Well, that's what you believe and I don't. Why do you believe John?
In order to understand anything in the Bible, His words must be known and understood before anything else is attempted, because He is God and the others can not overrule Him
This is Bible babble. He is God to you. That doesn't mean he is. Christians believe Jesus is God, so there's no contradiction
Then the raising of the Temple in three days does not refer to his Resurrection because overwhelming NT evidence shows that the the most prominent apostles and Luke agree that he was raised by God and didn't raise himself.
"Well, that's what you believe and I don't. Why do you believe John?
It doesn't say John answered them. It says in John 2:19, "Jesus answered them,..."
Re: "In order to understand anything in the Bible, His words must be known and understood before anything else is attempted, because He is God and the others can not overrule Him."
"This is Bible babble. He is God to you. That doesn't mean he is.
In order to understand any story, especially such biographical type stories grasshopper, the main character must be known and understood. If you don't hold the main charcter's own words as the fundamental reference, you'll be forever lost in the confusion of all those different voices and visions. Autobiographies hold more weight, because they are from the primary source.
Re: " Christians believe Jesus is God, so there's no contradiction." " Then the raising of the Temple in three days does not refer to his Resurrection because overwhelming NT evidence shows that the the most prominent apostles and Luke agree that he was raised by God and didn't raise himself.
Christians believe Jesus is God grasshopper. Even Paul said, "For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form," in Col 2:9. So anywhere you see the word God written in the Bible, it can be replaced with the word Jesus, or visa versa, because He and the father are One.
"But the state of being God is not a person."
In order to be in a state of being God, one must be a person.