Skeptic - Jesus never said He was God
Is Jesus God?
You are trying to claim he was just a man. He was either a lunatic, a liar, or God. The entire case for this when investigated points to >> God.
Is Jesus God, of the One, of the Trinity?
Non Christians tend to pick one verse and ignore the rest of the Bible. They say, “Jesus never said, ‘I am God. Worship me.'" But you are wrong. He did say "I AM." And in Hebrew he was clearly declaring He is God.
Regardless, You do not make a Doctrine out of what Jesus did NOT say. You make it out of what He DID say. Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I AM,” (John 8:58) which was him saying "I am the eternal God". and He was revealed as God by what Scripture reveals overall in the NT, which is why the Jews sought to and had him killed. Because he very clearly told them multiple times, in the way they would clearly understand, he was telling them He is God. And God (overall) has revealed this in Scripture too.
Jesus also never said, “I am the Father.” There is more than one way to claim to be God in the flesh. In fact, Jesus is called God in John 20:28.
Jesus said, "I and the Father are One." And, “Before Abraham was, I AM,” (John 8:58). Compare with Exodus 3:14 where God says, “I AM that I AM.” The Jews wanted to kill Jesus for saying that (John 8:59). He said several things to the Jewish leaders that literally pointed to Him flat out saying he is God. They wanted to kill Him because He Claimed to be GOD (John 10:33).
Scripture everywhere says Jesus was God from the beginning. He is of the Trinity, the eternal God who is One. He is the Word of God who came to earth put on human flesh, called the God Man and Son of God, and this eternal God who always existed...He walked among mankind for the purpose of fulfilling the promise made in the Garden of Eden after the Fall of man into sin.
The old testament tells us God the Father is sending a Savior, the New Testament tells us How He did it thru the Word made Flesh - Jesus the Christ the Messiah.
God calls everyone everywhere to repent of sin and Trust in the work Jesus did on the cross that provided a payment for you to escape the coming wrath of God on sins. Jesus was willingly came to be judged and take your place on the cross to recieve God's eternal wrath against sin* so you do not need to be judged on Judgement Day and be thrown into eternal wrath filled Hell. You can be free of the punishment you deserve by receiving and trusting in Jesus Christ. It's that simple.
God came to save sinners because only a perfect person (God put on the human flesh) could live a perfect life, completely obey all the laws of God, in order to be that perfect acceptable sacrifice to God the Father for the payment of all who will believe. The full Wrath of God was poured out on Hesus for those ones, and God was satisfied when Jesus died a human death, and rose 3 days later proving He was God, and that he paid the debt, and now made salvation available to mankind. Justice was satisfied. We can now receive the Righteousness of Christ on our behalf because He took our place and paid our debt. And if we recieve Jesus as God and the Savior in this way, by trusting He did that for us. That while we were God's enemies he proved His love for us by doing this for us.... we will be forgiven of all our sins, He will convert us to a New creation, cause us to be born again giving us spiritual life, recieve a personal relationship with our God, and the free gift of eternal life with Him.
If you reject Christ God has clearly stated there is only Hell and wrath awaiting for eternity. There is no escape, ever. So God wants everyone to turn to Jesus today.
Research about Jesus as the eternal God
1. About Jesus here
*More proofs he is God - here
And note, Think about who God is. God is a being- he has attributes; his character and nature are known because Scripture reveals that. Jesus showed he had those attributes (which only God posesses) so that is another proof he is God from eternity. Besides that info, here are 160 examples from Scripture proving Jesus is God.
2. The entire Bible is God's special Revelation to mankind; the Old Testament tells how God will send the Messiah [Jesus] to be mans Savior from sin, the New Testament tells us How He did it, [and also tells us everything else we should know. 👍]
Answering a few questions here and there would be insufficient, inappropriate and misleading to bring us to an understanding that would be truthful. One needs to grasp the overall knowledge in a full investigation.
What needs to be examined are the essential "a deep dive" into "what the Bible says about God" and understand the essential differences, what separates us, and Then having established that, the question is, who is the real God, what is the real Holy Scriptures, and What is the truth for Mankind around life, salvation, Jesus, Heaven and Hell, and how to live in this world. That needs to be investigated fully to come to a proper conclusion.
Also likewise, so picking and choosing a couple certain verses from the Bible, to try to conclude there is no God or Jesus isn't God, is actually insufficient and completely untruthful way to try to avoid actually researching Christianity and truthfully concluding an answer...it requires a proper thorough investigation.
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I wish you peace as you research diligently for the truth, as the truth will set you free.
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