Are there Christian sects believing Jesus is not God?
Does the Eastern Orthodox Church believe that Jesus is just a fully evolved person rather than God? What about the Egyptian Coptics?
2012-06-13T12:12:22Z
Some of your answers are very educational. I certainly agree that nothing in the Bible suggests that Jesus IS God or that no ordinary person could achieve his level of development. My reading of the Bible is that Jesus is an example of what each of us could become. I wonder how the idea of "Jesus is God" or is the "Son of God" (differently from each of us being children of God) came into being.
?2012-06-13T07:52:31Z
Favorite Answer
According to "Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site"
Not a Plural God -============== JESUS called God "the only true God." (John 17:3) Never did he refer to God as a deity of plural persons. That is why nowhere in the Bible is anyone but Jehovah called Almighty. Otherwise, it voids the meaning of the word "almighty." Neither Jesus nor the holy spirit is ever called that, for Jehovah alone is supreme. At Genesis 17:1 he declares: "I am God Almighty." And Exodus 18:11 says: "Jehovah is greater than all the other gods." ---------------------------- Jesus, no more and no less than a perfect human, became a ransom that compensated exactly for what Adam lost—the right to perfect human life on earth. So Jesus could rightly be called "the last Adam" by the apostle Paul, who said in the same context: "Just as in Adam all are dying, so also in the Christ all will be made alive." (1 Corinthians 15:22, 45) The perfect human life of Jesus was the "corresponding ransom" required by divine justice—no more, no less. A basic principle even of human justice is that the price paid should fit the wrong committed.
-------------- If Jesus, however, were part of a Godhead, the ransom price would have been infinitely higher than what God's own Law required. (Exodus 21:23-25; Leviticus 24:19-21) It was only a perfect human, Adam, who sinned in Eden, not God. So the ransom, to be truly in line with God's justice, had to be strictly an equivalent—a perfect human, "the last Adam." Thus, when God sent Jesus to earth as the ransom, he made Jesus to be what would satisfy justice, not an incarnation, not a god-man, but a perfect man, "lower than angels." (Hebrews 2:9; compare Psalm 8:5, 6.) How could any part of an almighty Godhead—Father, Son, or holy spirit—ever be lower than angels?
WHILE Jesus is often called the Son of God in the Bible, nobody in the first century ever thought of him as being God the Son. Even the demons, who "believe there is one God," knew from their experience in the spirit realm that Jesus was not God. So, correctly, they addressed Jesus as the separate "Son of God." (James 2:19; Matthew 8:29)
Hence, the phrase "Son of God" refers to Jesus as a separate created being, not as part of a Trinity. As the Son of God, he could not be God himself, for John 1:18 says: "No one has ever seen God."—RS, Catholic edition.
The Bible is clear and consistent about the relationship of God to Jesus. Jehovah God alone is Almighty. He created the prehuman Jesus directly. Thus, Jesus had a beginning and could never be coequal with God in power or eternity.
The second any one mentions "actual Christians" all arguments are misplaced and the fighting starts. There are such a large amount of versions of Christianity Worshipping the phrase of God the will of God Mary the mother mom and youngster (Jesus and mom Mary) mother and baby ( child and Mary Magdalene) Mary Magdalene the Crown of thorns the Spear of destiny the pass The Shroud Jesus the Trinity The Bloodline of Jesus Worship of the Miracles The Brotherhood of the Lamb. And Dozens of others.. That is even before we attain the cutting-edge era where things got fairly bloody and messy
Yes it is true that Jesus is not God , how did I know that? I read the Bible. All Jehovah's Witnesses will say the same thing. I don't believe in trinity at all.
Some Rosicrucians hold that Jesus was not god made flesh, but rather flesh that became god; saying that all humans are capable of becoming a part of god. Not quite the same as not believing Jesus is god, but still an interesting distinction.