19-06-2025, 08:32 AM
(19-06-2025, 08:29 AM)pinkpanther Wrote: You have to be intellectually honest with yourself if you read the NT...you cannot come to conclude that he is just a mere mortal!
John 8:58
"Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am."
John 10:30
"I and the Father are one."
John 14:9
"Whoever has seen me has seen the Father."
Revelation 1:17-18
"I am the First and the Last, and the Living One; I was dead, and now I am alive forever and ever."
Mark 14:61-62
When asked if He is the Christ, the Son of God, Jesus replies, "I am,"
The book of John is not synoptic and even so, those verses from John are ambiguous. You need to first believe Jesus is God before reading it and only then can you say Jesus is God because of those verses.
The verse in Mark doesn't make Jesus God because saying Jesus is the son of God doesn't make Jesus God. There are many sons of God in the Bible.