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John 10:33 - the Jews accuse Jesus that he made himself God. Is this a theological statement? Were they right? Why don't we ask Jesus about it, for he replies to them. Not surprisingly you stopped quoting the passage before Jesus' reply.
John 10:
34 Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ —and the scripture cannot be annulled— 36 can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, ‘I am the son of God’?
Ops! The term "god" can refer to human superiors, as it is applied to Moses, the judges of Israel and even to Jewish kings. The term simply means "power". So Jesus is correcting them and says that not only that he did not even claim to be "god" (human superior), he simply claimed to be the "son of God" (a holy man of God).
For the rest of your quotes you need to read about the concept of the "shaliach", or "intermediary". Do your own homework, I will not answer every single bible verse.
A Typical Replacement Theologist. For those who do not know what that is, it is where Christians think the Church which is full of Gentiles has taken over from Israel which is God's Nation. We now have all the promises. Some even go as far as to think that no Jew today will ever get saved that their ability to become Christians is zero because they rejected Jesus and sent Him off to be crucified. Well how do you explain the Apostles and all the Jews that came to Christ and formed the Early Church and all the Messianic Jews of today?
If you think God has finished with the Jews than you are Ignorant of what is written about their situation and their future. Paul clarifies where the people of Israel stand before God today. Remember the Gospel is for the Jews and NOT JUST for Gentiles.
For those who are Saved Don't be conceited Israel is the Tree and you are the ingrafted branches. It is Israel that sustains us as Christians and not all the natural branches have been removed and don't you think God is not restoring Israel back to Himself. God is in the process of restoring Israel the Nation to Himself. Until the full number of the Gentiles comes into salvation they are blinded on purpose for rejecting God as a Nation. There are still individual Jews who come to salvation through Christ Jesus today. However Israel is God's nation and the promises God made to Israel as a Nation the following scriptures tells us are IRREVOCABLE.
GAL 2:6 As for those who seemed to be important--whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by external appearance--those men added nothing to my message. 7 On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been to the Jews. 8 For God, who was at work in the ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles. 9 James, Peter and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews.
After Christ's death both Jews and Gentiles were evangelised. The Gospel is for all who would receive Christ. The Jews were not denied salvation and they still are coming to Christ today.
RO 11:17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
RO 11:22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
RO 11:25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
"The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
RO 11:27 And this is my covenant with them
when I take away their sins."
RO 11:28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable.
If you actuall knew and understood the Old Testament you would see the Jews or Hebrews living with Jesus in Jerusalem and living there in peace (no more will the nations surrounding the Jews attack her) and safety, worshiping the Lord.
First God will punish them for their rejection of the Messiah which we are seeing today. However as Paul says in Romans 9, 10 & 11 there is a remnant of Israel that he will restored.
RO 11:1 I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don't you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah--how he appealed to God against Israel: 3 "Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me" ? 4 And what was God's answer to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace
The Pharisees and the Sanhedrein and the followers of these men could not see that Jesus was not just claiming to be God but that He was God. Because Jesus fulfilled the prophecies spoken of the Messiah by the scriptures and that He was able to perform the acts of God Himself upon this Earth.
What did Jesus say to those who wanted a sign for Him to prove he was who he said he was?
MT 16:1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.
MT 16:2 He replied, "When evening comes, you say, `It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,' 3 and in the morning, `Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. 4 A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah." Jesus then left them and went away.
LK 11:29 As the crowds increased, Jesus said, "This is a wicked generation. It asks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah. 30 For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation. 31 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now one greater than Solomon is here. 32 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.
These people has the scriptures and the ability to see that Jesus was sent from God and that Jesus was God Himself. Yet they did not want to see it.
No one could convince these men back then and I certainly cannot convince any one today. If Jesus Christ Himself came down from Heaven and demonstrated his Divinity for you it would probably not move you to believe. You have the scriptures and you can pray and ask for the answer. If you really want to know the answer you will receive it.
JN 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.
JN 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
JN 1:10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God-- 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
JN 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
JN 1:15 John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, `He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' " 16 From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.
It is clear even in the days of Jesus on this Earth many did not believe Him then and no surprise you do not believe him today.
However for those of us who receive Him and believe in His Name we can become the children of God. You have to receive Christ and Believe in His Name.
PS 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD,
for his name alone is exalted;
his splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
PHP 2:9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
PHP 2:10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
PHP 2:11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
God's Name alone is exalted and we exalt the Name of Jesus because He is God!