The problem with Christianity? Not only myself, but almost all non-Christians feel this way?

Question

Christians believe Jesus is God or son of God based on verses similar to this :
Jesus said: "I and the Father are one"(Jn.10:30)
Jesus said: "I am the way, ...no one comes to the Father, but through me." (Jn.14:6)
I dont wish to list every verse but they are more or less similar.

For Non-Christians like myself, these verses:
Jesus said: "I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I." (Jn.14:28)
Jesus said; "Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master; neither is the one who is sent greater than the one who sent him." (John 13:16)

Now, LOGICALLY speaking, if Jesus was God, he could have said it himself, somewhere, at least ONCE. But he did not. All the prophets have mentioned to their people that they were prophets sent by God. If Jesus was TRULY God, he should have said it HIMSELF, not, the Gospel writers. Son of God may not be taken in the literal sense.
Put all faith aside and Look at it from a Logical point. Is Jesus God?

Answers like, you have to let the Holy Ghost inside so that you will understand the whole thing is Garbish!
Imagine that thare's a stranger knocking on your order. Would you just open the door letting him without finding out who is he and where is he from? Or would you find uout the details before deciding whether to allow him in? Common sense and logic will say its the latter. With enough Logical proof and evidence, things can be accepted right?

Answer 1

Confusion and Christianity go hand in hand.......

Answer 2

I am a Christian myself, and I truly hope I do not rise such feelings in people's lives of any belief system. Yet, I heard of a study that showed that like 80% of americans profess to be Christian, yet only a some 13% of them are actually believers or truly Christians. Although America is not the world, it is a staggering statistic, which very well may be a reason why you keep encountering such people. What I advise, is not to try to make friends with Christians but just make friends with any people ignoring what their beliefs are, judging each person on their own actions, yet I do understand that it is very hard to discredit the group of whom so many people come from and yet act unlike the group claims to act.

Answer 3

Faith can never be "put aside", but I'll try to have some as I think this question through for logical indicators.

What do the phrases "Son of man", and "Son of God" mean, if anything, to you? I mean, put your own bias aside for a moment, and try to understand (while keeping in mind whom Christ was speaking to) that one must define terms in any text in order to comprehend the "context" in which certain idiomatic utterances are made. How in depth is your understanding of God's interactions with the Jews throughout their history? What does "Father" mean in a spiritual sense? What did Christ tell the Jews never to call another man on earth in a spiritual sense? "Father", maybe? So now ask yourself again, "Why would Christ say these things to these wayward people in this manner?" I'm going to stop here because I want the epiphany to be all yours. Enjoy.

Answer 4

There are three things at the very least that make me know that Jesus is Gods word and not God..
first is the fact that if Jesus was God why would he Pray to God ,he would be praying and asking for strength and guidence from him self to him self
Secondly the Bible makes it clear there is one God and one only
And thirdly i know there was no mention of Father Son and Holy Spirit in the original manuscripts that the Bible was translated from ,or even in the early Bibles .the Trinity only came into the Bible in the 15th century as the ancient text read "The Blood the Water and the Spirit"

Answer 5

Jesus said: "I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I." (Jn.14:28)

This verse doesn't really contradict that Jesus is God.
"Greater" is a matter of position not by nature. Father is greater than Jesus in position. The word greater doesn't contradict that God and Jesus is equal in nature.

The word you probably think is better. Better is a matter of nature.
Jesus didn't say "I go to the Father; for the Father is better than I."
if "better" then that means Father is not equal to Jesus by nature.

Can you say that the president is greater than you?
But is the president better than you?

Answer 6

Yes. The Trinity describes a single God with three separate identities, The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit. These three things form one God, and is a 'triumvirate' (for lack of a better description) entity known as "The Godhead" -- a term which refers to the Judeo-Christian God, whose holy name is represented in the ancient Hebrew acrostic YHVH.

Answer 7

No one knows why Christ did not write his own sacred teachings himself. We can only conjecture among some plausible sounding, hopefully historical sound reasons. However, in doing that, as in all hair-splittings, I think we miss the point of Christ's existence.

His was a continuation of Moses's teachings in an ever-advancing chain of universal educators. He clearly relates himself to Moses when he said "If ye had known Moses, you would have known me." In the Jn 14:6-9 verse, we come upon this concept again. "..no one cometh unto the father, except by me."

The missing ingredient in understanding who Christ is are the words "me and I". What does he really mean when he says those words? Is he referring to his personality and his flesh and bones body? Or, is he referring to his eternal self, his reality, his universality, his oneness in spirit with the creator god? How we understand that one concept "me-I" makes a fundamental difference in our ability to reconcile the purpose of Christ's mission and his teachings.

Paul beats his brains out trying to explain the importance of this understanding in II Cor Ch 10-13. He is almost hysterical in his attempts.

If we understand the words to mean Christ's eternal self, it is then easier to understand how Christ can be one with the father, one with Moses, one with Muhammad, one with The Bab, one with Baha'u'llah and how that same spirit is progressively revealed from age to age, speaks to humanity again and again lifting and upraising an ever-advancing civilization. .

Answer 8

He was NOT god he was a prophet
Look what the Bible says –


Jesus ( the god ) is hungry

* And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.( Mathew 4:2)
* ·Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.( .( Mathew 21:18)
* And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: ( Mark 11:12)



Jesus ( God ) thirsty

* There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.



Jesus ( God ) sleeps

* ·I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
* ·And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? ( Mark -4:38)
* Then an angle appeared in the sky to reinforce him ( Luke -2:43)



Jesus (the god ) manageable

* The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth

how can he be a god while he need to sleep .... eat ..... drink??

What kind of god can't forgive sins without killing his son ??

what kind of god needs a son any way ??

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD NOT 3

And behold! Allah will say "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, `worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah"? He will say: "Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, Thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, though I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden. (5:116)

Say: He is Allah the One and Only; (1) Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; (2) He begetteth, not nor is He begotten; (3) And there is none like unto Him. (4) (sura 112 )


salam

Answer 9

God is one and only. God created us with brain or with sense to think and understand. We should use our common sense. God created Jesus, like he created all other creations including you and me. Creator and creations can not be same. Creator is much much superior than Its creation.

Christian, please ask your science teacher to find some better explanation regarding trinity. Not H2o,because God is alive, not a creation like water. Please ask them to come up with some live creation to explain trinity.

Answer 10

Keeping it all in context, Christ said these words in the middle of a lesson on servanthood...read the entire section and see how it fits.

Answer 11

isnt it logical to understand when you are hungry and know that the feeling comes from your body,look at it like this God is the trunk and we are the branches when you know God you are the branch and faith is what keeps you connected to the trunk (God)keeping you focused and grounded in life,Jesus gave His life taking away the sins of the world,He could have called 10,000 angels but didnt because of us,God had to turn His head(because He cant look upon sin) and that is why Jesus said My God,My God why hast thou forsaken me