Is he the son of God or is he God?
2007-07-04 05:58:42 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am actually a new Christian. I'm just trying to make sense of it that's all.
2007-07-04 06:07:49 · update #1
Congrats on being a new Christian and welcome to the family of God!
Jesus is the same as God because he is God. I'll just give you some bible verses.
I and My Father are one. John 10:30
For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 1 John 5:7
You see as Jesus, God is both man and divine.
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Phil. 2:5-8
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Gal. 4:4-5
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. Heb. 2:9
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
2007-07-04 08:40:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
The BIble teaches that there's only one God, but there are THREE personalities who compose this one God. They are the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. No God will be formed in the absence of any of them. This teaching is called the TRINITY doctrine.
We on the other hand uphold the doctrine of the TRINITY (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost), no MORE, and no LESS. We repeat, we don't teach that there are three Gods. We only believe that there are three personalities who compose this One God.
John recorded the truths of the TRINITY in 1 John 5:7 (King James Version 1611) where it says: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one."
The Word mean JESUS CHRIST (John 1:1; 14)
This verse shows that we shall see three personalities in heaven. And although each maintains a separated entity, yet they are united in the Godhead. Three in one. Three in unity. and to shorten it, TRINITY.
What does it mean when we say "THREE in one" ? For clarification, we shall turn to John 10:30 where Jesus was talking to the unbelieving Jews. He told them: "I and my Father are One." The Jews were enraged when they heard this statement. According to verse 31, they took each one of them rocks to stone Jesus the Lord.
How did the Lord reach? He asked them why were they stoning him according to verse 32. And they charged him with BLASPHEMY. v.33.
The reason was because they saw Him only as an ordinary man, yet he made calim that He was also God and on the same plane as the Father.
When Jesus said, "I and my Father are one", he did not mean that He was also the Father, or that the Father was Jesus too.
No! Their personal distinction changed not a bit. The Father was still the Father, Jesus was still Jesus, and the Holy Ghost was still the Holy Ghost.
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God bless you!
2007-07-06 09:37:25 · answer #2 · answered by itsme_565 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I pick how John the Baptist saw Him to be. "...Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" John 1:29b, and confirms this again in verse 36. If that was good enough for john I believe its good enough for me as well. These teachings have caused much confusion and division among us as Brothers and Sisters, and it needs to stop before anymore damage is done. I find that in excepting Jesus as as the Lamb of God that died for my sins to be sufficient for now. I am sure that there are many things that we do not understand and also many things that we think we know but don't. Isn't it wonderful that we serve the God that looks at our hearts and realizes that we are just children.
Its not that I don't want to know all I can about Him. But He is a very BIG and its impossible for me to know it all. I look forward to the day when I meet Him face to face and sit around His Throne. But for now I see through a "glass darkly" 1 Cr. 13:12.
We are to be baptized with all Three and cannot live without either of them.
We need the Father because He is God.
We need the Son so that we can be forgiven.
We need the Holy Ghost to lead us into all truth.
These Three become One in us.
2007-07-04 13:48:30 · answer #3 · answered by don_steele54 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He is one of three Persons , Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is Son of God which makes it equivalent to God for He talks of God as His Father.
2007-07-04 13:39:59 · answer #4 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is one of three persons, and he's also the one God. He's also the son of God.
All three persons are the same God. Jesus is the son of the Father, and the Father is God, so Jesus is the son of God, even while being God.
2007-07-04 13:06:00 · answer #5 · answered by Jonathan 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is God, God the Son, and the Son of God. He was God from all eternity (though His name was not "Jesus"). He became Son of God when God caused Mary to become pregnant. In other words, when God became man. In other words, when He became the Christ.
2007-07-04 13:10:33 · answer #6 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe in the triune God head. This is hinted at in the Old Testament "Let us make man" Elohim is used by Jewish scholars (in the time of Jesus) and used in the kjv and others. One source, NWT, uses the name Jehovah. The plurality of God does not require their to be three(3) Goods.
It does mean one God who is plural. The independent personalities God the Father--God the Son--God the Holy Spirit. It is difficult to think God is divided but one. "With God all things are possible." Most denominations accept this as doctrine. There are a few that don't.
2007-07-04 13:24:50 · answer #7 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Im so pleased you have become a Christian.
There is nothing better than living your life for Jesus.
I hope this helps you understand.
God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit
Three in one
All God, but have different functions.
Just like
H20
Water
Ice
Steam
three in one
all have different functions
but all H20
2007-07-04 18:06:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe what the others do.I'm not a Mormon or a J.W. Jesus is the Son of God. Roman 10:9 &10.
GOD BLESS
2007-07-04 14:06:46 · answer #9 · answered by TCC Revolution 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thought he was supposed to be one of the Holy Trinity i.e. God the Father God the So and God the Holy Ghost.
Of course you might ask how three people can be one. Ha!!!
It cannot be explained; like all religious claptrap you are required to have faith.
Not belief, because belief might demand a rational explanation, but faith, which means giving up all your critical and reasoning faculties and just accepting what you are told.
So don''t trouble yourself, it is no more important than asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
2007-07-04 13:08:27 · answer #10 · answered by DavidP 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋