Even his mother never called him God? Only after Jesus died then Christians called him God? How it can be?
2007-02-23 16:27:47 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If we read the Bible, in all its 66 volumes of the Protestant versions, or in the 73 volumes of the Roman Catholic versions, there isn't a statement or a verse where Jesus directly says: “I am God”, "Worship me" or "I am God the Son". Assuming that Jesus is God Almighty, it would be somehow strange to believe that God Almighty inspired many scribes to write thousands and thousands of scripture, including detailed stories and songs, without mentioning that he (Jesus) is God Almighty -- a fundamental and important concept, in any verse.
"I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me." [John 5:30]
2007-02-23 16:40:35 · update #1
I think you are right - no one ever called him God until after he died (and after the resurrection) because the resurrection clearly showed everyone that he was more than a moral teaching or prophet.
Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God" John 20:28 AFTER the resurrection.
The resurrection convinced the Christians that Jesus was supernatural, higher than any angel, more than any "prophet", more than any moral teacher, more than anything the world has known and will ever know. The only thing we can call that is a Supreme Being.
2007-02-23 16:43:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Trinity and such, he is & he isn't blah, blah, blah.
What I am disturbed by is that much of Christianity these days seems to believe that Jesus is THE one & only.
How can the Son have any power,if not for the Father that sent him? How can the birth, life, and death of a mortal totally discount all that came before, the Creator himself? If Jesus is God period, then was God absent from heaven while Jesus was alive? Whithout the Father there could be no Son. "Christians" of the world, do not be so quick to forget your maker.
2007-02-23 17:26:32 · answer #2 · answered by VistaMoon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he has always been God "So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son." John 1:14
also God has many names: Jehovah, Elohim, Emmanuel,etc. God is very personal and so when he sent his son Jesus dont u think it would be more personal to call him by Jesus then to just call him God?. kind of like how your friends dont call u Mr.(insert your last name) they call u by your first name. also Jesus directly refers to God as his father in scripture and the Bible states that God,Jesus and the Holy Spirit r all one(yet seperate beings, which is a completely different and confusing subject)
2007-02-23 16:47:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning was the Word (Jesus), the Word was with God, and the Word was God. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit are all three individual, but all one God. God the Son came as a human, through the virgin birth for a sacrifice for our sins. It was necessary that sacrifice be a human without blemish and that is why Christ chose to come in the flesh and walked among us. He shed his Blood on the cross and carried His Blood to the Father for a Blood atonement for you and I.
2007-02-23 16:43:55 · answer #4 · answered by Auburn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is man and God it's reallly confussing because the human part of him was what they were acting under BUt there was some God part in him to . Read a bible dude.
2007-02-23 16:34:18 · answer #5 · answered by Mare 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interior the scrolls stumbled on, God's call "YHWH" became stumbled on ove 15,000 circumstances. The Jews used God's call all the time, yet around the time of Jesus, it became believed that no guy could desire to talk God's call by way of fact it became too holy. They did a distinctive way of spelling it, getting rid of the vowels and utilising in hassle-free terms consonants to be the YHWH we see. If the consonants are positioned including the unique Aramaic verbage, we get Jehovah. nevertheless, we don't know precisely how God's call became suggested, yet this is the closest we are able to get to it by way of fact the unique Aramaic is a ineffective language.
2016-09-29 13:20:39 · answer #6 · answered by lieser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity... some preacher once told me, you must pray to the "lord" or Jesus to talk to "God" himself & can't talk/pray to him directly even in psalm readings/songs & whatnot they all pray to Jesus but *He is not what they would consider "God" but a way to talk to him because he died for the sins of mankind or something like that. Personally I think it's dumb but o well believe what you want.
2007-02-23 16:40:12 · answer #7 · answered by djini 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only after his death could he be raised back to life.
Only after his death could he have "ALL authority."
Matthew 28:18 Then Jesus came to them. He said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 So you must go and make disciples of all nations. Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And you can be sure that I am always with you, to the very end.”
2007-02-23 16:30:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus said He was God when He used the name I AM as His own.
2007-02-23 16:30:53 · answer #9 · answered by wd 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Aren't we all God?
Go take a look outside, everything you see there is God.
Every part of existence is God. God is everything.
So i guess Jesus is right and people back then we're stoopid?
Personally I don't use the word God, I like to call him Yah. It sounds more badass
2007-02-23 16:30:28 · answer #10 · answered by Rain. 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋