Christ-Jesus denied being God
HUNDREDS of times in the Gospel accounts and elsewhere in the New Covenant/Testament.
We have the following
TRUTH directly from Christ, through the mouth of Jesus, about His Father and His (Christ's) God:-
(with the words of Christ in blue)
John 10:29
MY FATHER, which gave [them] me, IS GREATER THAN ALL; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand.
John 14:28
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come [again] unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for MY FATHER IS GREATER THAN I.
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say,
MY GOD, MY GOD, why hast Thou forsaken me? (
Eno. 89:20;
Psalm 22;
Isaiah 52:13 to
54:1;
Sura 4:157-8.)
John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her,
Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto MY FATHER, and your Father; AND [to] MY GOD, and your God.
Revelation 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in The Temple of MY GOD, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of MY GOD, and the name of the city of MY GOD, [which is] New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from MY GOD: and [I will write upon him] my NEW name.
Matthew 6:9-10
6:9
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be THY name.
6:10
THY Kingdom come. Thy Will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.
John 13:16
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; NEITHER HE THAT IS SENT GREATER THAN HE THAT SENT HIM.
God very obviously does NOT have a God, or He wouldn't be God,
by definition. God is
THE MOST HIGH, i.e. there are
NONE higher nor equal to God. And anyone who believes differently is actually breaking the First Commandment.
There are over 50 references throughout the New Covenant to Christ as the Son OF God, i.e. the
CREATED offspring
OF God, where Father (God) is the
LITERAL Father and God of our Lord Christ-Jesus, exactly as Christ Himself said (
Matt. 27:46;
John 20:17;
Rev. 3:12).
References to Christ as the Son OF God (50)
Matthew (9): 4:3,
4:6,
8:29,
14:33,
16:16,
26:63,
27:40,
27:43,
27:54
Mark (5): 1:1,
3:11,
5:7,
14:61,
15:39
Luke (7): 1:32,
1:35,
4:3,
4:9,
4:41,
8:28,
22:70
John (11): 1:34,
1:49,
3:18,
5:25,
6:69,
9:35,
10:36,
11:4,
11:27,
19:7,
20:30
Acts (2): 8:37,
9:20
Books with single references
(5): Galatians 2:20,
2 Corinthians 1:19,
Romans 1:4,
Ephesians 4:13,
Revelation 2:18
Hebrews (4): 4:14,
6:6,
7:3,
10:29
1 John (7): 3:8,
4:15,
5:5,
5:10,
5:12,
5:13,
5:20
Also, three of the references to Christ being the
literal Son of God refer to Him as the Son of
THE Most High or
THE Highest. Further, there are at least three more references made by Father to
His Anointed (His Christ) as His Son.
Mark 5:7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou]
Son OF the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
Luke 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the
Son OF the Highest: and
THE LORD God his Father shall give unto him the Throne of David:
Luke 8:28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou]
Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
And in Psalms, where Father (God, the Most High) refers His Anointed (His Christ) as
His Son:
Psalm 2:7,
2:12,
Dan. 3:25.
Also of interest is the designation of the other angels, both in heaven and here on earth, as “the son
s of God”, “children of the Most High” or “son
s of the Living God”, etc., including:
Genesis 6:2-7,
Job 1:6,
2:1,
38:7,
Psalm 82:6,
Hosea 1:10,
John 1:12,
Romans 8:14-19,
Philippians 2:15,
1 John 3:1-2.
This of course is in perfect agreement with the references to Christ as
“the firstborn among many brethren” in
Romans 8:29,
“the firstborn of every creature” in
Colossians 1:15,
"the firstbegotten" (firstborn/first-created) in
Hebrews 1:1-6, and
“the beginning of the creation of God” in
Rev. 3:14. There simply is no other way for Christ to be the
literal Son of God (as well as the
literal first
born).
REFERENCES IN SCRIPTURE TO CHRIST AS “GOD THE SON”: ZERO (0)
REFERENCES IN SCRIPTURE TO “THE DEITY OF CHRIST”: ZERO (0)
The word “of”,
by definition, indicates the origin or derivation of something, e.g. a
Son OF God.
Common-sense: A Father
ALWAYS comes
BEFORE the Father's Son, just as a son
ALWAYS is descended
FROM the Son's Father. The Son is the
OFFSPRING CREATED BY the Father, by definition.
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There are over 80 references throughout the Gospel accounts to Jesus being the "Son of Man" (the human son of the virgin body of Mary), something that God Himself said He could
NEVER be, as God -- a
SPIRITUAL-BEING -- always exists and always will (
Exod. 3:14;
Num 23:19;
1 Sam. 15:28-29;
Job 9:32;
Hos. 11:9;
John 4:24).
Matthew (30): 8:20,
9:6,
10:23,
11:19,
12:8,
12:32,
12:40,
13:37,
13:41,
16:13,
16:27,
16:28,
17:9,
17:12,
17:22,
18:11,
19:28,
20:18,
20:28,
24:27,
24:30,
24:37,
24:39,
24:44,
25:13,
25:31,
26:2,
26:24,
26:45,
26:64
Mark (14): 2:10,
2:28,
8:31,
8:38,
9:9,
9:12,
9:31,
10:33,
10:45,
13:26.
13:34,
14:21,
14:41,
14:62,
Luke (26): 5:24,
6:4,
6:22,
7:34,
9:22,
9:26,
9:44,
9:56,
9:58,
11:30,
12:8,
12:10,
12:40,
17:22,
17:24,
17:26,
17:30,
18:8,
18:31,
19:10,
21:27,
21:36,
22:22,
22:48,
22:69,
24:7
John (11): 1:51,
3:13,
3:14,
5:27,
6:27,
6:53,
6:62,
8:19,
12:23,
12:34,
13:31
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There are over 50 references in the Gospel accounts to Christ being
SENT by His Father and His God.
References in the Gospel accounts to Christ being sent
by God
(52):-
Matthew (3): 10:40,
15:24,
21:37
Mark (2): 9:37,
12:6
Luke (6): 4:18,
4:26,
4:43,
9:48,
10:16,
20:13
John (41): 3:17,
3:34,
4:34,
5:23,
5:24,
5:30,
5:36,
5:37,
5:38,
6:29,
6:38,
6:39,
6:40,
6:44,
6:57,
7:16,
7:28,
7:29,
7:33,
8:7,
8:9,
8:17,
8:20,
8:33,
9:4,
10:36,
11:42,
12:44,
12:45,
12:49,
13:16,
13:20,
14:24,
15:21,
16:5,
17:3,
17:18,
17:21,
17:23,
17:25,
20:21
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In addition to over 50 references to Christ being the Son of God (i.e. the created offspring of God), over 80 references to Jesus (the son of Mary whom Christ incarnated 2000 years ago) being the "Son of Man" (something God Himself said He could
NEVER be), over 50 references to Christ being sent
by God, and numerous references made by Christ that He is only a Servant
of God, we have Christ's own words and example of worshiping, praying to, glorifying and giving all of the credit to Father (The ONE True God).
In fact, there are almost 200 verses referring to Father in the Gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and not one single verse referring to "the trinity" or to "the Father, Son and Holy Spirit" -- and that includes Matthew 28:19, where that wording was very obviously
ADDED to the original text by the Roman Catholic church, just as they did in 1 John 5:7-8.
IF there was such a thing as a "trinity", as we find in ancient Babylonian paganism, and this is allegedly some critically important doctrine (even though it's found nowhere in the Bible), as most "Christians" have been duped into believing, then why didn't Christ ever talk about it? We have almost 200 verses which presented a golden opportunity to promote the so-called "trinity" doctrine, and yet Christ
ALWAYS gave credit instead to Father,
Whom Christ plainly stated (at least 7 times) is Christ's God.
Only someone who is either completely blinded by their own arrogance/ignorance or who has never read the New Covenant/Testament could possibly ask where Christ-Jesus denied being God in the face of
HUNDREDS of such denials.
With regards to your question, remember Jesus' words after Peter's declaration:
Matt 16
15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.
Yes, God blessed Peter with the spiritual vision and truth that The Messiah/Christ was incarnated inside of Jesus IS the SON OF GOD, which no flesh and blood human seems to be able to understand.
You do understand what the word "of" actually means don't you?
Similarly, you do understand what the word "son" actually means, don't you?
The Son
OF God is very obviously
NOT The
ONE True God and Father
OF Christ, exactly as Peter said.
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed [be]
the God and Father of our Lord Christ the Saviour, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
It was never Jesus' intention to claim Godhood, but to have people recognize his Godhood despite His revelation in human form.
If by "Godhood" you mean to say that Christ -- the Firstborn Son of God Who was incarnated inside of Jesus (
John 1:10-14) -- is Divine, i.e. Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of God, then Christ, did make that claim numerous times (see the 50+ references above to Christ being the Son OF God).
If, on the other hand, you are attempting to claim that it wasn't Jesus intention to claim to be God, even though he allegedly meant to infer that, then you are promoting the exact opposite of what Jesus actually said (i.e. an obvious
LIE).
But some people who lack the ability to infer from implicit messages need to be spoon-fed the explicit, I suppose.
Agreed. And some are so spiritually blind that they actually don't know what the word "of" means, or what a Father is, or what a son is, after thousands of years here on Earth.
First counter question, as usual, would be: what is the Law? Is it the Ten Commandments, or all commandments present in the Torah?
Luke 10:25-29
10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit Eternal Life?
10:26 He said unto him,
What is written in The Law? how readest thou?
10:27 And he answering said,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
10:28 And he said unto him,
Thou hast answered right: this DO, and thou shalt Live.
10:29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Secondly, Jesus said no jot or tittle of the Law shall pass until all is fulfilled. When was it fulfilled?
Matthew 5:18
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass from The Law, till ALL be fulfilled.
Has heaven or earth passed away without any of us noticing?
Does the Law prohobit work during Sabbath?
What is written in The Law? how readest thou?
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