2006-10-19 09:12:22 · 9 answers · asked by sara2005_unique 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Many Christians do but another perspective is that Christ a perfect reflection of God and His attribute but not God in the flesh. There are a series of quotes that would suggest the Jesus and God might be one:
John 14:9 - "He who has seen Me has seen the Father."
John 10:30 - "I and My Father are one."
John 14:11 - "I am in the Father and the Father in Me."
However, the concept of His Holiness the Christ and God being one does not explain other quotes in the Bible like:
John 14:28 - "I am going to the Father, for My Father is greater than I."
John 5:30 - "I can of Mine own self do nothing...not My own will, but the will of the Father which has sent Me.
John 1:18 - "No one has see God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared him."
If Jesus and God were one then the second series of quotes could not be explained.
One way to reconcile the quotes is to think of Jesus the Christ as a perfect reflection of God - the perfect image in every way. If God is like a Sun and Jesus a perfect mirror facing the Sun then when you look at the Sun and the mirror you see the same thing - the perfect image of the Sun. That does not mean the Sun descends into the mirror or that the mirror is made of the same substance as the Sun. However, for all intends and purposes They are One.
Is this concept supported at all in the Bible? There are some quotes that use this same concept.
Col 1:15 - "Who (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God..."
Heb 1:1-3 - "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 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; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person..."
2 Cor 4:4 "...lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."
That's it. Take care and great question.
2006-10-19 09:27:08 · answer #1 · answered by LivingDownSouth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True Christians do not believe that Jesus is God. The Bible does not support such a thought, although many people think it does. If Jesus is God, why did he direct his disciples to pray to someone other than himself? See Matt. 6:9. If Jesus is God, he would already always possessed authority over heaven and earth, right? Then why did he say that authority was GIVEN to him? See Matt. 28:18. If Jesus is God, why would Satan tempt him? See Luke 4:2-13. Can ANYONE tempt God? Of course not! And one final question: If Jesus is God, why does John 1:18 say that "no man has seen God at ANY TIME"? So, no true Christian will accept the false teaching that Jesus is God.
2006-10-19 16:58:01 · answer #2 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christians believe that Jesus was/is 100% God as well as being 100% man at the same time. This is fundamental to believing the gospel, and the Bible supports this contention.
2006-10-19 16:14:44 · answer #3 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Jesus walked the earth in the flesh he was both God and man. This is the basis of Christian belief.
2006-10-19 16:17:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most take the word of their pastors instead of studying for themselves. God is Jehovah, God the Father, the Father and God of Jesus Christ. Jesus is and has been since before the creation, the only Begotten Son of God, He is Not Jehovah, His name is Michael. I know "Michael the archangel", Arch means 'the leader of', so archangel means 'the leader of the angels'. It does NOT mean that the archangel is an angel Himself, only that He is their leader. Michael was sent by God to become one of us in every way, and to show us that with complete dependence upon God We Can live a totally sinless life. In Jesus was the God head expressed bodily, that means that God was in His Son just as His Son is in us that are the children of God, and that we are in Jesus and in God as they are in us. Some believe that just because God was in His Son, that makes the Son God, well if that is so, then that would make me both the Son and God. As I am nether then that belief is not Scriptural. Sorry.
2006-10-19 16:32:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
When Jehovah God took on the Human and made that Human Divine - God is now God and Man.
2006-10-19 16:15:18 · answer #6 · answered by WhyNotAskDonnieandMarie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is a man that is pure of sin and he died and went to heaven to sit on the right hand side of the Father (God).
2006-10-19 16:14:52 · answer #7 · answered by swimgirl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i believe Jesus was fully man and at the same time fully God
2006-10-19 16:15:56 · answer #8 · answered by Lost Angel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep :)
2006-10-19 16:35:22 · answer #9 · answered by J-me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋