Jesus was GOD right and the Apostle John walked with Jesus?

Question

Then why did John say at John 1:18 No man has seen God at any time?

Answer 1

Jesus is not God as the Creator can not become a creation.
The trinity is like other false doctrines such as hell fire and purgatory. Many religions in Christendom misled their people of the truth of God and make teachings for themselves.
Scriptural the argument is easily conquered that the trinity is a false doctrine. The trinity is paradoxical and many describe the trinity as a "mystery" which is a cop out, because God is not one of confusion and He gave us the Bible to reveal himself to mankind.
But I do not mind those who stubbornly refuse to listen to truth because God draws right hearted ones and blinds the haughty.

laylallu, I seriously doubt you were ever a baptised Witness or you were very young. Most Witnesses who had learned the truth and had left the organisation largely do not join other churches. They back off religion all together. Once you know the truth there is no going back to what was before, you know the false teachings of churches, you know how in vain it would be.

Answer 2

The John who is being written about here is John the Baptist.

The John who wrote this is St. John the apostle.

Two different people. It gets confusing.

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

St. John the apostle is writing about Jesus, who is the only begotten Son of God, and he is saying that, up until that time, no man ... no one but Jesus ... had ever seen the Father.

Jesus revealed the nature of the Holy Trinity ... the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit .... for the first time, ever.

Because Jesus is the only begotten Son of the Father, and of the same godly "essence", Jesus is also God, by virtue of his divine nature.

So St. John the apostle was right, and he is still right, to this day, as no man on earth has ever seen God the Father.

Answer 3

Why do we see pictures of Jesus in churches? If you believe in the Trinity, you know God has three forms-yet is still one. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Moses (I think) was blinded on a mountain when God appeared to him asking him to go tell the good news. Yet the disciples have seen Jesus before, and most people went and saw baby Jesus. Maybe that bible verse is referring to God the Father, not God the Son.

Answer 4

Then what of Moses? Did he not speak with God face to face? The point is that, like Moses who was hidden in the shadow of the rock, no man has seen the full glory of God. For no man can look upon God's glory and live. How then could Jacob wrestle with God? Who then did Joshua worship? Is God not God enough to come in the form of man, have His flesh peeled and pierced as a perfect sacrifice for sin?

Jesus said, "If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father."

Answer 5

It's simple, Jesus wasn't God. He never claimed to be God.

Answer 6

Maybe he was blind. Maybe he didn't look at Jesus. Maybe Jesus isn't God. There are many more answers from the Fundamentalist Christian movement as well.

Answer 7

By your question, you are obvously a Jehovah's Witness. I was once also, till I was born again and seen the Truth.

Your question is just the same as the rest. so I will answer your question by other questions.

Isa 42:8 says, “I am Jehovah. That is my name; and to no one else shall I give my own glory…”. Similarly, Isa 48:11 says, “… And to no one else shall I give my own glory.” If Christ is not God, then how could he say in Jn 17:5, “So now you, Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the GLORY that I HAD alongside you before the world was”? Since God stated that no one else would have the glory that alone belonged to God, how could Christ have the same “glory” as God unless Christ is God in the flesh?


Phil 2:6-8 says that Christ was “existing in God’s form” before he became a man, and willingly “emptied (lowered) himself” to become a man and “humbled HIMSELF” in order to make himself subject to the Father. Scripture also says that Christ was born under the law (Gal 4:4), in order to do, not his own will, but the will of the Father (Jn 5:30, 6:37). Doesn’t this mean that before Christ lowered “himself”, he would not have been subject to the Father and therefore equal to the Father in authority and glory? See also Jn 17:5


According to scripture, Jesus is “the first and the last” (Rev 1:17-18), the “first and the last” is “the Alpha and Omega” (Rev 22:13), and “the Alpha and the Omega” is God (Rev 1:8). In other words, Jesus = “the first and the last” = “the Alpha and the Omega” = God. How can this be if Jesus is not God?


Jesus Christ is referred to as "Mighty God" in Isa 9:6 ("For there has been a child born to us, there has been a son given to us... And his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father..."). Jehovah God is referred to as "Mighty God" in Isa 10:20-21. How can this be if there is only ONE God? Jesus is also called the “Eternal Father” in Isa 9:6. Since only God is eternal, that is, has no beginning and no end, how can this be if Christ is not God but was “created” by God? If “Mighty God” and “Eternal Father” are only titles given to Christ, why would he be given any “title” in scripture that did not accurately apply to him?

I then now pray this prayer over you my brother,
Ephesians 1:16-20 (Amplified Bible)

16I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.

17[For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him,

18By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones),

19And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength,

20Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places],

Ephesians 3:14-19 (New International Version)

14For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15from whom his whole family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

BE BLESSED AND REJOICE IN THE LORD!