“and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen” Revelation 1:6 (NIV)
“the God of our Lord Jesus” Ephesians 1:17 (KJV)
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Matthew 27:46 (NIV)
“I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God”. John 20:17 (KJV)
"Here is my servant, whom I uphold” Isaiah 42:1 (NIV)
“When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you" Acts
“Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. Revelation 3:12-14 (NIV)
2007-11-05 02:08:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
that Jesus is a prophet, not God....seriously isnt just easier to think that there is only ONE God instead of 2 or 3??
2007-11-05 09:03:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always believe that God & Jesus are 2 separate entities but not to the point where Jesus is not divine. Jesus, the Son of God, is obviously a God because the son of a God can only be a God. What I believe is that Jesus have full authority under his father for this world & whatever he dictates is done under sanction of God almost as though God himself has done it.
"...I am the way, the truth & the light: no man cometh unto the Father BUT BY ME!" John14:6
Therefore for us in this world God the Father, and Jesus are both one & the same when it comes to our salvation. Because if Jesus doesnt sanction it, u can pray to God until the cows come home, u wont get to him.
I guess that the language barriers in the translations & slang of the peoples in that time make make it appear that Jesus is saying that he is God, but the most of the bible points to otherwise.
2007-11-05 10:41:38 · answer #2 · answered by Ethslan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ is divine... He is the 2nd person of the Trinity... God the Father, God the son and God the Holy Ghost. Rev 1:6 indicates this. The verse in Acts doesn't really do with all the others, b/c it's about Paul, not Christ.
Rev 3:12-14 isn't with the context of the rest of this either. This is for the Church.
all are very good passages, regardless, please be mindful of context, when combining them, ok?
2007-11-05 10:14:36 · answer #3 · answered by JerZey 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That Jesus is talking about the Father calling Him God.. Ok the father is God.. I can show you verses where Jesus Himself claims to be God.. Ok, so Jesus is God. Then I can show you Scripture that says the Holy Spirit is God... Ok so the Holy Spirit is God.. yet the Bible is clear there in only ONE God.. What to do.. Three individual all being called God.. Maybe these three are all the One true God. Seems that what the scripture is calling us to except is the Trinity.. IHS Jim
2007-11-05 10:25:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the first thing that comes to my mind is second hand unverifiable stories that were written long after this supposed jesus guy died if he lived at all
acts was written by paul and he never met this jesus guy revelation was supposedly written by john and its an allegorical story of the roman empire at the time of the first christians its a story about the past not the future
the my god why hast thou forsake me is supposedly a prophecy of the messiah the messiah would say that befroe he died
ephesians same as acts written by paul and last i checked paul wasnt someone the muslims take seriously
see im an atheist and i answred your question but you wont believe me
2007-11-05 10:15:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The bible is ambiguous about the divinity of Jesus. There are just as many verses which suggest Jesus is God. This subject is a perfect example of how strongly people want to bicker with other people about things, no matter how unimportant.
2007-11-05 10:12:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The first thing that comes to mind is how useless it is to attempt to discover the fullness of truth by self-interpretation of selected Bible verses. But then you are not trying to discover the truth. You are just trying to support your own pre-conceived notions.
2007-11-05 10:18:35 · answer #7 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since Jesus has a God, then Jesus can not be God the Almighty.
Please note that the context “of” is the same as “his God and Father”.
Please note that the context always makes the God and Father separate from Lord Jesus.
(John 17:3) 3 This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.
(Romans 15:5-6) 5 Now may the God who supplies endurance and comfort grant YOU to have among yourselves the same mental attitude that Christ Jesus had, 6 that with one accord YOU may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(1 Corinthians 15:24) 24 Next, the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power.
(2 Corinthians 1:3) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,
(2 Corinthians 11:31) 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, even the One who is to be praised forever, knows I am not lying.
(Galatians 1:3-5) 3 May YOU have undeserved kindness and peace from God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ. 4 He gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from the present wicked system of things according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
(Ephesians 1:3) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for he has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in union with Christ,
(Ephesians 1:17) 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give YOU a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the accurate knowledge of him;
(Ephesians 4:6) 6 one God and Father of all [persons], who is over all and through all and in all.
(Ephesians 5:20) 20 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ giving thanks always for all things to our God and Father.
(Philippians 4:20) 20 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
(1 Thessalonians 1:3-4) 3 for we bear incessantly in mind YOUR faithful work and [your] loving labor and [your] endurance due to [your] hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father. 4 For we know, brothers loved by God, his choosing of YOU,
(1 Thessalonians 3:11-13) 11 Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way prosperously to YOU. 12 Moreover, may the Lord cause YOU to increase, yes, make YOU abound, in love to one another and to all, even as we also do to YOU; 13 to the end that he may make YOUR hearts firm, unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the presence of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones.
(James 1:27) 27 The form of worship that is clean and undefiled from the standpoint of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.
(1 Peter 1:3-4) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance. It is reserved in the heavens for YOU,
(Revelation 1:5-6) 1 A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent forth his angel and presented [it] in signs through him to his slave John, 5 . . .To him that loves us and that loosed us from our sins by means of his own blood— 6 and he made us to be a kingdom, priests to his God and Father—yes, to him be the glory and the might forever. Amen.
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2007-11-05 22:29:28 · answer #8 · answered by TeeM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fiction.
2007-11-05 10:12:06 · answer #9 · answered by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Contradictory, and evidence that the "storyline" is not emanating or inspired from a single source.
2007-11-05 10:13:18 · answer #10 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋