. by some ability Mohammed appeared to have ignored the completed element of God's plan and purpose. our lord god sent His son so as that he could heal, carry forth the Gospel, be that acceptable sacrifice for our sins, and in his Father's stable time return to the earth as that anointed King. Prophecies in the previous testomony practice that this could ensue. the hot testomony endorses it, how could desire to everybody leave out it? yet they do constantly, it is so unhappy and as a result human beings get given fairly the incorrect recommendations from their non secular leaders. A extra thorough learn of the Bible scriptures is so needed if human beings are going to be waiting to comprehend God's grants of a king in Zion in the arriving kingdom. in the event that they do no longer comprehend with reference to the ensures how can they please God by using accepting His grace and looking out forward to the arriving kingdom?

Answer 8

THE MESSIAH.

JESUS/THE GOD!

1 GOD became a man !
2 HE was perfect in all ways !
3 HE was seen by angels as HE was
originally (THE GOD), and as a man !
4 HE taught the non Jewish ( as well as many Jews) !
5 HIS teachings were (and are) believed by MANY people !
6 HE returned to HIS place - we call that place heaven !

This is The Entire Story required to become
A TRUE CHRISTIAN.

Answer 9

Jesus is the Son of God. He was sent to earth for the forgiveness of my sins and yours. Jesus is also the great Intercessor who goes to God on my behalf and yours.
Thank You Jesus

Answer 10

A great mystic teacher whose story was continually exaggerated until the point of seeming supernatural

Answer 11

a prophet yes, the messiah, the jewish people dont believe so