@SWORD of GOD,
SWORD of GOD;12910 wrote:If Jesus was GOD ...
1- If Jesus was GOD, then why in Mark 12:29 Jesus said "Here, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord." The words "our God" indicate that Jesus had a higher God over him, a stronger God than him. Jesus didn't say "Your God". He said "our God" which includes Jesus as the creation of GOD.
2- If Jesus was GOD, then why in John 20:17 Jesus said I ascend to my God and your God? This tells us that we and Jesus have a common GOD.
3- If Jesus was GOD, then why in John 8:28 Jesus said "I do nothing of myself"? Can't GOD do anything he wills?
4- If Jesus was GOD, then why in John 14:28 Jesus said "My Father (GOD) is greater than I"?
5- If Jesus was GOD, then why in Luke 23:46 Jesus said "Father (GOD), into thy hands I commend my spirit"?
6- If Jesus was GOD, then why in Matthew 19:16 Jesus said "Why call me good, there is none good but One, that is GOD"?
7- If Jesus was GOD, then why in Matthew 26:39 Jesus begged his GOD to have mercy on him and to pass the cup to death (kill Jesus in another words) before Jesus goes through the pain of crucifixion?
8- If Jesus was GOD, then why in John 18:38 he didn't reply when he was asked about the truth?
9- If Jesus was GOD, then why in Matthew 24:36 Jesus told his followers that no one (including Jesus) knows when the judgment day will come, only GOD knows?
10- If Jesus was GOD, then why in Isiah 11:2-3 GOD had put the spirit of fearing GOD in Jesus?
11- If Jesus was GOD, then why in John 5:31 Jesus told his followers that if he (Jesus) bears witness of himself, then his record is not true?
12- If Jesus was GOD, then why in John 5:30 Jesus told his followers that he can't do a single thing of his own initiative?
13- If Jesus was GOD, then why in John 5:36-38 Jesus said that GOD had assigned him (Jesus) work and GOD is a witness on Jesus?
14- If Jesus was GOD, then why in John 5:32 Jesus told his followers that they have never seen GOD at anytime nor ever heard his voice?
15- If Jesus was GOD, then why did he pray to his GOD in Luke 5:16?
16- If Jesus was GOD, then why in Matthew 26:39 Jesus fell on his face and prayed to his GOD?
1. Jesus did have a higher authority....Father God. There is ONE GOD...consisting of 3 divine personalities with Father God having all Final Authority, who temporarily gave All authority to his ONLY BEGOTTEN SON (John 1), Jesus -- Matthew 28:18. Until such time as all His enemies would be placed under His feet..aka the final judgment and then the kingdom and authority will be given back to the Father -- l Cor. 15:24-28. One God is like One Family, are you suggesting that no entity that contains more than one individual can not still be called by a single name? In the Scriptures this terminology is know as the Godhead, which the scriptures speak of in detail -- Acts 17:9, Rom. 1:20 Col. 2:9. Yet, all three, The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost can and are addressed as God in the Scriptures...because they are a part of the Godhead. Even in the Old Scriptures it is foretold of a son who would be given all rule and be addressed as GOD, "For us a child is born, to us a son is GIVEN, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Might God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace." -- Isaiah 9:6
2. Yes, as explained...we and Jesus do have a common God, Father God who had only one BEGOTTEN SON...JESUS, who was given all authority in heaven and on earth, "....All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." -- Matthew 28:18. Just who do you suspect that Jesus was praying to...HIMSELF? In the scriptures we can see ALL THREE PARTS OF THE GODHEAD working in harmony and proving that all 3 are separate and distinct. Notice at the baptism of Jesus. The heavens opened up and the Spirit was descending upon Jesus in the form of a Dove. Father God spoke from heaven at the same time and said, This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, all the while Jesus is in the water, coming up out. -- Matthew 3:16-17.
3. No...Jesus works in harmony with Father God and the Holy Spirit, ALWAYS, with all 3 forming the ONE ENTITY known as God. Just as any Son would consult his father before entering into any important decision.....Jesus prayed to His Father.
4. Asked and answered. The Father is greater than Jesus, His Son...aka Prince (of Peace), but the Prince also was temporarily given all authority -- Matt. 28:18. Until such time as All enemies are placed under His foot, then the Father will be all and all once again -- l Cor. 15:24-28
5. The scriptures tell us that all Spirits go back to God, form which they came. Remember Jesus was flesh and also carried another title THE SON OF MAN. By Commending His spirit to God, this simply means that Jesus was giving Himself totally to His Father...God. -- Ecclesiastes 12:6-7, "....and the spirit will return to God who gave it."
6. While Jesus was in the flesh, corruption was still possible, even though Jesus walked His entire life without sin (Heb. 4:15).....He was subject to the same emotions, pains, and sufferings and temptations as all of us. Yet, the scriptures clearly tell us that He was made lower than the angels and equal with men while in the flesh, "Who being in the form of God (JESUS), thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, (not a good master, but one who serves), and was made in the likeness of men; And being found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." -- Philippians 2:6-8. Thus, at the time the question was asked (before the cross), there was only one good master.... Father God, as Jesus was still in the flesh and not upon the throne of David which he would ascend upon his death, bringing in the last Covenant between God and Man -- Acts 2:22-36.
7. What makes you assume that Jesus was asking to be killed? He was tempted in every way, as all of us -- Heb. 4:15. He, like any of us facing certain death was fearful. Jesus, was not looking forward to what He knew was coming, for it was His commissioned work on earth, the pain and the suffering that was to come, but in the end He completely trusted His Father and followed through on His work, the prayer was for strength and reassurance. I enjoy your narrative of adding just a little twist, suggesting that Jesus was asking for permission to kill himself. Typical.
8. The question asked by Pilate was one that needed no response from the Christ, Pilate did not expect an answer for he believed as all Romans of that time believed, there was no ABSOLUTE TRUTH, that truth was RELATIVE to perception, like most secular types today...it was a hypothetical, more of a statement than a question. But, Jesus who knew the hearts of all men, did answer, if you would but read a little farther along, "Thou, couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above; therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin." -- Matthew 19:11
9. Perhaps it is because ONLY THE FATHER, who holds the ultimate authority of the Godhead, was the only one that knew when HE PLANNED to end the last age of mankind....just as the Christ told them.
10. Jesus was ALSO A MAN (The Son of Man) and did have fear, pain, emotions, temptations (Heb 4:15, Phil 2:5-8)....it had to be as such for A MAN had to walk upon the earth WITHOUT SINNING in order to fulfill the Old Law, with a Perfect Sacrifice for all mankind. For men where always breaking the Covenant of God, even though He was Husbanded to them -- Jer.31:32
11. If He SIMPLY WERE TO TELL EVERYONE OF HIS DEEDS, instead of demonstrating the fact that His message was indeed from God by presenting the signs and wonders that accompany all such messages from God...How would any believe Him? Thus, He demonstrates the power of God to confirm His word by the witness of others...not simply of His own speech. Many false prophets were in the world, thus Jesus told them He could prove that His words came from God. He was not suggesting that He was lying, but to the contrary, because the signs and wonders accompanied His words.....He was showing them, that He was speaking truth. Father God was bearing witness of His works, with the signs and wonders -- John 5:32.
12. Self explained. He (Jesus) was commissioned to do the work of His Father, and by Himself in the flesh could do nothing but, when the Spirit fell upon Him, He had the Spirit without measure -- John 3:34. Confirmed by the Christ Himself -- Matthew 28:18. Being a part of the Godhead (the Word), Jesus, always worked in harmony with the Father and the Holy Spirit, and does nothing that would not be as such as the will of the Father.
13. Again, see above. Asked and answered.
14. I for one do not know just how you plan on spinning this, as John 5:32 is clearly relating to Father God witnessing the commissioned work of the Christ with signs and wonders. In fact, Jesus clearly told his followers, who asked the same question, That if you have seen ME (Jesus), you have seen (God) for Jesus indeed, was a part of the Godhead -- John 10:30, "I and my Father are one." No one has seen Father God (John 1:18), for God is a Spirit -- John 4:24.
15. Asked and answered....He was praying to Father God, who still was in Heaven and never left Heaven while the Christ was on earth, "And lo a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." -- Matthew 3:17.
16. Again...circular reasoning. Staying with your predisposed position that God cannot exist as 3 separate individual deities making up ONE GODHEAD...aka GOD. But, the scriptures clearly point out that in fact there are 3 that bear record in heaven and form ONE GODHEAD. "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, The Word (Jesus), and the Holy Ghost; AND THESE THREE ARE ONE. l John 5:7.
This indeed was a long "shopping list" of parroted questions....ALL ASKING THE SAME THING. A typical ploy of the secular type....present a long, time consuming list, that any Sunday School student could answer in hopes of taking up the time of an individual to overwhelm his patience. And then declaring victory though BOREDOM. A paste and run. With no real intent of really wanting to let the scriptures lead to edification. (RD)