Truth7t7 said:
God the Father states openly Jesus Christ is "God"[/QUOTE\]
This isn't true. But truth isn't what you care about is it?
Truth7t7 said:
Hebrews 1:8KJV
- But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.[/QUOTE\]
First, note the context. In many translations, including the KJV, either in the main text or in the margin,
Hebrews 1:9 reads, “God,
your God, anointed you.” This makes it clear that the one addressed in verse eight is not God, but one who worships God and is anointed by him.
Secondly, it should be noted that
Hebrews 1:8, 9 is a quotation from
Psalm 45:6, 7, which originally was addressed to a human king of Israel. Surely the writer of this psalm did not think that this human king was Almighty God and neither did the writer of Hebrews think that Jesus was Almighty God. Commenting on this, scholar B. F. Westcott said: “It is scarcely possible that אלוהים [
Elohim “God”] in the original can be addressed to the king. . . . Thus on the whole it seems best to adopt in the first clause the rendering:
God is Thy throne (or,
Thy throne is God), that is ‘Thy kingdom is founded upon God.’”
So no, Hebrews 1:8 doesn't prove Jesus to be God
Truth7t7 said:
John 1:1KJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God./[QUOTE\]
At the end of his first letter to Christians the apostle John brings us to the understanding, namely, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that humans begotten of God are children of God with Jesus Christ. An American Translation presents the end of John’s letter as follows: “We know that no child of God commits sin, but that he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him. We know that we are children of God, while the whole world is in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us power to recognize him who is true; and we are in union with him who is true.” How? “Through his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. Dear children, keep away from idols.”(1 John 5:18-21)
So the apostle John kept writing in his Gospel that Jesus is the Son of God. He never denied that.
John proves that the Word who was with God “was made flesh” and became Jesus Christ and that Jesus Christ was “the Son of God.” So it would be proper to say that the Word was the Son of God. For anyone to say that the Word was God, “the only true God,” would be contrary to what the apostle John proves by the rest of his writings. In the last book of the Bible, namely, in Revelation 19:13, John calls him “The Word of God,” saying: “And his name is called The Word of God.” (AV; Dy) Note that his name is not called “God the Word,” but is called “The Word of God,” or God’s Word. Hence John 1:1 means, at most, that the Word was of God, not that the Word was God, because as said before that would be contrary to what the apostle John said in the rest of his writings.