How can this be explained?

Question

I asked a question few minutes ago and a got 16 answers with varying opinions.
It's amazing that all the answers to my question got a negative rating!!

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Answer 1

Mine didn't

But I think it has to do with all the people that have negative views towards Christianity in general plus the topic of your question is a hotly debated one even within Christianity.

Answer 2

Excellent question with an excellent reference.

I believe you received negative ratings due to the fact that you are shaking the foundations of Christian belief. There is a very good chance that the majority of Christians are unfamiliar with this biblical quote and would rather not know about it!

Answer 3

Because Christ came to earth as a man he clothed himself so as to remain faithful to the Father. In other words he did not go around as GOD but went as a mere man speaqking and doing the things as
GOD. He dwells with the Father as one in heaven so he now fully knows the intent and the hour of all things

Answer 4

A "thumbs down" usually means that you are right - and some people just don't want to hear the truth.

I wear them as badges of honor.

Answer 5

What Bible are you reading from?

The King James Version says "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." Matthew 24:36

For this reason, I only read the King James Version of the Bible. You have Jesus in flesh and blood like unto a man which is our only image of God in flesh, because God is a Spirit also.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God." John 1:1,2

Revelation 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (beast), whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Man is made in the image of Jesus who was with God in the beginning along with the Holy Spirit hovering over the waters.

God is a great manifesting Spirit capable of being three different divine parts or beings.

Matthew 22:41-46 "While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them. Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose Son is He? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? (Psalm 110:1) If David then call him Lord, how is He His Son? and no man was able to answer Him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask Him any more questions.

When Jesus asked them "Who is the Messiah?" He gave them a clear opportunity to acknowledge Him. Jesus totally stump the Pharisees who wanted to believe in a human Messiah, but not a divine Messiah.

A cloud overshadowed Peter, John and James on the Mountain of Transfiguration and said "This is my beloved Son: hear Him."
Mark 9:7

John 2:19 "Jesus answered and said unto them, "Destroy this temple, and in 3 days I will raise it up."

Jesus said, John 10:30 "I and My Father are One." Jesus said He is God right here very plainly.

John 11:25,26 "Jesussaid unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believes in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die, Believe thou this?

John 12:44 "Jesus cried and said, He that believes on Me, believes not on Me, but on Him that sent Me. And He that sees Me sees Him that sent Me.

There are other verses, but HOW MUCH PLAINER CAN JESUS TELL US THAT HE IS GOD, BUT GOD IN FLESH AND GOD IS MORE THAN FLESH? He is Creator, He is an all-consuming fire, He is Spirit and much, much more.

Luke 13:32 Jesus said
"And He said unto the, Go ye, and tell that fox (Herod), Behold I cast out devils, and I do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected (resurrected). Everybody was afraid of Herod even his own family was afraid of him, but not Jesus.

Jesus said "I have the power to lay down my life and I have the power to take it back up." John 10:18 "No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of Myself, I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father."

Jesus Christ is God and King of Kings and Lord of Lords and the Great I AM. From Genesis to Revelation it is all about Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

Good observation. What is you conclusion about that?

Answer 7

"I have read all Your Questions and all your answers to others Questions. I have compassion for you. You are really suffering inside mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. YOU HAVE NO PEACE OF MIND, AND YOU ARE NOT A HAPPY PERSON. Your religion is NOT working for You, that is quite obvious. I am not a Christian, and I Think very Highly of Jesus. "You Really Need to find REAL Peace, before you hurt yourself." You mock others, and tear them down, because you have a Very poor self-image, & that's the Truth. I am a Psychologist. "Learn & Practice daily how to Love all People w/out being attached to them = for the stable Mental Peace you so desperately are in need of. Or seek a Psychiatrist, for you need desperate help asap !
Swallow your pride, Read This, & do this.
What in the world is the difference between loving a person and being attached to them ?
Love is the sincere wish for others to be happy, and to be free from suffering.
Having realistically recognized others' kindness as well as their faults, love is always focused on the other persons welfare. We have No ulterior motives to fulfill our self-interest, or to fulfill our desires; to love others simply because they exist.
Attachment, on the other hand, exaggerates others' good qualities and makes us crave to be with them. When we're with them, we're happy, but when we're separated from them, we are often miserable. Attachment is linked with expectations of what others should be or do.
Is love as it is usually understood in our society
really love ? or attachment ?
Let us examine this a bit more. Generally we are attracted to people either because they have qualities we value or because they help us in some way. If we observe our own thought processes mindfully, and carefully - we'll notice that we look for specific qualities in others.
Some of these qualities we find attractive, others are those our parents, or society value.
We examine someone's looks, body, education,
financial situation, social status. This is how most of us decide on whether or not the person holds any true value to us.
In addition, we judge people as worthwhile according to how they relate to us. If they help us, praise us, make us feel secure, listen to what we have to say, care for us when we are sick or depressed, we consider them good people, and it is this type of people we are most likely to be more attracted to.
But this is very biased, for we judge them only in terms of how they relate to "us", as if we are the most important person in the world.
After we've judged certain people to be good for us, whenever we see them it appears to us as if goodness is coming from them, but if we are more aware, we recognize that we have projected this goodness onto them.
Desiring to be with the people a lot who make us feel good, we become emotional yo-yo's -
when we're with these people, we're Up, when we're not with these people, we're Down.
Furthermore, we form fixed concepts of what our relationships with those people will be and thus have expectations of them. When they do not live up to our expectations of them, we're very disappointed, or may become angry !
We want them to change so that they will they will match what we think they are. But our projections and expectations come from our own minds, not from the other people.
Our problems arise not because others aren't
who we thought they we're, but because we mistakenly thought they were something they
aren't.
Checklist: "I Love You if __________ "
What we call love is most often attachment.
It is actually a disturbing attitude that overestimates the qualities of another person.
We then cling to tightly to that person, thinking our happiness depends on that person.
"Love, on the other hand, is an open and very calm, relaxed attitude. We want someone to be happy, and free from suffering simply because they exist. While attachment is uncontrolled and much too sentimental, Love is direct and powerful. Attachment obscures our judgment and we become impatient, angry, and impartial, helping only our dear one's and harming those who we don't like. Love builds up others, and clarifies our minds, and we
access a situation by thinking of the greatest good for everyone. Attachment is based on
selfishness, while Love is founded upon cherishing others, even those who do not look very appealing to the eyes. Love looks beyond
all the superficial appearances, and dwells on the fact that they are just like us: they want inner peace, happiness, and want to avoid suffering. If we see unattractive, dirty, ignorant people, we feel repulsed because our selfish minds want to know attractive, intellectual, clean, and talented people. Love, on the other hand, never evaluates others by these superficial standards and looks much deeper into the person. Love recognizes that regardless of the others' appearances, their experience is the same as ours: they seek inner peace, to be happy, to be free from sufferings, and to do their best to avoid problems.
When we're attached, we're not mentally and emotionally free. We overly depend on and cling to another person to fulfill our mental and especially our emotional needs. We fear losing the person, feeling we'd be incomplete without him.
This does not mean that we should suppress our emotional needs or become aloof, alone and totally independent, for that too does not solve the problem. We must simply realize our unrealistic needs, and slowly seek to eliminate them. Some emotional needs may be so strong that they can't be dissolved immediately.
If we try to suppress them or pretend they do not exist, we become anxious, insecure, falling into a depression. In this case, we can do our best to fulfill our needs while simultaneously working gradually to subdue them.
"The core problem is we seek to be loved, rather than to love. We yearn to be understood by others rather than to understand them. In all honesty, our sense of emotional insecurities comes from the selfishness obscuring our own
minds. 'We can develop self-confidence by recognizing our inner potential to become a selfless human being with many, many magnificent qualities, then we'll develop a true and accurate feeling of self-confidence. And
then we'll seek to increase true love, without attachments, to increase compassion, to cultivate patience and understanding, as well as generosity, concentration and wisdom.'

'Under the influence of attachment we're bound by our emotional reactions to others. When they are nice to us, we're happy. When they ignore us, or speak sharply to us, we take it personally and are unhappy. But pacifying attachment doesn't mean we become hard-hearted. Rather, without attachment there will be space in our hearts and minds for genuine Affection and Impartial Love for them.
We'll be actively involved with them.
If we learn to subdue our attachments, we can most definitely have successful friendships and personal relationships with others !! These relationships will be richer because of the freedom and respect - the relationships will be based on. We'll care about the happiness and the misery of all human beings equally, simply because everyone is the same in wanting and needing inner peace, happiness, and not wanting to suffer. However, our lifestyles and interests may be more compatible with those of some people more so than with others, and that is alright. In any case, our relationships will be based on mutual Love, mutual interests, and the wish to help each other in life.