again think about this for a sec..........
According to most Christians, Jesus was God-incarnate, fully man and fully God. Can the finite and the infinite be one? 鈥淭o be fully God鈥?means freedom from finite forms and from helplessness, and to be 鈥渇ull man鈥?means the absence of divinity.
1. To be son is to be less than divine and to be divine is to be no one鈥檚 son. How could Jesus have the attributes of Sonship and divinity altogether?
2. Christians assert that Jesus claimed to be God when they quote him in John 14:9: 鈥淗e that has seen me has seen the Father鈥? Didn鈥檛 Jesus clearly say that people have never seen God, as
it says in John 5:37: 鈥淎nd the father himself which Has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have
neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His shape鈥?
3. Christians say that Jesus was God because he was called Son of God, Son of Man, Messiah, and 鈥渟avior鈥? Ezekiel was addressed in the Bible as Son of Man. Jesus spoke of 鈥渢he peace makers鈥?as Sons of God. Any person who followed the Will and Plan of God was called SON OF GOD in the Jewish tradition and in their language1. 鈥淢essiah鈥?which in Hebrew means 鈥淕od鈥檚 anointed鈥?and not 鈥淐hrist鈥? and 鈥淐yrus鈥?the person is called 鈥淢essiah鈥?or 鈥渢he anointed鈥? As for 鈥渟avior鈥? in II Kings 13:5, other individuals were given that title too without being gods. So where is the proof in these terms that Jesus was God when the word son is not exclusively used for him alone?
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