Contradiction in the Bible? Is Jesus God?

Question

According to the Bible
Matthew 27:46 (King James Version)

"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

The Bible also says in

John 10:30 (King James Version)

"I and my Father are one."

If Jesus is God why is he saying God has forsaken him? Does not seem very logical to me.

Answer 1

Did Jesus Christ (pbuh) claimed Divinity?
The major difference between Islam and Christianity is the Christians’ insistence on the supposed divinity of Christ (pbuh). A study of the Christian scriptures reveals that Jesus (pbuh) never claimed divinity. In fact there is not a single unequivocal statement in the entire Bible where Jesus (pbuh) himself says, "I am God" or where he says, "worship me". In fact the Bible contains statements attributed to Jesus (pbuh) in which he preached quite the contrary. The following statements in the Bible are attributed to Jesus Christ (pbuh):
(i) "My Father is greater than I."[The Bible, John 14:28]
(ii) "My Father is greater than all."[The Bible, John 10:29]
(iii) "…I cast out devils by the Spirit of God…." [The Bible, Mathew 12:28]
(iv) "…I with the finger of God cast out devils…." [The Bible, Luke 11:20]
(v) "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." [The Bible, John 5:30]

What was The Mission of Jesus Christ (pbuh)?
Jesus (pbuh) never claimed divinity for himself. He clearly announced the nature of his mission. Jesus (pbuh) was sent by God to confirm the previous Judaic law. This is clearly evident in the following statements attributed to Jesus (pbuh) in the Gospel of Mathew:
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
"Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
"For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven." [Mathew 5:17-20]

Who sent Jesus pbuh?
The Bible mentions the prophetic nature of Jesus (pbuh) mission in the following verses:
(i) "… and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me."[ John 14:24]
(ii) "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent." [The Bible, John 17:3]

Did Jesus Refuted even the Remotest Suggestion of his Divinity?
Consider the following incident mentioned in the Bible: "And behold, one came and said unto him, ‘Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?’ And he said unto him, ‘Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.’ " [The Bible, Mathew 19:16-17]
Jesus (pbuh) did not say that to have the eternal life of paradise, man should believe in him as Almighty God or worship him as God, or believe that Jesus (pbuh) would die for his sins. On the contrary he said that the path to salvation was through keeping the commandments. It is indeed striking to note the difference between the words of Jesus Christ (pbuh) and the Christian dogma of salvation through the sacrifice of Jesus (pbuh).

Was Jesus (pbuh) of Nazareth a Man Approved of God?
The following statement from the Bible supports the Islamic belief that Jesus (pbuh) was a prophet of God. "Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know." [The Bible, Acts 2:22]

The Bible does not support the Christian belief in trinity at all. One of the scribes once asked Jesus (pbuh) as to which was the first commandment of all, to which Jesus (pbuh) merely repeated what Moses (pbuh) had said earlier: "Shama Israelu Adonai Ila Hayno Adonai Ikhad."
This is a Hebrew quotation, which means: "Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord."
[The Bible, Mark 12:29]

CONCEPT OF GOD IN OLD TESTAMENT:
God is One. "Shama Israelu Adonai Ila Hayno Adna Ikhad". It is a Hebrew quotation which means: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord" [The Bible, Deuteronomy 6:4]
Unity of God in the Book of Isaiah. The following verses are from the Book of Isaiah:
"I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour." [The Bible, Isaiah 43:11]
"I am Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me." [, Isaiah 45:5]
"I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me." [Isaiah 46:9]
Old Testament condemns idol worship in the following verses:
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:" "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God." [The Bible, Exodus 20:3-5]
A similar message is repeated in the book of Deuteronomy:
"Thou shalt have none other gods before me." "Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that in the earth beneath, or that is in the water beneath the earth." "Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God." [The Bible, Deuteronomy 5:7-9]

Answer 2

Jesus never said He was God, He didn't have to. But He says "do as I say", not as He does (Luke 6:46) What did He say?.......you can find it in Rev 3:12. Jesus could do nothing, but all things are possible through God and Jesus is One with God (Mark 9:23, John 10:30). Everything God has created is clean, doesn't matter what you eat, it matters what you speak (Acts 10:10-16, Romans 14:14, Matt 15:18). If Jesus was not perfect, how come He had no sin? Jesus is the right arm of God and was there from the very beginning (Ex. 23:20-21, 23). All Christians don't wear crosses, and the ones who do wear them don't worship them I would hope.

Answer 3

Yeah, Christ is God. The rest of the worlds religions are wrong and Christianity is right on that point. Sorry but thats the way it is, politically correct or not the truth is a terrible thing. If it's any consolation, Christians are just as lost and depraved as non-Christians, the only difference is Christians have a savior.

God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, three persons in one God. The Trinity is the manner in which us Christian's get our little minds around the concept of God. Each is God, much like your arm, your leg and your head are all you.

It's really pretty simple, you either have faith or you don't. Arguing about an infinite being is foolish, our little minds cannot comprend God any more than a painting can understand Picassio. Us trying to understand God is like trying to shove the ocean into a coffee cup, the cup just isn't up to the task.

You can however understand yourself.

I define myself as a servant of the Most High God (the Father) who owes his salvation to Jesus Christ (the Son) and who owes any understanding to the Holy Spirit of that Trinity I mentioned in the first paragraph. I helps to remember who you are at times.

Christ asks God the Father "why have you forsaken me" for the same reason Hemingway's character Santiago in the classic "Old Man and The Sea" asks his hand why it's cramping and talks to it as if it could understand him. It would be like you saying my heart belives, but my mind says it's not possible. Both your heart and your mind are still you, and the fact that Faith is illogical doesn't make it less a gift from God.

It's called semantics and quoting out of context. You can twist words to make them mean anything you want them to if you know enough about language.

It still doesn't change the truth, and like it or not Christ is God.

Answer 4

I suppose it's because they're different but the same. Jesus is God become man and so man's god is also his God. I've always assumed that the Father was the senior (so to speak) part of the trinity, and so saw it as a sign of respect - just using a different word and a different term from when he addessed him as Father. If you have a god that is a trinity, how else would you expect the consituent parts to address each other?

Answer 5

The humanity of Christ is crying out to the Deity of the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Jesus is God, and it is written in Isaiah "Unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and he shall be called many names." Two of those names are "Mighty God" and "Everlasting Father."
It is written in the Old Testament "They will mourn me whom they have pierced Saith Jehovah." How can you pierce spirit? Unless that spirit has become flesh.
"In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God and the word became flesh and dwelled among us."

Answer 6

Jesus is both God and Man. It was jesus humanity that was crying out to God. When he was on the cross, He became sin for every man. God is holy, sin cannot stand in his presence. When God saw jesus, all he saw was sin. Thats where the "why have thou forsake" Part came in. and as far as Jesus being God, Wasnt his resurrection proof in itself?

Answer 7

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Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Jhn 14:7 ¶ If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.


Jhn 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.


Jhn 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Shew us the Father?


Jhn 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.


Jhn 14:11 Believe me that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

Answer 8

There is no contradiction in the Bible the contradiction is in the way it is interpreted by people.
Jesus never did claim to be God and even though in John10:33 He said that he and the Father are one, does that mean that he is here saying that he is God? No, THAT text, at John 10:30, is often cited to support the Trinity, even though no third person is mentioned there. But Jesus himself showed what he meant by his being "one" with the Father. At John 17:21, 22, he prayed to God that his disciples "may all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am in union with you, that they also may be in union with us, . . . that they may be one just as we are one." Was Jesus praying that all his disciples would become a single entity? No, obviously Jesus was praying that they would be united in thought and purpose, as he and God were.—See alsoCorinthians 1:10). No, Jesus claimed that he was, not God the Son, but the Son of God. (John10:36) God said that Jesus is his Son(Matthew3:16,17)

Answer 9

You fail to understand the dual nature of Jesus. He was both true God and true man. Those words from the cross were spoken from the man's point of view.

Allow me to illustrate His dual nature:

Do you believe Jesus is the lamb of God? John 1:29

Do you believe Jesus is the good shepherd? John 10:11

You no doubt answered yes to both questions. But how can He be both the lamb and the shepherd? The same way He can be both man and God.

Answer 10

at that point Jesus Christ becomes sin for mankind. Since there is no sin in God, God at that point turned his back on Jesus

Answer 11

It is something that Christians have to believe without even understanding:

Jesus is GOD
Father is GOD
Holy Spirit is GOD

The three Co-Exist, and speak to each others.

Then, at the end you have to understand that it is 3 Gods, but one !!

Don't ask questions, either you believe it or you are not questions.

I talked to preachers who, after failing to explain it, said: you just have to believe!!