If Jesus is God then why when the devil tried to tempt him Jesus answered:
"Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only'"
Instead of “Worship ME your GOD”?
2007-01-13 08:49:12 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, my guess would be that he was quoting a scriptural reference, and he didn't want to editorialize.
2007-01-13 08:57:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Satan was one of Jehovah’s angelic son’s.
One of his duties was the responsibly was to watch earth and its first inhabitants.
In Ezekiel, Satan is also described as someone as beautify as precious gems.
Satan, having once been perfect and deflected, or sinned, was no longer someone in good standing with Jehovah.
This account was Satan requesting Jesus to worship him. Jesus could not. If he did, mankind would have had no hope. But Jesus recognize Satan as the ruler of this world, someone alienated from Jehovah, therefore, Jesus was submitting himself to Jehovah and letting Jehovah take care of Satan.
Also, there in Genesis 3:15, 16, you see the very first prophecy mention in the bible.
The first, Jesus being bruised in the heel, happened in 33 CE when he died on the Stake. Jesus bruising of Satan in the head will come very shortly.
2007-01-13 17:38:50 · answer #2 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you'll notice, Jesus never referred to Himself as God in the first person. Unless you take the "I AM" statements to be such, and I do. It's the hypostatic union, God in three persons. Christ came not as a reigning Lord, but a suffering servant to show us the way to the Father. He is our example, fully God and fully man. But He is no longer suffering, but sits in majesty at God's right hand. But if you insist on understanding an infinite God with a finite brain before you believe, well, just do the math. You can't put the ocean in a coke bottle, but you can receive an earnest.
2007-01-13 17:00:08 · answer #3 · answered by Karen 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is not God. Jesus is the son of God. An extention of the essence if you will. The fact is that Jesus was human, and a Godly being. He was to grow up among temptation and sin to show that you can still be pure and and free of sin in this world. Merely human, but the chosen son of God.
2007-01-13 16:57:20 · answer #4 · answered by Catalyst 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jesus is The Second member of The God head and fully God but fully man, and coming in the stead of Adam, He was to live a perfect life, born human although He was and IS fully God as Hebrews 13:8 says Jesus has been here FOREVER, never has He not been here, The Father in Heb 1:5-9 address Him as God, and He Jesus in Luke 5:20-24 for gave sins ONLY GOD can do that, but in the scence He was Human and came to live in YOUR place and pay a debt He did not owe because YOU owed a debt YOU could not pay He was fully depentend upon His Father and lived as our example and the ONLY example God offeres as and example of How to live a perfect life not some pastor or any other human, hay learn much more free on line bible lessons www.itiswritten.com bible questions www.bibleinfo.com talk to me also wgr88@yahoo.com
2007-01-13 17:03:28 · answer #5 · answered by wgr88 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because Jesus did not come to the earth at that time as God, He came as the Savior of mankind
2007-01-13 16:56:09 · answer #6 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He is a part of God but at the time he was in human form. Jesus was showing us an example of how all christians should be
2007-01-13 16:56:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Good argument! Jesus is NOT God.
2007-01-13 17:24:42 · answer #8 · answered by bethybug 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is the son of God, a lot of religions mistakenly think they are one in the same.
2007-01-13 16:59:51 · answer #9 · answered by momofatsc 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You relize how much chaotic and killing would go on if Jesus said yeah, I am God. I can worship myself and save myself from death and pain. But, that would just go to show us that god can't understand what it is suppose to be like to be human, and keep in mind he formed us after herself. It's a matter of faith.
2007-01-13 17:02:35 · answer #10 · answered by amazon 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
.Jehovah is God Almighty, he can not die. Jesus is the son of God, he came to earth and he died on the torture stake. so Jesus is not God.
2007-01-13 18:25:14 · answer #11 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋