If Jesus is divine, does that make him God?

God’s nature is divine his essence is spirit

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

Divine nature pertaining to Jesus Christ and the children of God

But scripture says that we can share in God’s nature so all the more Jesus Christ who after all has a body now, that we will eventually have. It is written that we will be like him. If Jesus Christ is God because he has divine nature, then why aren’t we God by reason of participating in the same divine nature?

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,

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.

Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Connecting the dots, most will agree that we are not God and never will we be God. So divine nature doesn’t qualify you as being God himself.

Was Jesus God or a man?

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Jesus existing in the form of God doesn’t make him God, rather that his nature is from God. A good explanation of a son of God. We also read that Jesus emptied himself, but of what did he empty himself? Many think it was his foreknowledge and divine nature because he took on flesh or human nature and became a man being born like us. He started life as a baby, grew to a child, then an adult. We do know right now that Jesus is at the right-hand of God in the glory he had with him even before creation itself. So it seems he was with God, came to Earth in an empty state, and is back with God in the glory he had with him before the universe existed.

And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

Conclusion

Divine nature doesn’t make you God just as having a spirit doesn’t make you God. Yes God is divine, and He is spirit. But angels are spirits and they are not God and we can share in divine nature and we are not God. What we do know is this:

Jesus Christ existed with God before the world began as the Word. While he shared in divine nature with God, he emptied himself and became a man, even a baby who had to learn how to walk and talk like the rest of us. Providing the perfect sacrifice for our sins through his death, he is now with God at his righthand side in the glory he had with him before the world began. Now we who are in the flesh can be born of the Spirit and participate in this divine nature because Christ died for us.

We need to understand that there is a difference between being God who has divine nature and being a son who shares or inherits divine nature. Receiving the divine nature of God is a good description of being a son and chief among the sons of God is the Son of God himself. He reflects the fullness of God’s nature and glory in visible form from the invisible God.

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.


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  • #868497
    Proclaimer
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    I explained clearly to you. It would be yes and yes. But the first is a person and the latter an attribute. I thought my example of Jesus being the truth who speaks the truth made this crystal clear. But I guess your mind couldn’t see that?

    #869483
    DavidL
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    #869495
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    People who support the Trinity doctrine cannot post one scripture that supports their view. Instead, they look at any occurance that has a pattern of 3 and squeeze something out of that. You could do exactly the same thing for the number 2 or 4 for example.

    There are two lights in the sky for example. This is symbolic of the Binity right? Wrong!

    #869496
    sonofGod
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    Likewise, there are other so called “trinities” in scripture that Trinitarians ignore.

    1.  Peter, James and John.

    2.  Body, soul and spirit I Thessalonians 5:23

    And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    3.  Joseph and Mary and Jesus

    4.  Job 1:8-9  three beings are mentioned in one verse, thus a trinity (according to some trinitarians, they point out Father and son and spirit in single verses and declare proof of a threesome)

    And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

    Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

     

    #869497
    Proclaimer
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    There is that too SonofGod. These are not taken as some kind of trinity even though three things are mentioned.

    #944216
    Nick
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    ”Before Abraham I am” was spoken by the Son in whom God dwelled.

    we know that God spoke through the Son as Heb 1 told us.

    why should it confuse folks?

    God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.

     

    #944238
    Nick
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    The second century “fathers” were already corrupted by Greek philosophy through Origen et al and their words are not inspired by the Holy Spirit as those of the apostles are so we should pay no attention to them.

    #944378
    Proclaimer
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    ”Before Abraham I am” was spoken by the Son in whom God dwelled.

    we know that God spoke through the Son as Heb 1 told us.

    why should it confuse folks?

    God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.

    When Jesus is referring to God he says so.

    My Father… Only God is good… My father is greater than I…

    When Jesus says: “Before Abraham I am”, he is talking about himself.

    #944380
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    The second century “fathers” were already corrupted by Greek philosophy through Origen et al and their words are not inspired by the Holy Spirit as those of the apostles are so we should pay no attention to them.

    But it could also be true that you have been corrupted by man’s wisdom or Greek philosophy. After all, Greeks divided the world into uncreated cause of everything or created. So Jesus Christ is either God or a mere man and many say he is God and you say he has only ever been a man.

    However, scripture states that the Son is not God and he is not a creation. He is between God and creation / man. He was the first to be with God. He came in the flesh for our sake. He is now in the glory he had with God before the cosmos. Creation is clearly defined as that which was made by God and through the Word. Jesus Christ is the Word.

    So who is being influenced by Greek philosophy here?

    #944381
    Nick
    Participant

    Thanks for your opinion.
    ”Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up”

    Jesus said this, or was it God speaking though him in Jn 2?

    #944382
    Nick
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    Hi PC,

    “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself”

    Was God silent in Christ?

    Hebrews1 tells us He spoke through His Son but you disagree?

    #944383
    Nick
    Participant

    For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the MAN Jesus Christ, who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.

    1 Tim2.5

    Yes a man is the mediator.

     

    #944384
    Nick
    Participant

    Because He has fixed a day when He will judge the world in righteousness through a MAN who He has chosen, having furnished proof to all men by raising him from the dead.

    Acts 17.33

    No doubt about it JESUS CHRIST is an anointed man.

    #944385
    Nick
    Participant

    We have the required witnesses to truth. ( 2 Cor 13.1f)

    #944389
    GeneBalthrop
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    Nick……Yes it was God the Father speaking through the mouth of Jesus, who said ,  ““destroy this Temple and in three day I (God) shall raise it up”.  That is the correct way to understand that . I have told theses people that for over ten years here at different times.

    There is another place where the same thing happened, when Jesus said…..Matt 23:37….> “O Jerusalem Jerusalem, you that killed the prophets, and stoned them that are sent unto you, how often would I (God) have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wing, and you would not.”

    Good work  Nick.

    peace and love to you and yours Nick……….gene

     

     

    #944391
    Berean
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    In the beginning WAS THE WORD and THE WORD WAS WITH GOD and THE WORD WAS GOD.

    AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH

    For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead (GOD)

    bodily (human body)

    Col.2:9)

    EMMANUEL: GOD WITH US

    And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.(1Tim.3:16)

     

    “When he says ‘without controversy,’ I suppose he means that there ought to be no controversy about these facts, though controversies have arisen concerning them, and always will, since the most self-evident truth will always find self-evident fools to contradict it.” (Spurgeon)

    God was manifested in the flesh: This is the essence of the incarnation; that the Son of God, the Second Person of the Holy Divinity, added to His deity humanity – and was thus manifested in the flesh.

     

    #944393
    Nick
    Participant

    “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.” 2 Cor 5.19

    Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and signs and wonders which God performed though him in your midst..

    Acts 2.22

    “God is at work in you to will and to do.”Phil 2.12”

     

     

    In Jesus and in us it is the work of God.

     

    #944394
    Nick
    Participant

    God was in Christ.

    But you think that makes the Son also God?….

    #944402
    Nick
    Participant

    Hi Berean,

    Scripture does not teach about any trinity so why do you call yourself that name?

    Surely if you were reborn from above you would be careful to stay within scriptural truth?

    Whom do you serve?

    #944403
    Nick
    Participant

    Hi Berean,

    The son of God spent a lot of time explaining his relationship to his Father God, his utter dependence on him and how God Who is in him did His works.

    But folks invented a theory to logically explain what they observed and confusion has ruled the world since that time. Such nonsense has cut men off from access to their loving Father.

    wake up

     

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