Christians - Jesus is God, but how, if he is God's son?

Question

this is all new to me.

Answer 1

This is a great mystery, Jesus has to be revealed to you.

1 Timothy 3:16
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead.

Colossians 2:8-10

8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:


Jesus is God.

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.

Isaiah says Jesus is a "son" "mighty God" and "everlasting Father". Don't let it confuse you. Remember great is the mystery of God.


Jesus is the Word of God. The Word was made flesh.

John 1:1-14

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14And the Word was made 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.

Answer 2

It's explained here:
John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.

3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.


He was promised to come to the Earth to be the way we must go in that he is the one we should trust. The Old Testament is full of things that tell us this, and the New Testament is about what he did and said in order to fulfill those things.

He came into the world and provided the offering to God the Father which God found acceptable.
He was the 'propitiation'.

Propitiation

that by which God is rendered propitious, i.e., by which it becomes consistent with his character and government to pardon and bless the sinner. The propitiation does not procure his love or make him loving; it only renders it consistent for him to execise his love towards sinners. In Rom. 3:25 and Heb. 9:5 (A.V., "mercy-seat") the Greek word _hilasterion_ is used. It is the word employed by the LXX. translators in Ex. 25:17 and elsewhere as the equivalent for the Hebrew _kapporeth_, which means "covering," and is used of the lid of the ark of the covenant (Ex. 25:21; 30:6). This Greek word (hilasterion) came to denote not only the mercy-seat or lid of the ark, but also propitation or reconciliation by blood. On the great day of atonement the high priest carried the blood of the sacrifice he offered for all the people within the veil and sprinkled with it the "mercy-seat," and so made propitiation. In 1 John 2:2; 4:10, Christ is called the "propitiation for our sins." Here a different Greek word is used (hilasmos). Christ is "the propitiation," because by his becoming our substitute and assuming our obligations he expiated our guilt, covered it, by the vicarious punishment which he endured. (Comp. Heb. 2:17, where the expression "make reconciliation" of the A.V. is more correctly in the R.V. "make propitiation.")

Answer 3

Jesus is God. Dont let this issue confuse you as you know God is all powerful, hence nothing is impossible to Him. He was revealed in the flesh for many reasons, one most important is to bring salvation. Also, this is one way of showing to mankind by leaving an example on the way of life that we should live as sons of God, but it doesnt mean that when He was revealed on the flesh, He is no longer the true God. There is only one God that should be worshipped (I Cor. 8:4-6) and other than Him, there is no one else.

Answer 4

We are all Sons of God, but Jesus is the physical aspect of God and he is God's Son just as we are. God created Jesus to gain mobility from his fixed position.

Answer 5

The Trinity of the Godhead - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct persons who are one God. A futile earthly comparison would be water, ice and gas, all are the one but three separate.

There is a verse in the Bible that says - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)

This verse speaks of Jesus, the son. Jesus is the Word of God made flesh. Jesus decided to come to earth in the form of a human to take upon himself all sin and die for us to defeat death.

It is no accident that at the begining of the bible in Genesis it reads - Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground (Gen. 1:26)

Note - Let US and in OUR image.

Answer 6

The.... Christian Version:

Jesus is the Son of GOD. he made Jesus in order for us to relate to HIM not HIM relating to us (remember word turned into flesh?!?) Though we call HIM the SON of GOD, HE is still a GOD just in a human form (this is not like hercules). there is also another which is call the HOLY SPIRIT. now, this is the three divine persons, father, son and holy spirit.

Though they're called the HOLY Trinity, they are still one. one can't be removed, THEY work together. This is the stuff we humans (as they say) can't understand and way beyond our minds because this is god stuff.


My Version:

I think this is just a big rubbish. as they say, one of the many contradictions in the bible.

And if you question, don't believe and don't understand, the church would say that you're just an idiot.

this is what they'll implement on our minds. if you don't understand, then you're an idiot. just like in the story or "The Emperor's New Clothes".

Answer 7

well according to Christianity Jesus is his own father his own son and his own mother (Holy spirit)

they claim that if you don´t accept that you are lack of faith.

that is called TRINITY

THE Roman Catholic Church states: "The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion . . . Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: 'the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God.' In this Trinity . . . the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent."—The Catholic Encyclopedia.

Nearly all other churches in Christendom agree. For example, the Greek Orthodox Church also calls the Trinity "the fundamental doctrine of Christianity," even saying: "Christians are those who accept Christ as God." In the book Our Orthodox Christian Faith, the same church declares: "God is triune. . . . The Father is totally God. The Son is totally God. The Holy Spirit is totally God."

Thus, the Trinity is considered to be "one God in three Persons." Each is said to be without beginning, having existed for eternity. Each is said to be almighty, with each neither greater nor lesser than the others.

http://www.watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm

Answer 8

OK so God is God, right? Well God was seperated from man because he can't look upon sin. So God being all powerful, came up with a plan. He send Jesus to the earth to die for our sins to bridge the gap between him and man due to sin. Jesus covers sin...But Jesus is God in the form of man. Jesus is still God, just in the form of man. Like ice still being water, just in the form of a solid. Then when Jesus ascended into heaven after his ressurrection, God sent the Holy Spirit to follow Jesus. The Holy Spirit is God in the form of a Spirit that is here to dwell in us. God being in constant communion with us and comforting us. Picture it like water again...but evaporated. Humitidy is still water, but in the evaporated form. All of these are God. But just different avenues of creation and communication. Does this help?

Answer 9

Jesus is God's Son--PERIOD! 1 John 5:5 says: "Who is the one that conquers the world but he who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

Jesus is God's Son, NOT God.

Answer 10

God is the father & jesus is the son jesus is not god.

Answer 11

The trinity is mans teaching. The bible teaches that Jesus is Gods Son