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Based on Habakkuk 1:12, "O my God, my Holy One, you do not .........?

".....you do not die."

Jesus died.

How can Jesus be God?

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  • Elijah
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    In harmony with the scripture that you provided, it certainly would seem unreasonable to believe that the God who is labeled "the King of eternity" (1 Tim. 1:17) and existing "even from everlasting to everlasting" (Ps. 90:2, AS) to have temporarily died 2,000 years ago. But not unreasonable to believe that His son did.

    If Jesus were God, and God is immortal, Jesus could not have died. Further, if Jesus was God, his sacrifice would not have been equal to what Adam had lost. Only the death of another perfect man could pay the wages of sin. 1 Timothy 2:6 & Romans 5:16, 17 outline that Jesus was such a man. Jesus was "a corresponding ransom" for the saving of all redeemable mankind descended from Adam. This is in accordance to God's standard of justice as outlined by God's Law to ancient Israel which required "soul for soul [or, life for life]." (Exodus 21:23) So the death covering mankind's transgressions would have to equal the death of another perfect man which could pay the wages of sin.

  • 1 decade ago

    Jesus was a man sent by God to be His son.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because Jesus is not God, he is Gods son. He never claimed to be equal to his father and he has always been in subjection to him. False religion has turned him into Almighty God. But there is only one Almighty God, Jehovah.

  • 1 decade ago

    Who said jesus is god. Jesus is a massiah that god sent. God already planned for jesus to die before jesus was even born.

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  • We tend to lose something in translation. The Hebrew has about 10 terms (some singular, some plural) that get translated 'God' in our present English.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He only died physically. JW, Jesus claimed to be God! Read the older copies of The WatchTower from 1961 they encourage the worship of Jesus. However, by 1971 the WTS changed their stance.

    If Jesus claimed to be God or accepted worship (both would be blasphemy) how was He sinless?

  • 1 decade ago

    Excellent question...it does speak for itself.

    " It is impossible for God to lie"- Heb 6:18

  • 1 decade ago

    Because, Jesus overcame hell, death and the grave by his own power. No one else has ever come back to life under their own power.

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