Our mystery pastor who speaks to 23,000 pairs of listening ears every Sunday morning turned flippant the other Lord's day to tell his massive congregation, "Jesus never claimed to be God." The way he put it was, "Jesus never said, Hey, guys, I'm God." Really? Is that true? Let's look at the Bible for the answer.
John 10:30: "I and the Father are one.”
John 10 :33: "The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
John 5:18: "This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God"
John 14:9: Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 8:24: "I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am [a claim to deity understood by the Israelites based on Exodus 3] you will die in your sins.”
Mark 14:61-64: "But He kept silent and did not answer. Again the high priest was questioning Him, and saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” 62 And Jesus said, “I am; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.” 63 Tearing his clothes, the high priest *said, “What further need do we have of witnesses? 64 You have heard the blasphemy; how does it seem to you?” And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death."
We could include verses in which Jesus accepted worship as God and never one time corrected those who knelt before Him. A case in point would be the doubter Thomas who declared to the risen Christ, "My Lord and my God!!
Case closed.
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