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Date Posted: 20:45:42 12/09/02 Mon
In reply to:
Debbie
's message, "Let's Talk, And Your Opinion Is?" on 13:39:06 11/01/02 Fri
I HAVE A QUESTION??? WHO WAS/IS JESUS?
GOD... PROPHET, OR NO ONE.
This is a serious topic that I would like to open... a topic that has been on my mind for years..., because 1/2 of the world believe in Jesus, but each have a different view on what he was. What he did etc.
I firmly believe that Jesus is not the Son of God, I say this not out of arrogance but by pure reasoning and logic. Two main religions believe in Jesus ... Muslims and Christians..
So I have based my evedince by using the Bible and the Quran... Bible= BLUE, Quran= GREEN
Matthew 19:17, Jesus responded to one who addressed him as O good master, saying: Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God If he rejected being called ;good;, and stated that only God is truly good, he clearly implies that he is not God.
;Say: Indeed, I am only a man like you to whom it has been revealed that your God is only one God.
In John 14:28, Jesus was saying: The Father is greater than I By stating that the Fatheris greater than himself, Jesus distinguishes himself from God. Also in John 20:17, Jesus told Mary Magdalene to tell his followers: I ascend unto my Father and your Father; and to my God and your God Jesus reference to God as ;my Father and your Father; further emphasizes the distinction between himself and God. Furthermore, by referring to God as ;his God;, he left no room for anyone to intelligently claim that he was God.
And [remember] when Jesus, son of Mary, said: O Children of Israel, I am the messenger of Allaah sent to you, confirming the Torah [which came] before me.
In Matthew 21:11, the people of his time are recorded as referring to Jesus as a prophet: ;And the crowds said, This is the prophet Jesus of Nazareth of Galilee; In Mark, 6:4, it is stated that Jesus referred to himself as a prophet: And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. In the following verses, Jesus is referred to as having been sent as a messenger is sent. In Matthew 10:40, Jesus was purported to have said: He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. In John 17:3, Jesus is also quoted as saying: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent
;When the angels said: O Mary, indeed Allaah gives you glad tidings of a Word from Him, whose name will be the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary. He will be honored in this world and the next and will be of those close to Allaah.Quraan, (3):45
The Messiah, Son of Mary, was no more than a messenger and many messengers passed away before him. His mother was exceedingly truthful, and they both ate food. See how I have made the signs clear for them, yet see how they are deluded
I was also amazed to learn that many prophets were called the "Sons of God"
For example, when the author of the Gospel according to Luke listed Jesus ancestors back to Adam, he wrote: The son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
In 2nd Samuel 8:13-14, God calls Prophet Solomon His son, “ He [Solomon] shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son."
God promised to make Prophet David His son in Psalms 89:26-27: 26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation, 27Also I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.
Angels are referred to as sons of Godin The Book of Job 1:6, Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them;
Some claim that what is unique in the case of Jesus, is that he is the only begotten[9] Son of God, while the others are merely sons of GodHowever, God is recorded as saying to Prophet David, in Psalms 2:7, I will tell the decree of the Lord: He said to me, You are my son, today I have begotten you; ;
Since the Hebrews believed that God is One, and had neither wife nor children in any literal sense, it is obvious that the expression son of Godmerely meant to them Servant of God;; one who, because of his faithful service, was close and dear to God, as a son is to a father. Christians who came from a Greek or Roman background, later misused this term. In their heritage, son of Godsignified an incarnation of a god or someone born of a physical union between male and female gods. When the Church cast aside its Hebrew foundations, it adopted the pagan concept of son of Godwhich was entirely different from the Hebrew usage
The use of the term son of Godshould only be understood from the Semitic symbolic sense of a servant of God, and not in the pagan sense of a literal offspring of God. In the four Gospels, Jesus is recorded as saying: Blessed are the peace-makers; they will be called sons of God
When Allaah will say: O Jesus, son of Mary, did you tell people: Worship me and my mother as two gods instead of Allaah?.[Jesus will say]: I only told them what You commanded me to say: Worship Allaah, my Lord and your Lord.
Complied with the Help of this Article The true message of jesus, By Bilal Phillips I advise you to read it.
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