I find it strange that some Christians say that Jesus is God, some Say that Jesus is the son of God, and some say that God is one of three Gods. Why the huge difference in the core of this religion? How come these three totally different believes still go under the name of christianity? And how did that happen?
2007-10-01 13:06:40 · 13 answers · asked by Nova 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What does the Bible say? Is there ANY verse where Jesus comes out and says: "I am God"? NOT ONE! At John 10:33, Jesus' enemies said to him: "Although you are a man, you make yourself God." Did Jesus agree? No! He first cited Ps. 82:6, where human judges were called "gods" by Almighty God himself. He then reasoned with his enemies by saying that if it was not blasphemy for calling human judges "gods," where then was the blasphemy when he called himself the Son of God. John10:34-36.
Jesus NEVER called himself God, not even at John 8:58. Instead, he called his Father the ONLY TRUE GOD at John 17:3.
To say Jesus was both God and the Son of God would also mean that Jesus was his own Father AND his own Son. Does that make sense?
2007-10-01 13:18:56 · answer #1 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Did Jesus ever say that he was God? No, he never did. Rather, in the Bible he is called “God’s Son.” And he said: “The Father is greater than I am.” Also, Jesus explained that there were some things that neither he nor the angels knew but that only God knew. (Mark 13:32) Further, on one occasion Jesus prayed to God, saying: “Let, not my will, but yours take place.” (Luke 22:42) If Jesus were the Almighty God, he would not have prayed to himself, would he? In fact, following Jesus’ death, the Scripture says: “This Jesus God resurrected.” (Acts 2:32) Thus the Almighty God and Jesus are clearly two separate persons.
Thus, he is called the “firstborn,” the “only-begotten.” When a child is the firstborn, the only-begotten, it never means that the child is the same as the father. It always means that there are two different personalities involved, father and child.
2007-10-01 17:31:30 · answer #2 · answered by BJ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is God . Jesus the Son of God is Jesus in human flesh. God the Father , God the Son , God the Holy Spirit . Look up 1 John 5:7
2007-10-01 13:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
If you don't believe, you will never understand. There are 3 different for the lack of a better word, "Beings" to God. They are all God. They just have different jobs.
God the Father-Calls the people
God the Son-Saves the people
God the holy Spirit-gives direction to people.
that's the easiest way I can break it down.
How did it happen, I have no idea, and don't really care how it happened...hope that helps
2007-10-01 13:13:00 · answer #4 · answered by Casey M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
thru the reformation.
the protestants didnt always believe in the concept of the trinity. The catholic church came out with it as a dogma. The beleif that God is God in three persons, all being equal and all one, Jesus said he who sees me sees the father, the holy spirit is the love between the father and the son.
2007-10-01 13:13:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's called the trinity. Father, Spirit, and Son. Father: God, Spirit: Holy Spirit, Son: Jesus. Together they are ONE. Thats why Jesus is known as God
2007-10-01 13:11:48 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They are the same. It is the same to say Jesus is the Son or Jesus is God or they are the trinity and are one God.
These are not many beliefs but one belief.
You are made in this image of God ,Flesh spirit and soul...each are you. They are each parts of the whole of you.
If you meet God after your death and are in spirit would it be someone else meeting God or would it still be you?
2007-10-01 13:12:53 · answer #7 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
‘Christ according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the holy Ghost the third. Each of these three persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy Ghost proceeded form the Father and Son, but was an equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say before he existed, but he is of the same age as the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.’
- Col. Robert G. Ingersoll
God is not the author of confusion (I Cor. 14:33)
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2007-10-01 13:09:39 · answer #8 · answered by Mithrianity 3 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Christ, according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the Holy Ghost the third. Each of these three persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten -- just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father and Son, but was equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say, before he existed, but he is of the same age of the other two.
So, it is declared that the Father is God, and the Son God and the Holy Ghost God, and that these three Gods make one God.
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.
--Robert G. Ingersoll, 1895
2007-10-01 13:10:48 · answer #9 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Jesus is God.
Jesus also is the Son of God.
God is triune. There is one God, but 3 persons.
2007-10-01 13:20:18 · answer #10 · answered by Doma 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋