Is Jesus one of us or is he God?

Let’s be clear. Scripture explicitly states that Jesus is the son of God and we are sons of God. Jesus even calls us brothers because we are part of the same family as him. God never calls us brothers. To him we are his children. This doesn’t sound like Jesus is God does it? 

What does scripture say about who Jesus is. Let’s take a look.

Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

Sons of God

Clearly then, we are the same kind of being as Jesus.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.

So both Jesus and us are sons and children of God. We are never brothers to God and God and Jesus are not brothers either. It is written that we will even have the same glorious body as he does.

who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

When we are born from above, we are given a new nature, that is divine nature.

by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature

If not divine nature, then we would still be of the flesh and die in our sins. Instead, we are born again, but we currently remain in a state of flux awaiting our resurrection bodies which will put us at rest and always toward the divine and without sin. Currently we live by divine nature and at other times the flesh nature.

So yes, we know that Jesus was begotten of the Father. So what do you suppose our new birth is?

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come”

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

See. We too are begotten of God.

The difference between redeemed people and Jesus is this. He is the prototype son.

So he is not God as many propose, just as we are not God, even if we have divine nature.

Jesus is the firstborn son among many sons. This is what the Bible teaches.

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    NickHassan
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    Hi davidl,

    I think you are so entrenched in your view that Jesus IS a deity, rather than what scripture says that the fullness of deity was in him

    that you are frightened of divine retaliation if you imagine otherwise.

    But scripture is truth. “Thy Word is truth'”

    There is no fear in love.

    #798271
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi davidl,

    You claim to be reborn from above?

     

    In that case it should be very easy for you to discern between the human vessel Jesus and the Spirit at work and speaking from within Him.

    You should not be easily convinced by the arguments of carnal men who cannot understand things of the Spirit.

     

    Is this so?

    #798272
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi davidl,

    Jn14.23

    “..If a man love me he will KEEP MY WORDS; and my Father will love him and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.

    He that loveth me not, KEEPETH NOT my sayings..

    But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, AND BRING TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE, WHATSOEVER I HAVE SAID UNTO YOU”

     

     

    So your SAFETY is in the scriptures, not the ideas of men.

     

    #798280
    kerwin
    Participant

    DavidL,

    AGAIN – DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY CARNAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE DEITY OF CHRIST..

    CHRIST IS BOTH GOD AND MAN –

    thus in His own Being, He bridges the gap BETWEEN humanity and Divinity..

    Your doctrine is carnal as it does not save those that believe in it from their sins but is instead designed to make them feel secure while still in their sins.

    Jesus Christ came to save us from our sins.

    #798435
    NickHassan
    Participant

    hi KW,

    Be baptised for the forgiveness of your sins.

    #798447
    kerwin
    Participant

    Nick,

    That is what John the Baptist taught. He also taught people “to produce fruit in keeping with their repentance”(Matthew 3:7-8)

    #798448
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    It was what Peter taught at Pentecost.

    deal to sin.

    #798449
    NickHassan
    Participant

    hi KW,

    Rom 6

    For he who has died is free from sin….

    Therefore do not let sin rule in your mortal bodies that you should obey it’s lusts….

    For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

     

    Escape the law and come into the kingdom of grace where freedom lies.

    #798450
    kerwin
    Participant

    Nick,

    Incorrect as John the Baptist taught the Law and the Prophets and Peter taught how to enter the kingdom of heaven.

    Peter added the words “and you will receive the promise of the Holy Spirit” and also preached to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

    #798451
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    John taught preparation for the kingdom of God by repentance

    Those who obeyed could be planted with the new seed

     

    Lk 7 29-30

     

    #798456
    kerwin
    Participant

    Nick,

    Jesus teaches us that “The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.” (Luke 16:16)

    So it seems John the Baptist did not teach the Law and the Prophets but instead taught people to press into the kingdom of heaven even as he was preparing them for the new covenant.

    Peter preached the new covenant.

    Note: The reason I say seems is that Jesus clearly implied that John did not enter the kingdom of heaven. (Luke 7:28)
    Note: I have difficulties knowing if the word until means the event that is transitional is included in the first division or in the second.

    #798461
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    Yes John did not enter the kingdom through the door.

    He said in mt 3

    “I have need to be baptised by you, and do you come to me?’

    #799362
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    Because the Son is One with the Father in His Deity (with God as God) – we as branches can partake of that divine nature..

    this doesn’t make us God – it makes us Christ-like

    we become sons through THE Son – receiving THE DIVINE NATURE OF THE SON.

    For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him..”

    DavidL, you like many have confused nature and identity.

    Eve was adam, but she was not Adam.

    Judas was devil, but he was not the Devil.

    Jesus existed in the form of God, emptied himself, came in the flesh, died, rose again, and is now back with the Father in the glory he had with him before the cosmos.

    If you can understand the difference between identity and nature, then you would not call Jesus the one true God.

    You already understand it with Adam and Eve and Judas and Satan. One more step.

    #799370
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi t8,

    Scripture does not say Jesus existed in the form of God.

    It says CHRIST Jesus.

    The WORD.

    #799448
    DavidL
    Participant

    t8

    You say I have confused nature with identity

    and by saying this you suggest that Jesus has the nature of God

    but cannot be identified as God..

    yet Scripture simply transcends your theory

    John says – He was with God…and He WAS God.

    Jesus says – “I and the Father are One.”

    Thomas said – “My Lord and my God.”

     

    If Jesus is not God (as you falsely claim) – then you have another god next to the One true God…!!

    #799449
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi davidl,

    Indeed all who met and heard Jesus Christ met and heard the Father in him.

    Only if they were of the Spirit of course.

    #799454
    kerwin
    Participant

    DavidL and others;

    Scripture teaches us that Jesus Christ being in the form of God did not see being equal to God as plunder but instead humbled himself and took on the form of a servant, a servant God prophesied about by saying My Servant …” Though he posses the form of the one true God he clearly is not the one true God as he is instead the Servant of the one true God.

    #799455
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi davidl,

    You say Jesus is God.

     

    Thus you deny his sonship and the fatherhood of God.

    Scripture mentions those who do this.

    #799457
    kerwin
    Participant

    DavidL,

    Jesus says – “I and the Father are One.”

    Why do you continue to misuse these words though you are well aware speaks of the unity of the Spirit to which God, Jesus Christ, and those that believe in them belong?

    You must overcome the obstacles the flesh throws in your way.

    #799459
    kerwin
    Participant

    Nick,

    Hi KW,

    Yes John did not enter the kingdom through the door.

    He said in mt 3

    “I have need to be baptised by you, and do you come to me?’

    John said those words to Jesus before Jesus himself was immersed and the Spirit landed on the latter in the form a dove.

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