This sounds as contrary as saying that God raised Jesus from the dead.....did he raise himself from the dead...if he did then was he ever really dead? Can one part of God be dead on earth whilst the other equal parts of him are alive somewhere else?
Can God pray to himself? Can God be called his own servant?
Did God put himself in Mary's womb? If the holy spirit did where was God? Its totally illogical and contrary to so much that is written in God's word.
Why does Jesus
need to be God? The scriptures give us no need because as the "last Adam" all Jesus needed to be was sinless. ....the equivalent of the first Adam who is also said to be a "son of God". (Luke 3:38) That is what redemption is....a set payment to free a captive from slavery. We are the captives, Jesus is the redeemer and Adam was the one who condemned us to the slavery of sin and death. Jesus paid the set price.....God didn't have it because he is immortal and cannot die.....it seems so easy to understand and yet still we argue here.
Again, where does it say he was God? The "son" "came from the Father" as all sons do.
Peter, James and John had seen his glory in the transfiguration, but none of them assumed that he was God, because he never said he was. It was the Word who became flesh not God.
The Word was "with God" remember?
The collective of the apostles believed that Jesus was their "Lord" but not their God....that designation was only for the Father.
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For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, 6 yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him. (2 Corinthians 8:5-6)
Could there be a plainer statement?
You have to know that that is a terrible translation because the word "son" (
yhios) is not there in verse 18. This is trinitarian bias in translating.....and it is disgraceful IMO.
What does the first part of verse 18 say? "
No one has ever seen God".....so how many people saw Jesus?
In Greek the words used for Jesus are "monogenes theos" which means "only begotten god".....can Jesus be a "a god" and not "the God" according to Greek understanding of that word? Yes he can, because it is not a word used exclusively for Yahweh....it means "any god or goddess, deity or divinity"
Jesus can be divine without being deity. Why is that not apparent?
Satan is called "theos" in 2 Corinthians 4:3-4....is satan Yahweh?