WHO FORGIVES SINS? yahweh or jesus,are jesus and the father one ?read the ans`?

Question

WHO FORGIVES SINS?
God
*Mk 2:7 God alone can forgive sin
*Lk 5:21 God alone can forgive sin

Jesus
*Mk 2:5-7,10 Jesus forgives sin
*Lk 5:24 Jesus forgives sin

Answer 1

This initial question is asked in a respectful manner, and seems to deserve a respectful answer. Sadly, this question grossly misrepresents what the Scriptures actually teach.

Do Mark 2:7 and Luke 5:21 really teach that only God the Father can forgive sin? No true worshipper ever taught that; it was the scribes and Pharisees who PRETENDED that Jesus did not have the authority to forgive sin. Such a pretense seems "anti-christ" or "against Christ".

(Mark 2:6,7) Now there were some of the scribes there, sitting and reasoning in their hearts: “Why is this man [Jesus] talking in this manner? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins except one, God?”

(Luke 5:20,21) [Jesus] said: “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” Thereupon the scribes and the Pharisees started to reason, saying: “Who is this that is speaking blasphemies? Who can forgive sins except God alone?”


From where did Jesus get the authority to forgive sins? The Scriptures plainly teach that God the Father ("Yahweh" or "Jehovah") gave such authority to the Son.

(Matthew 28:18) Jesus approached and spoke to them, saying: “All authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth.

(Matthew 11:25-27) Jesus said in response: “I publicly praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intellectual ones and have revealed them to babes. ...All things have been delivered to me by my Father

Answer 2

The Pharisees and the scribes are the ones who said that God alone can forgive sins. But that is not true, Jesus corrected them by saying "24 But in order for YOU to know that the Son of man HAS AUTHORITY on the earth to forgive sins" Luk 5:24. This authority has been given to Jesus by his Father, and it is reasonable because Jesus is the appointed judge by God. It doesn't mean though that if Jesus can forgive sins that he is part of the Trinity nor make him Almighty God.

Answer 3

Jesus and God are one. God the Father is a is represented as a spirit and God the Son is in human form. God forgives.

Answer 4

God forgives our sins because of Jesus.

Answer 5

According to good old deductive logic:
If...
Only God forgives sin.
Jesus forgives sin.

Then, Jesus is God.

Who said religion and science are mutually exclusive?

Now, for my opinion:

I believe that true forgiveness results from true repentence. God forgives those who repent. So, before we can be forgiven, we must first forgive ourselves. Then, God can sanctify us and heal us through His grace.

Answer 6

Jesus asks his Father to forgive them.

“Father, Forgive Them”

Jesus perfectly reflected his Father’s love in another important way he was “ready to forgive.” This willingness was evident even when he was on the torture stake. Subjected to a shameful death, with nails piercing his hands and feet, what did Jesus speak about? Did he call out to Jehovah to punish his executioners? On the contrary, among Jesus’ last words were: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

Like his Father, Jesus showed reasonableness by being “ready to forgive” over and over again. Consider the time when Peter, a close companion, denied Jesus three times on the night of Jesus’ arrest and trial. Jesus himself had earlier stated: “Whoever disowns me before men, I will also disown him before my Father.” (Matthew 10:33) Did Jesus rigidly and mercilessly apply this rule to Peter? No; after His resurrection, Jesus paid Peter a personal visit, no doubt to comfort and reassure this repentant, brokenhearted apostle. Shortly thereafter, Jesus permitted Peter to have great responsibility. Here was sweet reasonableness at its very best! Is it not comforting to think that Jehovah has appointed Jesus as Judge over all mankind?

Both Jehovah, his father, and the Son have the ability to "forgive" but the Father gave His Son this honor.

He had been speaking to his disciples, looking at them as he talked; then he needed only to ‘raise his eyes to heaven’ and continue talking, but now speaking to his Father.
It was as simple as that.On the basis of such a relationship to God Jesus addressed himself to God as a son and prayed: “Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you, according as you have given him authority over all flesh, that, as regards the whole number whom you have given him, he may give them everlasting life. This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.” (John 17:1-3) Thus Jesus did not claim to be “the only true God.”

Notice that Jesus prays to One whom he calls “the only true God.” He points to God’s superior position when he continues: “So now you, Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was.” (John 17:5) Since Jesus prayed to God requesting to be alongside God, how could Jesus at the same time be “the only true God”? Let us examine this matter.

Does the Bible agree with those who teach that the Father and the Son are not separate and distinct individuals? No it does not.

Matt. 26:39, RS: “Going a little farther he [Jesus Christ] fell on his face and prayed, ‘My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.’” (If the Father and the Son were not distinct individuals, such a prayer would have been meaningless. Jesus would have been praying to himself, and his will would of necessity have been the Father’s will.)

Though he invariably found himself busy from morning to night, he set aside time to talk to his heavenly Father. Sometimes, Jesus got up “early in the morning, while it was still dark,” in order to pray. (Mark 1:35) On other occasions, he retired to a lonely place at the end of the day in order to talk to Jehovah.

Answer 7

"I and the Father are one." is one verse that shows the doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three persons.