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All things have been delivered to me by my Father?
In the book of Matthew 11:27 it reads, All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one fully knows the Son but the Father, neither does anyone fully know the Father but the Son and anyone to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.
(John 3:35) The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
(John 17:2) according as you have given him authority over all flesh, that, as regards the whole [number] whom you have given him, he may give them everlasting life.
(1 Corinthians 15:27) For [God] “subjected all things under his feet.” But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’ it is evident that it is with the exception of the one who subjected all things to him.
So how can Jesus be God?!
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- ?Lv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
This scripture from 1 Cor shows just how wrong the teaching that Jesus is God really is:
"Next, the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power. For he must rule as king until [God] has put all enemies under his feet.As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing.For [God] “subjected all things under his feet.” But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’ it is evident that it is with the exception of the one who subjected all things to him.But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone."
I show this all the time to trinitarians etc.....in my ministry and none of them has a good answer to it, they just tend to gloss it over!
Also:
Jesus in Praying to HIS FATHER said: "This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. John 17: 3. So listen to what the son says when he calls his father THE ONLY TRUE GOD!
Here are a few more things to think about, , "
The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him." (John 13:16) Jesus said on numerous occasions that, "the Father… hath sent me." (John 5:37,6:37)
Jesus prays to God. (John 17:1-3)
Jesus has faith in God. (Hebrews 2:17,18, Hebrews 3:2)
Jesus is a servant of God. (Acts 3:13)
Jesus does not know things God knows. (Mark 13:32, Revelation 1:1)
Jesus worships God. (John 4:22)
Jesus has one who is God to him. (Revelation 3:12)
Jesus is in subjection to God. (1 Corinthians 15:28)
Jesus' head is God. (1 Corinthians 11:1)
Jesus has reverent submission, fear, of God. (Hebrews 5:7)
Jesus is given lordship by God. (Acts 2:36)
Jesus is exalted by God.(Acts 5:31)
Jesus is made high priest by God. (Hebrews 5:10)
Jesus is given authority by God. (Philippians 2:9)
Jesus is given kingship by God. (Luke 1:32,33)
Jesus is given judgment by God. (Acts 10:42)
"God raised [Jesus] from the dead". (Acts 2:24, Romans 10:9, 1 Corinthians 15:15)
Jesus is at the right hand of God. (Mark 16:19, Luke 22:69, Acts 2:33, Romans 8:34)
Jesus is the one human mediator between the one God and man. (1 Timothy 2:5)
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:12)
God put everything, except Himself, under Jesus. (1 Corinthians 15:24-28)
Jesus did not think being "equal with God" was graspable. (Philippians 2:6)
"Around the ninth hour, Jesus shouted in a loud voice, saying "Eli Eli lama sabachthani?" which is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"" (Matthew 27:46)
- ?Lv 69 years ago
Thank you for your question.
@Brenda and joseph 86...A wrongly Translated John 1 cannot replace all of the Correctly translated scriptures that Terry gave You. There are other Bibles beside the New World Translation that make it clear that it says "was A god" there. The Greek doesn't insert the defenite article in ANY Bible verse, but it it is added throuhout the Bible to make sense. It was left out there by trinitarians trying to prove a lie. The original Coptic scrolls in Koine Greek make this clear. And now Please read this.......and accept the Truth.......
2 Corinthians 1:3 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort."
Yes, it's in your Bible...and Yes, Blessed be JEHOVAH.
Thank you Darren and keep up the good work.
Source(s): Always the Truth from God's Word the Bible. - momLv 79 years ago
Jesus never said he was God. he prayed to his Father Jehovah and said that he can not do anything without the Father in heaven. when Jesus was baptized Jehovah came down like a dove and said this is my Son, the Beloved. also John chapter 17 verses 3-5 says This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of the only True God, and of the one who you sent forth Jesus Christ. I have glorified you on the earth, having finished the work you have given me to do. So now you, Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was. Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God. even the disciples knew that Jesus was the Son of Jehovah. even the devil knows that Jesus is not God
- Bamboo tigerLv 59 years ago
At Isaiah 43:10 Jehovah says: “Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.” Does this mean that, because Jesus Christ is prophetically called “Mighty God” at Isaiah 9:6, Jesus must be Jehovah? No, for none of the idolatrous Gentile nations formed a god before Jehovah, because no one existed before Jehovah. Nor would they at a future time form any real, live god that was able to prophesy. (Isa. 46:9, 10) But that does not mean that Jehovah never caused to exist anyone who is properly referred to as a god.
Was Moses God?
(Exodus 4:16) 16 And he must speak for you to the people; and it must occur that he will serve as a mouth to you, and you will serve as God to him.
(Exodus 7:1) 7 Consequently Jehovah said to Moses: “See, I have made you God to Phar′aoh, and Aaron your own brother will become your prophet.
(Ps. 82:1, 6; John 1:1, NW) At Isaiah 10:21 Jehovah is referred to as “mighty God,” just as Jesus is in Isaiah 9:6; but only Jehovah is ever called “God Almighty.”—Gen. 17:1.
If a certain title or descriptive phrase is found in more than one location in the Scriptures, it should never hastily be concluded that it must always refer to the same person. Such reasoning would lead to the conclusion that Nebuchadnezzar was Jesus Christ, because both were called “king of kings” (Dan. 2:37; Rev. 17:14); and that Jesus’ disciples were actually Jesus Christ, because both were called “the light of the world.” (Matt. 5:14; John 8:12) We should always consider the context and any other instances in the Bible where the same expression occurs.
We can say that Jesus was of divine origin, but that does not make him God as part of a Trinity.
(Colossians 2:9) 9 because it is in him that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells bodily.
*** Rbi8 Colossians 2:9 ***
“Divine quality.” Lit., “godship.” Gr., the•o′te•tos; Lat., di•vi•ni•ta′tis.
KJ reads: “In him [Christ] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead [Greek, the•o′te•tos] bodily.” (A similar thought is conveyed by the renderings in NE, RS, JB, NAB, Dy.) However, NW reads: “It is in him that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells bodily.” (AT, We, and CKW read “God’s nature,” instead of “Godhead.” Compare 2 Peter 1:4.)
Admittedly, not everyone offers the same interpretation of Colossians 2:9. But what is in agreement with the rest of the inspired letter to the Colossians? Did Christ have in himself something that is his because he is God, part of a Trinity? Or is “the fullness” that dwells in him something that became his because of the decision of someone else? Colossians 1:19 (KJ, Dy) says that all fullness dwelt in Christ because it “pleased the Father” for this to be the case. NE says it was “by God’s own choice.”
Consider the immediate context of Colossians 2:9: In verse 8, readers are warned against being misled by those who advocate philosophy and human traditions. They are also told that in Christ “are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” and are urged to “live in him” and to be “rooted and built up in him and established in the faith.” (Verses 3, 6, 7) It is in him, and not in the originators or the teachers of human philosophy, that a certain precious “fulness” dwells. Was the apostle Paul there saying that the “fulness” that was in Christ made Christ God himself? Not according to Colossians 3:1, where Christ is said to be “seated at the right hand of God.”—See KJ, Dy, TEV, NAB.
According to Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon, the•o′tes (the nominative form, from which the•o′te•tos is derived) means “divinity, divine nature.” (Oxford, 1968, p. 792) Being truly “divinity,” or of “divine nature,” does not make Jesus as the Son of God coequal and coeternal with the Father, any more than the fact that all humans share “humanity” or “human nature” makes them coequal or all the same age.
John 1:1 according to the New World Translation:
(John 1:1) 1 In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.
This agrees with the immediant context:
(John 1:2) 2 This one was in [the] beginning with God.
(John 1:18) 18 No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten god who is in the bosom [position] with the Father is the one that has explained him.
No man has seen God, but they have seen God's son, Jesus.
(1 John 1:1, 2) 1 That which was from [the] beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have viewed attentively and our hands felt, concerning the word of life, 2 (yes, the life was made manifest, and we have seen and are bearing witness and reporting to YOU the everlasting life which was with the Father and was made manifest to us,)
(1 John 4:12) 12 At no time has anyone beheld God. . . .
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- joseph8638Lv 69 years ago
I see nothing here that suggests that Jesus is not God.
Source(s): Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God (Son with the Father), and the Word (Christ) was God. Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. - Anonymous9 years ago
These things were delivered to jesus as the Representative of mankind - the Son of Man.
He had all these things in eternity; yet He willingly laid them aside to enter into mankind's plight, and the bondage of the Race to Satan, to deliver them from the power of Satan as a Man.
" Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father."
Philippians 2:6-11
" Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted."
Hebrews 2:14-18
- ?Lv 69 years ago
One either believes all of the Bible the Word of God or they do not believe it at all. One cannot take a couple of scriptures and say this is how it is. All that you posted is correct but it is not all there. We all know that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God for He said He was, but He also said in a round about way that He was God. What do you think the biggest reason was why they wanted to kill Him?
----Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us." Jesus said to him, "have I been with you so long and YET you have NOT Known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me HAS Seen the Father; so how can you SAY, Show us the Father?" John 14:9-10. How much planner can it be?
Jesus is never recorded in the Bible as saying the precise words, “I am God.” That does not mean, however, that He did not proclaim that He is God. Take for example Jesus’ words in John 10:30, “I and the Father are one.” We need only to look at the Jews’ reaction to His statement to know He was claiming to be God. They tried to stone Him for this very reason. “… you, a mere man, claim to be God” (John 10:33). The Jews understood exactly what Jesus was claiming—deity. Notice that Jesus does not deny His claim to be God. When Jesus declared, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), He was saying that He and the Father are of one nature and essence. John 8:58 is another example. Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was born, I am!” The response of the Jews who heard this statement was to take up stones to kill Him for blasphemy, as the Mosaic Law commanded them to do (Leviticus 24:15).
John reiterates the concept of Jesus’ deity: “the Word was God” and “the Word became flesh” (John 1:1, 14). These verses clearly indicate that Jesus is God in the flesh. Acts 20:28 tells us, “Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.” Who bought the church—the church of God—with His own blood? Jesus Christ. Acts 20:28 declares that God purchased His church with His own blood. Therefore, Jesus is God!
Thomas the disciple declared concerning Jesus, “My Lord and my God” (John 20:28). Jesus does not correct him. Titus 2:13 encourages us to wait for the coming of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ (see also 2 Peter 1:1). In Hebrews 1:8, the Father declares of Jesus, “But about the Son He says, ’Your throne, O God, will last forever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom.’” The Father refers to Jesus as “O God” indicating that Jesus is indeed God.
In Revelation, an angel instructed the apostle John to only worship God (Revelation 19:10). Several times in Scripture Jesus receives worship (Matthew 2:11, 14:33, 28:9, 17; Luke 24:52; John 9:38). He never rebukes people for worshiping Him. If Jesus were not God, He would have told people to not worship Him, just as the angel in Revelation did. There are many other verses and passages of Scripture that argue for Jesus’ deity.
The most important reason that Jesus has to be God is that if He is not God, His death would not have been sufficient to pay the penalty for the sins of the world (1 John 2:2). A created being, which Jesus would be if He were not God, could not pay the infinite penalty required for sin against an infinite God. Only God could pay such an infinite penalty. Only God could take on the sins of the world (2 Corinthians 5:21), die, and be resurrected, proving His victory over sin and death.
- BrendaLv 59 years ago
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God." John 1:1
"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." John 1:14
"There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost and these three are ONE." 1 John 5:7
"I and My Father are One." John 10:30
Plus there are numerous other verses to substantiate this. God Bless!
Source(s): King James Bible - FreeThinkerLv 59 years ago
Jesus is god so long as their pastor/priest/other parts of the bible said so.