Can Christians point to anywhere in the 3 short years of Jesus being a prophet where he said...?

Question

I am God, worship me? Dont give me bible verses that are ambiguis and can mean whatever you want them to mean. If he was God and wanted you to believe it and not have controversy about it 2000 years later.....then he would stand on mountaintops claiming it to all that would listen...over and over again...right? There would be a thousand accounts of him saying...I am God worship me...and there isnt even one incident of that claim issuing from his mouth...so why do you all believe he was God on earth? what did he say distinctly that made such a claim?

even if you believe he was the son of God...he was still by definition a prophet of God as he preached the word of God to the people...why be touchy about that distinction?

Answer 1

your right. Some of the oldest text (Nag Hammadi) say the same thing ..that Jesus did NOT claim to be god. The gospels in the bible were "cherry picked" to endorse a particular view ....(read the Council of Nicea). Oh and for you idiot christians that don't know your bible's history, the bible was not assembled until a heretic named Marcion put together his own book. 300 some odd years AFTER Jesus. And after the church fathers wrangled out a doctrine they built a bible to support the consensus (or at least the emperor's viewpoint) against the Arian view of Jesus. I know that most christian barely read the bible much less read the history of their own religion so this may come as a complete suprise to some. Your Jesus and Bible are products of political and economic arm twisting by a bunch of bishops that lived longer after the death of the Jesus than we are today removed from the Cranky Pilgrims that landed in America.

Answer 2

Given the transcendent nature (, i.e.,,extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience) of God, we cannot know why He does not be more "in our face".

What we do know is that God's revelation to mankind was delivered in His creation and was followed through His direct interaction with mankind in the first several thousand years or so of man's existence. God, in effect, was done. He had revealed all that was necessary for his fallen creation to move back into His grace, including a written record of these events. We have plenty of physical evidence of God's direct actions in the inspired books of the bible.

What more could God do today than He did then? The response would be the same: some would believe and many more would not. Christ alluded to this when he claimed that even the performance of miracles would not convince the skeptics of His generation. But, in this scenario, just as the angels who fully and completely KNOW there is a God, those that stubbornly refused to believe would be beyond redemption as they would have committed the unpardonable sin.

Quite honestly, I am a bit glad that God does not appear in the heavens and thunder, "Here I AM You Wicked and Viperous Fools! Believe me, now?" Because if He did, we would no longer have any excuses for our actions and would all be found wanting. As things are today, I can hope that through my belief and my works that I will be found worthy. I don't think that I am just yet, so the longer I do not see that thundering face in the sky, the better for me.

Answer 3

Jesus is never recorded in the Bible as saying the exact words, “I am God.” That does not mean, however, that He did not proclaim that He is God. Take for example Jesus’ words in John 10:30, “I and the Father are one.” At first glance, this might not seem to be a claim to be God. However, look at the Jews’ reaction to His statement, “We are not stoning you for any of these, replied the Jews, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God” (John 10:33). The Jews understood Jesus’ statement to be a claim to be God. In the following verses, Jesus never corrects the Jews by saying, “I did not claim to be God.” That indicates Jesus was truly saying He was God by declaring, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30). John 8:58 is another example. Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, before Abraham was born, I am!" Again, in response, the Jews take up stones in an attempt to stone Jesus (John 8:59). Why would the Jews want to stone Jesus if He hadn’t said something they believed to be blasphemous, namely, a claim to be God?

Answer 4

Messiah YAHUSHA, replaced right into a Prophet, yet He replaced into no longer the most suitable prophet. each servant of the most severe is a prophet. that's the clue the Heavenly Father left us, so as that lets understand the shepherds from the wolves. The very last prophets are both witnesses. once they're martyred, then shall the useless in Messiah upward thrust, for which will be on the seventh trumpet. They may be the most suitable of the latter prophets despatched to warn the global. once they have been taken up, alongside with each and each of the body of Messiah, then shall the Almighty's wrath be poured out - 7 bowlfuls of it - upon the unrepentant. each prophet He despatched out replaced into slaughtered. So be it!

Answer 5

He claimed it when the Jews tried to stone him for saying he was God. He claimed it through his Holy Spirit in a number of places in scripture.

Even if he said it numerous different ways and had it recorded by numerous different people, people with hard hearts will still choose not to believe.

If he is God, why would you believe you know the best way to get his message across. You know the answer already.

Answer 6

"I and the father are one".

Since followers of Jesus followed what he told and instructed them to do, that statement accounts for what you said above.

Jesus is not a prophet by the way.

Edit:

Jesus was not a prophet. For example: Jesus asked his disciples:

"Who do you think I am?"

His disciples replied: "You are the Son of God"

Other prophets did not contain the properties of the son of god, and were just prophets. I could go around preaching the word of God, but would that make me a prophet? No. Prophets were ordained especially by God. Jesus was on a different level.

Answer 7

"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (I John 5:7)
All things were made by Jesus:
"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. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." (John 1:1-3)
"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" (Colossians 1:16)

Jesus was not a prophet. Jesus is God in the flesh

Answer 8

He claimed to be the Messiah.In addition,Matthew 16:15-18:
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

Answer 9

Rather than revealing them from the mountaintops in clear language to all, Jesus reveals all things in their due time. As He Himself said, "Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father."

Jesus also said about the prophecies regarding the Messiah...

42"What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" "The son of David," they replied.
43He said to them, "How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,
44" ‘The Lord said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet." ‘
45If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?"

(Know that I am not saying the Son is the Father, but that Jesus is Lord, and that He and the Father are one)

Answer 10

It is not necessary that Jesus say a certain phrase in order for the truth of who he is to be made clear. The issue is not if he speaks a certain sentence that we construct in present terms in order to satisfy our theological demands. The issue is what did Jesus say in the context and culture of the time in which he spoke.