RE: Why Jesus Is Clearly Not The Almighty God To Be Worshipped.
For many years scientists used to argue about whether light was a particle or a wave.
They finally decided that the only theory that would explain all the facts was that light had a dual nature - sometimes acting as a particle and sometimes acting as a wave.
This is a good way to understand the Dual Nature of Jesus. He is fully God and fully man. When you find a verse that proves He was a man, good for you. That's like doing an experiment that proves light is a wave. I will then show you a verse that proves He was God. That's like doing another experiment that proves light is a particle.
Both are fully true. Proving one does not unprove the other.
Scientists now believe that light is both a wave and a particle – a property which they term the wave-particle duality.
Theologists now believe that Jesus was fully God and fully man - a property which they term the hypostatic union.
When Thomas recognized Jesus, he addressed Him as "My Lord AND My God." Jesus did not rebuke him, but instead acknowledged his correct belief.
When Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I AM" the Scriptural experts of His day knew exactly what he was claiming, and said so: “We are not stoning You for any good work, said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.”
You cannot prove that Jesus was not God by pointing to verses that show He was a man any more than you can prove light is not a particle by pointing to an experiment that shows it is a wave.
Proving a faulty claim of MEN with another faulty claim of men, will...
Anyway, I DO AGREE that CHRIST is a GOD and that HE IS A MAN. Nothing to discuss there. Not even waves and particles.
The ONLY POINT I was trying to address here is that CHRIST is NOT, and WILL NEVER be EQUAL to HIS FATHER.
JOHN 14:28
If Christ is merely a God and not part of The God then the 1st Commandment precludes us from worshiping Him. He never rebuked His disciples when they worshipped him on several occasions.
Well... Will you always be equal to your human self? No, because beyond this lifetime and this one body, you are an infinite spiritual being that has experienced many lives and has worn many different bodies. Does that make YOU less YOU?
THAT! is a whole new ballgame :)
..actually i dont even believe that 2-things- EQUAL- to- each- other even EXIST.
Nothing..absolutely nothing is equal absolutely. ;D
Lol well the Bible also says that we are created in his image. I don't think it's a far stretch to hypothesize that our soul is our real self and we experience a human life. Just as God did when he was born as Jesus.