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To: AppyPappy; frog_jerk_2004; Protagoras; BibChr
"Even Jesus said He wasn't good. "

Jesus never said He wasn't good. The rich young ruler approached Jesus and addressed Him as, "Good Teacher". Jesus replied, "Why do you call me good, there is none good but God."

What Jesus did was basically to challenge the man to make a decision about who Jesus was.

There are only two ways to take that verse. Either Jesus was claiming to be God. Or Jesus really meant that He wasn't good. But if Jesus wasn't good, then He wasn't a fit sacrifice for our sins. He would be in need of a Savior Himself.

211 posted on 01/26/2005 11:46:28 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

The young man who spoke to Jesus was convinced he was "good". His adherence to the commandments was the definition of "good" in human eyes. Jesus is saying "No one this side of Heaven is good".


225 posted on 01/26/2005 11:50:08 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: DannyTN; AppyPappy

...and, if He was denying His own goodness, He was contradicting what He said as quoted in John 8:46.

(In other words, "Right on.")

Dan


226 posted on 01/26/2005 11:50:13 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: DannyTN

For every verse there are alternate understandings it seems sometimes.


254 posted on 01/26/2005 12:03:30 PM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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