John's Gospel says that by Jesus' miracles, he revealed his glory. Post resurrection, John says that by these records we may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Do the miracles also support the belief that Jesus was also Son of Man? What do the miracles tell us?
2007-12-01 22:29:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you Jenny, for your comment - have a thumbs up from me. To the others who choose to mock and pour scorn on Christian beliefs, I have resisted the temptation to give you a thumbs down. Oh, and I have done considerable research on this subject - looking at arguments for and against the miracles of Jesus.
The question isn't about whether Jesus performed these miracles or not. The question is what were these miracles a sign of? Do they help us to identify the divine nature of Jesus? Check out the parallels to be found in the Old Testament.
2007-12-02 04:06:42 · update #1
The Jews living during the time of Jesus ministry were perfectly aware of the oppression caused by Roman rule. They believed (from the Old Testament) that God would send a Messiah who would liberate them from bondage. Even his disciples thought they were going to help overthrow the government. They were wrong. It was never Jesus purpose to lead a rebellion against the Roman authorities. However, he did preach about the coming Kingdom of God.
2007-12-02 04:10:30 · update #2
Whilst it is true that Islam recognises Jesus was a prophet and performed miracles of healing, of controling the elements and of raising the dead, they deny his resurrection. I am afraid that I cannot recognise the Jesus of the Quran because he bears no resemblance to the Jesus of the New Testament.
When Jesus turned the water into wine at the wedding feast at Cana, John wrote: "He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him." Critically, after Jesus was resurrected, John said that "these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name."
There is an interesting reference to the "Son of Man" in Daniel 7:9-14: 'he was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all... worshipped him.' This is a prophecy about Jesus. This tells us he is redeemer, saviour and judge. This tells us we must worship him. And because he is God, then there is no polytheism involved. Immanuel, God with us.
2007-12-03 04:32:17 · update #3
Immanuel = God with us
Immanuel meant that God would dwell among mankind in fleshly form. This is reinterated by being call Son of man.
Isaiah declared this:
Isaiah 7:14, "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel."
God comes to dwell among us in the form of a man - birth of Jesus:
Matthew 1:
22-23, All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 'The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel' which means, 'God with us'.
There were those that did not follow Jesus no matter what Jesus said or done before their very eyes. Who would these be?
Here are three related places in which Jesus discusses this:
Luke 11:
49 “For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute, 50 so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’
Matthew 13:
36 ...Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.” 37 And He said, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, 38 and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one; 39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.
Revelation 2:
9 ‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
The children of Satan recognized YahShua(Jesus) as "God among us" because they too seen and knew of His miracles. They knew of the lame man that he cured and that Yahshua told him to take up his be and walk - so they believed and knew but played pharasaical games of law because they were "children of the adversary".
Herod too was aware of the miracle of Yahshua's birth into flesh and had many many male children put to death.
What do the miracles tell us?
John 3:16 For God so loved the world...
Jesus our Messiah loves His children as a human father loves his children.
The miracles were many things though the first and foremost is that they were gifts of love.
2007-12-02 12:21:50 · answer #1 · answered by troll to troll 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Princess,
They were intended to show that He was indeed the promised messiah of Israel.
Remember when John the Baptist had doubts and wondered if they should "look for another", Jesus referred him to His miracles as proof that He was doing the works of God, and was the Promised One.
To all those who posted answers mocking the fact that He actually did miracles;
Even His enemies could not, and did not, deny the fact that He DID them. They just tried to say that He was doing them "by the power of Satan".
For you to suggest that you know more than the people of His day, who actually saw and experienced them, is laughable.
You are displaying an ignorance that would actually be funny if it wasnt so tragic.
As Jesus said of the unbelievers of His day: "They strain at a gnat and swallow a camel".
He says the same about you. "Blind Guides".
Hearts that are spiritually dead have eyes that are spiritually blind.
theBerean
2007-12-02 13:45:31 · answer #2 · answered by theBerean 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is my truth, your truth, the truth, we should each respect
each others truth, with out nasty words and putting people's belief down. If I choose to believe in Jesus Christ as the son of God that is my right, if you don't that is your right. People
should learn to agree to disagree and let it go. Repeaters on this site of name calling are as boreing as a broken record.
Would be nice to hear your views without so much anger and
nasty names. There is enough war out and around us.
As to the Q-------------I try to live a day at a time, and not second guess the God of my understanding, and I do believe in miracles.
2007-12-02 01:08:16 · answer #3 · answered by jenny 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The miracles spoken of and the Gospel of John are his attestment that Jesus, the man, was the Christ, the one Nexus between God and man; the Christ was the bridge bringing mankind back to God in "full circle".
See, God IS the beggining of consciousness.
God is ALL things, a portion thereof.
Mankind is God electing to experience the third demensional realm of the physical; mankind has there own identification and this is grounded within the Ego, or self. A simple tool of the physical world allowing mankind to have an individual identity, but still be a portion of the devine.
The Ego over-developes and mankind "forgets" they are of a spiritual nature; in short, the Ego creats the self as a liar placing physical needs over spritual truths.
Jesus was the first western-interpreted incarnate to fully exprience the physcal world, Learn of his spritual nature and thus return to the awarness realm finding God;
Jesus made it crystal clear this "Christ" awarness belonged to you by right and he was not "special" in the sense as being the "Only" son of man, son of God" as we were all "Gods in the making".
The kingdom of God is not coming to anyone, Everyone is Going to the kingdom of God and there is a vast difference.
Edgar Cayce, a great Medium once said: " we grow to heaven, we do not "Go" to heaven.
Jesus Ascended to God, and found him and "remembered" his origin as you will and others have.
The "Satan" aspect of reality, others onbviously deem them actual beings, they are not and this is a spritual retardation of truth; a fundementalist view always appears to lean towards a Tangible idea far outside of the spritual truth that was intended.
Satan, a term, was an evolution of the idea of Ego, the liar.
For those whom call you ignorant, smile and "turn your cheek" as they hold little truth in self or the true nature of reality.
Nothing within the spritual works of ISA (Jesus is a latin translation as is Immanual) teach anything but works of the spirit; out of the few attestments of ISA within the "Chrstian" bible, there are hundreds whom attested to the works of ISA and there is alot of truth within each; Rome, the Vatican, picked and choose which attestments they wanted and poof "a bible", everything else hit the cutting room floor and was editied out, ignored or destroyed if possible to allow Rome to have there own version of truth to manipulate.
For those whom preach fire and brimstone they preach from a distortion of interpretations and languages left to the attestments of a handfull of hundreds whom experienced Jesus, ISA.
2007-12-03 03:06:37 · answer #4 · answered by Adonai 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First Jesus is not the son of God,he is one of his Prophets,and every Profit has a miracle So that his people will agree that he got something up normal and the miracles differs from a prophet to other depending on the culture that he sent for......(Jesus in medical ,Moses in Magic ,Muhammad in language0 and if you notice that each one got miracle in the thing that his people known of.
Thanks
2007-12-01 23:01:03 · answer #5 · answered by Nabeel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The miracle stories - as was the custom of the time - are there to assert Jesus's status as a prophet and, for some, as the Messiah.
2007-12-02 00:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by Martin 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People who believe they were real miracles are ignorent because they have failed to properly research the origins of this religion. The blind were the people who could not see that they were being oppressed, so the man you now call jesus made people see they were being oppressed he did not actually make the blind see. The deaf were those who could not hear that they are being oppressed by the Roman Empire. He tried to make them realise by telling them they were being oppressed and those who understood are the ones who could hear again. So to were the sick those being enslaved, healing them were freeing them from mental slavery, etc, etc, etc. Do thorough research before you preach bullshit!!!
2007-12-01 22:39:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
FYI, the term 'Son Of God' is actually equal to that of 'Son Of Man'. It shows that Jesus is 100% God and 100% man too.
2007-12-02 01:01:32 · answer #8 · answered by Michaelangelo77 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They tell us for God's power.They want to teach us that if we believe in God miracles can happen in everyones heart.
2007-12-01 22:36:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What miracles? The one's you've actually seen and can't scientifically explain or the ones you've read / heard about,which haven't happened at all.
2007-12-01 22:40:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋