http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3059418/posts?page=584#584
“But, Scripture does not ever say outright, Jesus is God.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3059418/posts?page=535#535
“The point is that Scripture never calls Jesus God.
Scripture gives the name Jesus to the Second Person of the Trinity, who is God, but is never called God.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3059418/posts?page=451#451
“Nowhere in Scripture is Jesus called God. Through many passages we come to understand that He is indeed God, but nowhere does Scripture call Jesus, God.”
Thank you for at least posting what my actual words, yet never in any of those posts do I say that the Bible does not teach that Jesus is God.
The conversation was as to why Scripture calls Mary the mother of Jesus but not the mother of God and I pointed out, quite rightly that Scripture never says, outright, i.e. in plain words JESUS IS GOD!
I quite clearly say that we CAN KNOW from Scripture that JESUS IS GOD, but that those words are not found anywhere in Scripture.
When the pharisees say that Jesus is blaspheming it is because they assumed that Jesus when he said, “before Abraham was, I Am,” was saying that He is the God that they believed in.
We of course, know that that God is God the Father and not God the Son who is Jesus.
In the first post of mine, you omitted what came before. IN the second, also omitted much of the post. And, gee golly whiz, the third says exactly what I said, which does not even begin to suggest that the Bible doesn’t teach that Jesus is God.
Well, do not color me surprised. After all, that’s the same thing you do to Scripture.