If not, then perhaps you should redefine "theist" as "one that believed that there is a power greater (or equal to) himself"... then we'd all be theists... This is sooooo confusing!
2007-11-26 04:45:52 · 12 answers · asked by I'm an Atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I supose god himself was higher than jesus .... but then, jesus was god.... this is so confusing!
2007-11-26 04:50:54 · answer #1 · answered by larissa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus often seemed to indicate that "the Father" was greater than Jesus. There is a lot of evidence in the gospels that Jesus was not the same entity as Jehovah and didn't consider himself to be the same entity.
Here's one example, there are many others as well:
John 14:28
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
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2007-11-26 05:34:48 · answer #2 · answered by Azure Z 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it makes him GOD, the greatest power in the universe. You see, God almighty (the creator God), Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always existed throughout eternity - they are one and the same God. Not a case of 1 + 1 + 1 = 3 but, rather, 1 x 1 x 1 = 1. Jesus was God incarnate, in human form. Although his flesh was put to death and the human died, Jesus Christ rose again on the 3rd day - he was fully human yet fully divine. He was called Immanuel - God with us. Simple!
2007-11-26 04:58:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus didn't believe there was no power greater than himself - he was a law abiding Jew - who worshipped God. What you claim would make him a blasphemer of his time, and would have subjected him to the death penalty by stoning.
2007-11-26 04:53:16 · answer #4 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 04:20:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said his Father was greater for his Father has no beginning and end, and Jesus had a birth and a death, which denotes a time and a place of beginning
2007-11-26 04:50:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There's a line in this old Persian mystical text (Bagh-i-Muattar) that goes "Allah's the atheist! He owns no Allah."
I suppose it's rather the same situation with Jesus, only complicated by the whole Trinity doctrine.
2007-11-26 04:49:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus claimed the Father to be greater than He (Christ) and all the glory was to go to the Father.
Jesus also claimed that the Father is the One true God and that He (Jesus) was the Son of the one true God.
2007-11-26 04:50:30 · answer #8 · answered by LDS~Tenshi~ 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
jesus was a jew
he believed in god as a whole, as far as i know
his own personal god that lives in all of us.
2007-11-26 04:50:06 · answer #9 · answered by devinthedragon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No because JEsus knew he was = with God and is God at the same time.
2007-11-26 04:52:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋