If Jesus said he is not God then how can Jesus be part of the trinity?

Question

Didn't he ask why they call him good and then go on to say that none is good but God.


Hmmm...

Answer 1

Christ’s divinity is shown over and over again in the New Testament. For example, in John 5:18 we are told that Jesus’ opponents sought to kill him because he "called God his Father, making himself equal with God."

In John 8:58, when quizzed about how he has special knowledge of Abraham, Jesus replies, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am"—invoking and applying to himself the personal name of God—"I Am" (Ex. 3:14). His audience understood exactly what he was claiming about himself. "So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple" (John 8:59).

In John 20:28, Thomas falls at Jesus’ feet, exclaiming, "My Lord and my God!" (Greek: Ho Kurios mou kai ho Theos mou—literally, "The Lord of me and the God of me!")

In Philippians 2:6, Paul tells us that Christ Jesus "[w]ho, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped" (New International Version). So Jesus chose to be born in humble, human form though he could have simply remained in equal glory with the Father for he was "in very nature God."

Also significant are passages that apply the title "the First and the Last" to Jesus. This is one of the Old Testament titles of Yahweh: "Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Yahweh of armies: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; besides me there is no god’" (Is. 44:6; cf. 41:4, 48:12).

This title is directly applied to Jesus three times in the book of Revelation: "When I saw him [Christ], I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, ‘Fear not, I am the First and the Last’" (Rev. 1:17). "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the First and the Last, who died and came to life’" (Rev. 2:8). "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the end" (Rev. 22:12–13).

This last quote is especially significant since it applies to Jesus the parallel title "the Alpha and the Omega," which Revelation earlier applied to the Lord God: "‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty" (Rev. 1:8).

Answer 2

From this passage the idea is sometimes taken that Jesus is denying his own goodness, and therefore, throwing out any chance of being recognized as part of the Godhead. The standard explanation is that Jesus is essentially saying to the ruler, "Do you know what you are implying? You say I am good; but only God is good; therefore, you realize that you are identifying me with God?" [Brooks, commentary on Mark, 162] In Jewish thought, God was pre-eminently good, so that the ruler was indeed offering Jesus a compliment usually reserved for God. Since it is quite unlikely that the ruler truly believed that Jesus was identifiable as God the Son, this looks more like an effort by Jesus to make the man think about what he is saying before he blurts it out or engages in indiscriminate flattery.

Answer 3

absolutely not.
John 18:37
"You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."

in this verse Jesus says that He came to into this world. there are more ...but i don't feel like looking them up. read your Bible.

LDS Mom, you are wrong! Christ, God, and the Holy Spirit are One. You need to read the BIBLE, not some "bible" that has been translated by Joseph Smith, not the Book of Mormon, not the Pearl of Great Price, or Divine and Covenants ..those books are heresy! They go DIRECTLY against God's Word, the Truth. my God was not a human at one time in His life. He never achieved godhood ...He has been and always will be. You're not going to be a god someday ...you're beliefs are inconsistent with God's Word, the Holy Bible.

This pisses me off. I'd rather have 20 people tell me God doesn't exist, than have one person take God's Word and twist His Truth. It's so very wrong.

Answer 4

Jesus repeatedly claimed that he was God. Not once but many many times. Hence C. S. Lewis' "trilema".

Read up on some Hebrew tradition and theology the review the "I AM" statements in John. ego imee in the Greek is an emphatic which was a claim of Deity. One example of many possible is:

John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, 1 before Abraham came into existence, I am!” (NET)

You know what he is claiming by the reaction from the Jews. They picked up stones to stone him for what they perceived as Blasphemy.

This is, as I said an explicit claim to Deity. Cross reference Exodus 3:14 to discover who Jesus was claiming to be.

Answer 5

Jesus never said he is not God. Read the book of John in the bible. In those days Jews only bowed to God. No one else. When they bowed and worshiped Jesus he did not stop them. Why? because he is God. He has made it clear many times in John. One statement is "The Father is in me" he sais to his diciples. He is God and the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Jews neevr asked for forgiveness to anyone for the sins but God. yet they asked Jesus for forgiveness and Jesus forgave them. he is the son of God and part of the trinity

Answer 6

You're adding your own bias to create words Jesus never said. I can just as easily say that what he meant, rather than implicit doubt to his own deity, was that the man being rich and perhaps ignorant called Jesus "good" without really knowing what that meant. Jesus then tells him what it means to call someone "good", perhaps to test the man's nature.

Answer 7

Jesus never said that he is God or son of god and that concept of the trinity was introduced to Christianity after 240 years after the death of Jesus (peace be upon him).

Answer 8

Why call Jesus good when he is God in the flesh ? A sinner may be good but God is perfect, sinless and holy.

Answer 9

The Bible says there are three that bear witness in Heaven,
The Father ,The Son, the Holy Spirit...deny that.

Answer 10

wen he was on earth he was a man. went through the same things as us. (must have been hell for him). in heaven he is at the right hand of God. Those who r extra good will also be at the right hand of God.