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To: Ancesthntr

I wonder why you do do not believe that Jesus was both divine and human?

How can Jesus who died on the cross was buried in a tomb and rose from the Dead on Easter Sunday be explained and then ascended into Heaven by HIS own power and witnessed by many observers?

Jesus claimed to be God as Jesus said “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12) and “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).

Jesus acted as God as He forgave sins, which is something that only God has the authority to do.

God’s love is so unending that he desires to share it with each of us, as Jesus tells us “If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him” (John 14:23)

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1) “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; beheld his glory as of the only-begotten Son from the Father.” (John 1:14)

Many of prophecies of the Old Testament were fulfilled by Christ in the New Testament. Jesus came as our Savior to restore us from our sins so that we could enter eternal life with God.

May you fully understand God’s Truth and accept Jesus as God.


70 posted on 02/24/2020 12:17:56 PM PST by ADSUM
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To: ADSUM

“I wonder why you do do not believe that Jesus was both divine and human?”


G-d is not human. For Him to be down on our level is to be less than divine. That is absolutely NOT to say that He can’t (and doesn’t) use humans to accomplish His goals, or that He cannot directly communicate with us humans...but He, Himself, is not human. To say that is nothing less than blasphemy.

Numbers 23:19 - “God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: when He hath said, will He not do it? or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good?”

That which is Eternal, by definition, cannot be preceded by anything. Hence, the Eternal Himself cannot be preceded by any framework of existence.

Thus, G-d does not - CAN not - exist inside some framework of existence, like our bodies exist in space-time. Rather, He is the existence and also the framework of existence of everything...both things simultaneously. Hence there cannot be anything or anywhere devoid of Him. A body implies some kind of “place” where He is and thus necessarily another place where He is not - and this is impossible.

As for your claims that the “Old Testament” (i.e. the Jewish Bible) was fulfilled by Jesus, that contention relies upon mistranslations of hebrew words and phrases, taking things out of context, or simply making things up.

As for all of those quotes from the Christian bible, I will give you the Jewish perspective on them from Deuteronomy 4:2, as follows:

“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”

Either the word of G-d in the 5 Books of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms is true and correct (which I believe), or it is not. If it is, then you cannot have the Christian bible, and if it is not, then you cannot claim anything valid from relying upon it.

If you sincerely wish to understand why Jews do not view Jesus as “a” messiah, let alone “the” messiah, much less divine, take a look at these articles: https://jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/articles/the-jewish-concept-of-messiah-and-the-jewish-response-to-christian-claims/

http://www.answering-christianity.com/sami_zaatri/10_reasons_jesus_not_god.htm


160 posted on 02/25/2020 2:58:48 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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