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To: TBP

What was His supposed blasphemy? ... By His own hearing before the Sanhedrin He claimed He was God. That seems to be washed out of relevance by you, by your secularizing assertion that you are as much God as He was since God is in everything. ... Are you beginning to get the picture of why some of us are rather disturbed with your particular form of denial of Christ’s Deity?


123 posted on 05/15/2009 4:20:07 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN
What was His supposed blasphemy?

Allegedly, claiming he was God, although when Pilate asks him directly if he's the Messiah, he replies that "that's what they say."

135 posted on 05/15/2009 9:23:47 PM PDT by TBP
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To: MHGinTN
He claimed He was God.

Dr. Ernest Holmes points out that there is a difference between "I am God" and "God is me." If God is everywehre, everywhen, then it's impossible to be separate from God.

Furthermore, since we know that "in the beginning" there was God and god alone, the only thing that all that we see could be made of is God-stuff because that's all there is.

You know, I'm reminded of a story told by the writer Ram Dass -- probably apocryphal, but to the point: He tells of going to visit his brotehr in the insane asylum. His brother says, "You know what I don't understand? I tell people I'm God and I'm in this asylum. You tell people you're God and you're the great Ram Dass."

And he replied, "he difference, dear brother, is that I tell them they are too."

Now recall Jesus saying (in Matthew), "You are the Light of the World."

138 posted on 05/15/2009 9:35:59 PM PDT by TBP
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