Whyis it so?

Question

The New Testament contains at least five different mythical types or conceptions of Jesus Christ: 1. The Messiah of the synoptics, omitting the opening chapters of Matthew and Luke. 2. The Son of God, or demi-god, introduced in these opening chapters. 3. The incarnate Logos or God of John. 4. The Christ of Paul. 5. Eliminating these more or less supernatural types, there remains in these writings, in addition to the purely natural and purely human Jesus of Nazareth, a type known as the Ideal or Perfect Man.

Answer 1

ITS JUST A BOOK! it changes all the time. old saying dont believe everything you read, or see for that matter lol.

Answer 2

And that's not all! We have different Psalms that illustrate different aspects of Christ. Didn't you know?

I would refer you to Psalms 22, 23, & 24. In 22 we have the suffering servant, in 23 the shepherd, in 24 the king. You are right about those other aspects of Jesus. It's just that you apparently are approaching from a persepctive that appears to be dead in the spirit. You are so close to understanding! What would it take for you to wake up?

Answer 3

Jesus' title "Messiah" or its Greek version "Christ" literally means the "anointed" and more specifically means the expected king and deliverer of the Jews. This title on its own does not indicate a divine nature. The Jews have also never believed that the promised Messiah would be a man equal to God. Incidently, Cyrus, the Persian, is also called a Messiah in the Bible. (Isaiah 45:1)

Prophets called "Son of God" include David (II Samuel 7:14) and Solomon (I Chron 22:10, who is also given an "eternal throne"). "Peacemakers" are called "sons of God" (Mathew 5:9). "All those led by the Spirit" are "sons of God" (Roman 8:14). "All who believed" are "children of God" (John 1:12). Jesus (p.b.u.h.) is quoted often as telling the crowds that God is their "father". Here are some verses associating "sonship" with others than Jesus (p.b.u.h.): Ephesians (1:5, 4:6), Philippians (4:20), Hebrews (12:7), I John (3:1, 5:1), II Corinthians (6:18), Jeremiah (31:1, 31:9), Hosea (1:10), Romans (1:7), Luke (6:36, 12:32), Mathew (5:16, 5:45, 6:1, 7:11, 23:9), and John (8:41-42).

Some say, "but Jesus is the 'only son' of God." Again, this term "only son" cannot in itself be taken literally because the Bible also refers to Isaac as the "only son" of Abraham (Genesis 22:2 and Hebrews 11:17) and at no time was this ever literally true.

Some say, "but Jesus was the 'begotten son' of God." The Prophet David (p.b.u.h.) is also referred to by this title (Psalms 2:7).

Some say, "but Jesus has no father, thus God is his father, making Jesus' sonship divine," but Adam (p.b.u.h.) had no father and is also referred to as "son of God" (Luke 3:38). The high priest Melchezidek is even more incredible "without father or mother or genealogy and has neither beginning of days nor end of life," (Hebrews 7:3) yet I am not aware of any Christian teaching that gives Melchezidek equality with God.

Some say, "but Jesus was the 'first born son of God." Israel (Exodus 4:22) and Ephraim (Jeremiah 31:9) (peace be upon them both) are also "first born" sons of God.

Some say, "but Jesus is in the 'image of the Father' or 'likeness of the Father'." The bible refers to all men as being in the image and likeness of the Father (Genesis 1:26).

Some refer to Jesus as "God, the Son" but I did not find this title for Jesus at all in the Bible.

The Jews sought to kill Jesus (p.b.u.h.) for blasphemy for they said he was claiming to be "son of God" (John 5:18) and "king of the Jews" (John 18:33-36). Jesus (p.b.u.h.) refuted this claim and said that his enemies misunderstood him because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand (Mathew 13:13). The Jews said, "We stone you for blasphemy; because you being a man make yourself God." (John 10:33). Jesus (p.b.u.h.) tells them that they have no grounds to say he is claiming to be God and quotes their own scripture to them (John 10:34-36, Psalm 82).

Answer 4

been watching the History channel