5. Colossians 2:9-10 “For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily. and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.“
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
ESV For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
NIV For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
The Bible says that God is sprit so it cannot lives in bodily form! Besides that all of God could not “dwell” in a man!
10 He is the head over every power and authority
During His dispensation, Jesus was once the head over every power and authority but not anymore.
6. John 10:33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.“
Just because the Jews
believed that Jesus was claiming to be God that does not mean that Jesus was claiming to be God. If you read the verses
in context you can clearly see that
Jesus was NOT claiming to be God. In John 30:36, Jesus said that He claimed to be
the Son of God, NOT God. A Son is not His Father, they are separate from each other.
John 10 KJV
30 I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest;
because I said, I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Jesus was the Son of God, but
the Son is not identical to the Father, even though
the Father is in the Son.
John 14:11 Believe me that
I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
John 17:21 That they all may be one;
as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Jesus was like a clear mirror, and God became visible in the mirror. This is why Jesus said, “The Father is in the Son” (
John 14:11,
John 17:21), meaning that God is
visible and manifest in Jesus.
7. 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.“
The Jews thought that Jesus was claiming to be God because Jesus said that God was His Father, but being the Son of God does not mean Jesus was God. It means that Jesus is
not God, but rather the
SON of God.
8. John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.“
John 1 King James Version (KJV)
I believe that the Word refers to Jesus.
The Word was God because
Jesus was God manifested in the flesh
1 Timothy 3:16 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.
Jesus was not God incarnated in the flesh, because God cannot become flesh:
“Know thou of a certainty that the Unseen can in no wise incarnate His Essence and reveal it unto men. He is, and hath ever been, immensely exalted beyond all that can either be recounted or perceived. From His retreat of glory His voice is ever proclaiming: “Verily, I am God; there is none other God besides Me, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. I have manifested Myself unto men, and have sent down Him Who is the Day Spring of the signs of My Revelation.”
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 49
The following two verses are
about God, not about Jesus. All things were made by God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
To summarize, the Word was Jesus who was a Manifestation of God.
The Holy Spirit and the Word are the "appearance of God." The Word means the divine perfections that "appeared" in Jesus Christ. That's why we have this verse further down.
9. John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.“
The Word (Jesus) was made flesh and dwelt among us means that Jesus, who had previously been with God in the spiritual world (heaven) before His birth, was born into this world (made flesh) and walked among us.
(96) PRE-EXISTENCE - of Prophets
The Prophets, unlike us, are pre-existent. The soul of Christ existed in the spiritual world before His birth in this world. We cannot imagine what that world is like, so words are inadequate to picture His state of being.
(Shoghi Effendi: High Endeavors, Page: 71)
The reason
John 1:1 says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God," is because
Jesus was with God in the spiritual world
in the beginning.
10. 1 John 5:20 “And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.“
The Son of God is not God, He is the SON of God.
11. John 8:57-58 “The people said, “You aren’t even fifty years old. How can you say you have seen Abraham?” Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I Am!”
Jesus existed before Abraham because the soul of Jesus existed in the spiritual world (heaven) long before Abraham was born into this world.
(96) PRE-EXISTENCE - of Prophets
The Prophets, unlike us, are pre-existent. The soul of Christ existed in the spiritual world before His birth in this world. We cannot imagine what that world is like, so words are inadequate to picture His state of being.
(Shoghi Effendi: High Endeavors, Page: 71)
12. John 8:22-24 “This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?” But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am He, you will indeed die in your sins.”
That’s right, the soul of came down from ”above” the spiritual world (heaven), as noted in #11 above. To explain in brief, Jesus was made manifest from
the heaven of the will of God, and appeared in the form of a human being. The term “heaven” means loftiness and exaltation. Although Jesus was delivered from the womb of His mother, in reality He descended from the heaven of the will of God. Though dwelling on this earth, His true habitation was the realms above. While walking among mortals on earth, Jesus soared in the heaven of the divine presence.
13. John 13:18-19 “I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’ “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am.
CONTEXT is everything. These verses read in context clearly show that
Jesus is not God. Jesus was a servant of God and the servant is not greater than his lord and he that is sent (Jesus) is not greater than he (God) who sent him (Jesus). and he that receiveth me (Jesus) receiveth him (God) that sent me.
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.
17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
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I know you want Jesus to be God, but you cannot use the Bible to prove that since the Bible proves that Jesus is not God.
