Do you believe Jesus is God?

Question

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Answer 1

No. I do not believe in any god(s), jesus or otherwise. There is even great speculation that an actual jesus even existed at all. Many write that he was merely a created entity, a conglomeration of several men of the time.

Answer 2

What does the Bible say? At Ps. 83:18, it says Jehovah is the Most High. Is Jesus also the Most High? No. At Luke 1:32, Jesus was called the Son of the Most High.

At John 17:3, Jesus called his Father the ONLY true God. The word "only" means: single in superiority or distinction; unique; the best. Since that is the case, how can Jesus and the holy spirit ALSO be the only true God?

Jesus is not equal to his Father. At John 14:28, he said: "The Father is greater than I am." 1 Cor. 11:3 says: "The head of the Christ is God.

Jesus is not God; he is a worshiper of God. At John 20:17, Jesus told Mary he was "ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God."

If Jesus were God, then why were there things that ONLY his Father knew?

No, Jesus is not God. As he told his enemies: "I am God's Son." John 10:36

Answer 3

Yes, Remember the Trinity? God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.

Answer 4

Jesus is not the eternal God of creation. He worked with his father's powers to make what we seen. But not alone.
God's first creation was his son Jesus by another name thought to be Michael, the ARC angel or head over all the other angels.
But the supreme being, he isn't. He said so in the bible. Certain preachers like to skip over his denials, hoping their congregations will also. Because when they find out the pastor is lying, they leave, and that takes money out of the pastors pockets and makes him look bad.

Answer 5

God poured his love into Jesus and He was born unique but that doesn't make Him God. God put part of himself into Jesus but He was also human so He is of God rather than God Himself.

Answer 6

Jesus is the Son of God. There is 3. Jesus is as much God as God is God and God is as much Jesus as Jesus is Jesus, and same for the Holy Spirit.

Answer 7

Jesus is the Son of God. Only through Him can we reach God.

Answer 8

I believe that the man Jesus was in fact a physical manifestation of the God on earth. He was the 'son' of God only in that He was born of a human woman, but God Himself resided within this physical form. Many older sects of Christianity took this view: That God came to the world as a man, not just to cleanse the world of sin but also to truly understand His creation. If you look at Biblical history you find that until Jesus came, God viewed man with some aloofness. He would exercise righteous anger and punishment on man, and man cried out, God, how can you know what it is to be man if you have not lived as one. So God came as man and understood. This of course is not spoken of much anymore since Christ has taken on a celebrity of His own. It is the fault of people who forget that God is Christ, and Christ is God, as are we all. Christianity, over the years, has separated us from this truth and because of it, has allowed hatred of those who different to fester. All people, Black, White, Jew, Christian, even Gay and Straight are ALL part of Gods' creation. To hate even of them or to judge them is to in fact judge God Himself.

This of course is only opinion but I offer it as an answer.

Answer 9

Jesus is the only son of God.

Answer 10

1) JESUS DID NOT FULFILL THE MESSIANIC PROPHECIES

What is the Messiah supposed to accomplish? The Bible says that he will:

A. Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28).

B. Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6).

C. Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4)

D. Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. As it says: "God will be King over all the world -- on that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9).

The historical fact is that Jesus fulfilled none of these messianic prophecies.

Christians counter that Jesus will fulfill these in the Second Coming, but Jewish sources show that the Messiah will fulfill the prophecies outright, and no concept of a second coming exists.

2) JESUS DID NOT EMBODY THE PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS OF MESSIAH

A. MESSIAH AS PROPHET

Jesus was not a prophet. Prophecy can only exist in Israel when the land is inhabited by a majority of world Jewry. During the time of Ezra (circa 300 BCE), when the majority of Jews refused to move from Babylon to Israel, prophecy ended upon the death of the last prophets -- Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.

Jesus appeared on the scene approximately 350 years after prophecy had ended.

B. DESCENDENT OF DAVID

According to Jewish sources, the Messiah will be born of human parents and possess normal physical attributes like other people. He will not be a demi-god, nor will he possess supernatural qualities.

The Messiah must be descended on his father's side from King David (see Genesis 49:10 and Isaiah 11:1). According to the Christian claim that Jesus was the product of a virgin birth, he had no father -- and thus could not have possibly fulfilled the messianic requirement of being descended on his father's side from King David!


C. TORAH OBSERVANCE

The Messiah will lead the Jewish people to full Torah observance. The Torah states that all mitzvot (commandments) remain binding forever, and anyone coming to change the Torah is immediately identified as a false prophet. (Deut. 13:1-4)

Throughout the New Testament, Jesus contradicts the Torah and states that its commandments are no longer applicable. (see John 1:45 and 9:16, Acts 3:22 and 7:37) For example, John 9:14 records that Jesus made a paste in violation of Shabbat, which caused the Pharisees to say (verse 16), "He does not observe Shabbat!"

3) MISTRANSLATED VERSES "REFERRING" TO JESUS

Biblical verses can only be understood by studying the original Hebrew text -- which reveals many discrepancies in the Christian translation.

A. VIRGIN BIRTH

The Christian idea of a virgin birth is derived from the verse in Isaiah 7:14 describing an "alma" as giving birth. The word "alma" has always meant a young woman, but Christian theologians came centuries later and translated it as "virgin." This accords Jesus' birth with the first century pagan idea of mortals being impregnated by gods.

B. CRUCIFIXION

The verse in Psalms 22:17 reads: "Like a lion, they are at my hands and feet." The Hebrew word ki-ari (like a lion) is grammatically similar to the word "gouged." Thus Christianity reads the verse as a reference to crucifixion: "They pierced my hands and feet."

C. SUFFERING SERVANT

Christianity claims that Isaiah chapter 53 refers to Jesus, as the "suffering servant."

In actuality, Isaiah 53 directly follows the theme of chapter 52, describing the exile and redemption of the Jewish people. The prophecies are written in the singular form because the Jews ("Israel") are regarded as one unit. The Torah is filled with examples of the Jewish nation referred to with a singular pronoun.

Ironically, Isaiah's prophecies of persecution refer in part to the 11th century when Jews were tortured and killed by Crusaders who acted in the name of Jesus.

From where did these mistranslations stem? St. Gregory, 4th century Bishop of Nazianzus, wrote: "A little jargon is all that is necessary to impose on the people. The less they comprehend, the more they admire."
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