Jesus:: Was he God?

Question

This question is directed more towards the Christians, but anyone of you may answer, if you so please...

Was Jesus God?
-or-
Was Jesus merely a human man who became the Anointed Prophet spoken of in the O.T., approved by God?

Please explain WHY you believe one way or the other, and give any scripture you would like as reference.

Answer 1

I'm a Christian, and I believe that Jesus was the SON of God, not God himself.

Explanation: On several occassions, Jesus was faced with someone referring to him as God. And each time, Jesus did not say he was God, but that God was greater than him.
Also, a very well known scripture at John 3:16, it states that God loved the world so much, that he sent his son. It does not state that God sent himself. Wouldn't make sense.
And if Jesus was God, he would've told his disciples to preach just that. But instead, he told them to preach about the good news of HIS FATHER'S KINGDOM.

Answer 2

Names and Titles applied by the Scripture to Christ.

The Christ, The Messiah, Savior, Redeemer, Faithful Witness, Wonderful Counselor, The Word of God, The Truth, The Light of the World, The Way, The Good Shepherd, Mediator, Deliverer, The Great High Priest, The Author and Perfecter of Our Faith, The Captain of Our Salvation, Our Advocate, The Son of God, The Son of Man, God, The Holy One of God, Only Begotten Son, Mighty God, The Image of God, Everlasting Father, Lord, Lord of All, Lord of Glory, Lord of Lords, Blessed and Only Potentate, King of Israel, King of Kings, Ruler of the Kings of the Earth, Prince of Life, Prince of Peace, The Son of David, The Branch, The Root and Offspring of David, The Bright and Morning Star, Immanuel, The Second Adam, The Lamb of God, The Lion of the Tribe of Judah, The Alpha and Omega, The First and The Last, The Beginning and The End, The Beginning of the Creation of God, The Firstborn of All Creation, The Amen, Christ.

Answer 3

The Bible tells me that Jesus was born as the result of his mother being made pregnant by the Holy Spirit of God. Therefore, Jesus was at least half God.... As I Christian, I can not pick and choose those things written in my Bible that I do or do not believe....even if I don't always know the necessarily correct interpretation any more than any one else does.

Answer 4

Jesus is the son of God sent to Earth to teach us humans. Jesus is an angel. He was a prophet, but he was a teacher, a healer, and a path to God. Jesus now joins God and the Holy Spirit in heaven.

Answer 5

I believe Jesus was God...because He said so. because He had the authority to forgive....and He could do miracles...He could heal the blind and the sick....He rose from the dead....He was not a lunatic...but a man...who is God...that came in human form. I believe it's so...because Jesus said so. Look at all His names...the Word of God....Lamb of God....Bread of Life...Living Water...do you think a prophet could give u the Bread of Life...or give u the Living Water...no they cant....al they can do is prophesiy. but Jesus DID give the Living Water....and the Bread of Life...You get it when you are saved....in His name, now and forever.


God bless u. =]



EDIT: people...He is the son of God!!! but He is also....God. its called the Trinity...God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. they all are God. ALL OF THEM. dont just say that He was the son of God..because He was...and always will be God...with God the Father...and Jesus the son...and the Holy Spirit. They are NOT gods...they are only God....they all make up...God. but Jesus could have been God without the other 2...because God tells moses...that He is " I AM" when He talks to the samaritan woman...at the well...He tells her that He is the Living Water....a son of the president could not do much...a son of a king should not be praised....but the son of God...should be...because He is not only the son of God the Father...but He is also God...because when people say He is the son of God....people are saying that He is ONLY the son of God the Father..that God the Father is the only God...how do u explain the Holy Spirit? then what is He? God the Father is also a spirit...and so is Jesus...yet...God the Father is God...so who is the Holy Spirit? they are all God. all of them.

Answer 6

Neither. Jesus was the Son of God, not God himself. As the son of God we was also not a mere human.

Read the Gospels please and see that throughout their entirety there is a blazingly clear distinction between Jesus Christ and his Father Jehovah.

Look for Jesus to be praying to his Father before performing his many miracles, before his death. If he was God himself in any form, why pray if he had all things within himself?

Look for Jesus himself to put himself in a relatively inferior position to his father. "the Father is greater than I am", "I do nothing of my own initiative but do the will of him that sent me" (who sent him?)

Look for his worst enemies to accuse him for saying he was God's SON not God himself.

I hope that helps you.

Finally, when Jesus speaks of being one with his Father, he is refererring to unity of thought and purpose. Not unity of being. I mean think about it. The scriptures say that GOD is from Everlasting to Everlasting... Jesus died. Moses said that no man can see God and live, yes they saw Jesus. Jesus died and was resurrected? If he was GOD himself who was it doing the resurrecting?

Answer 7

He was/is (english doesn't have the verb tense) God.

the word He used to descirbe Himself and the Holy Spirit and the Father was "parakletos" meaning "of the same essense and one in the same". He also made claims like "before Abrham was, I am!", "I and the Father are One", "I will destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days".

Plus incidents such as doubting Thomas calling Jesus God and He not denying it, or Satan being rebuked for tempting God in the desert lead you to believe the obvious.

and when God says things in a certain order, it has significance. You'll notice Jesus never calls Himself inferior to God, or God's Son, but "the Son of God". That states that He is equal to God (He didn't deny it when accused of it) which no human is supposed to be, and that He is part of God.

Answer 8

Jesus is a noble prophet of God. He is a miracle in the way he was born, the way he was picked up to the heavens, and the way he’ll come back to earth again.
In this site, you’ll find all the information you are looking for:
http://www.jesuswillreturn.com/

Answer 9

I am a Christian and I wonder who was Jesus praying to if he was God but I alway he this answer or that answer because other Christian do not know and the one that do the other Christian of the world
said the are not real christian lol

Answer 10

"...CHRIST JESUS...who being in the FORM OF GOD, thought it not robbery to be EQUAL WITH GOD: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."
(Philippians 2:5-8)

" In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word WAS God. .....And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us". John 1

" I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, The ALMIGHTY." - Jesus (Revel.1:8)

" He that has see me has seen the Father" - Jesus (Jn. 14:9)

" In Him is the fullness of the Godhead bodily".(Col. 2:9)

" Believe thou not that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the FATHER THAT DWELLS IN ME....." - Jesus (John 14:10-11)

" I and my Father are one"- Jesus

" Before Abraham was, I Am".- Jesus