St. Paul the Blasphemer?

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Isaiah prophesied that everyone will bow to the LORD, that is, YHWH.

Isaiah 45:21-25 KJV
21) Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
22) Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23) I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24) Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25) In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Paul applied this prophecy to Jesus:

Romans 14:10-12 KJV
10) But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11) For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
12) So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Either Jesus is YHWH or Paul was a blasphemer.

We see the very same thing here:

Philippians 2:9-11 KJV
9) Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10) That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11) And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The thing is . . . I don't believe blasphemy was written into the Bible. I do believe that YHWH took on flesh and lived among us, then offered His body on the cross to redeem us.

There is no mistaking that this is taught to us in Scripture.

Acts 20:28 KJV
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Not to mention, the Holy Spirit is here ascribed volition and activity. Yes, the Holy Spirit is likewise a Person Himself.

Much love!

 

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In my view it is impossible to deny the divinity if Immanuel and at the same time claim to believe Scripture is the word of God.

If Immanuel,Jesus,was not The Word made Flesh,God,then he was a man divinely guided.

If he was a divinely guided man that would mean he was born with a fallen nature predisposed to sin.
Which would mean he would need to be Saved before he could be a Savior of others.

No doubt there are those who think this is the case. And that is why he fought out John for Baptism before beginning his ministry at the age of thirty.

God says in the OT,He is the only God. And besides Him there is no Savior.

And as a note concerning Paul, he was a Pharisee. If anyone knew the Hebrew teachings of God,it was a Pharisee.

It's odd that people believe Jesus was Savior. And then show they don't believe He was who He himself said He was.


I and The Father are one.
When you have seen me you have seen The Father

And his name shall be called,Immanuel. Meaning,God with us.

Naysayers will claim we must look to the ancient translation of the original Greek text.
We don't have the autographs ,original Greek texts,today.

What we have are translations and copies of those originals.

And here's the thing about all that. If we're told we can't trust this version or that to mean what it says then we're lost.

Because the versions exist to lead us to understand God's call to Salvation. If we can't trust what is written how do we know to trust when The God written about calls us to Himself?

 

[Randy Kluth]

Isaiah prophesied that everyone will bow to the LORD, that is, YHWH.

Isaiah 45:21-25 KJV
21) Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
22) Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23) I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24) Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25) In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Paul applied this prophecy to Jesus:

Romans 14:10-12 KJV
10) But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11) For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
12) So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Either Jesus is YHWH or Paul was a blasphemer.

We see the very same thing here:

Philippians 2:9-11 KJV
9) Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10) That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11) And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The thing is . . . I don't believe blasphemy was written into the Bible. I do believe that YHWH took on flesh and lived among us, then offered His body on the cross to redeem us.

There is no mistaking that this is taught to us in Scripture.

Acts 20:28 KJV
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Not to mention, the Holy Spirit is here ascribed volition and activity. Yes, the Holy Spirit is likewise a Person Himself.

Much love!

Preach it brother! :) If Jesus wasn't Divine, he couldn't have forgiven our sins on behalf of God. His forgiveness would've only been good for the Romans and Jews of his time who offended and crucified him.