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5. The
Son of Man -
E. Was the Son of man God?
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He
had to learn obedience through suffering in order to be made perfect.
Again this is not the status of God. "Heb
10: 8 Though he
were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered."
While the Word of God is trying to show with different verses in the scripture
that God had become flesh (a mere man), why Christians are trying to
establish that He was God while He was a man? Is it not ignorance, which
cause deception?
Jesus
of Nazareth or the Son of Man did
not have the power attributes of the Spirit while He was living as a man. But
He cast out
devils, healed the sick, raised the dead and did miracles. If He was just
a man, how did he do the supernatural manifestations? He
confessed that he could not do any supernatural works by himself. 'God the
Father' does the works and shows to Jesus so that Jesus might do the same for the
people to see.
"John
5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto
them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but
what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth
the Son likewise. 20 For the Father
loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew
him greater works than these, that ye may marvel."
In the Old Testament God has done many miracles through His people, especially
through Moses. Moses was there and did what God want him to do. Then
God did the miracles. In the New Testament the apostles has done the same
kind of miracles as Jesus Christ did. A person doing miracles is not a
proof that he is God. Here God the Father Showed Jesus Christ what to
do and God the Father did the miracles. It appeared to be that Jesus
was doing them. But God was behind Jesus Christ doing every supernatural
manifestation.
Jesus preached the gospel and gave commandments so that
the people may live a holy life and should inherit the kingdom of God. He again
confessed that He did not say anything of himself, but the Father taught him all
the things that he said.
"John 8:28
--- that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I
speak these things.
John 12:49
For I have not spoken of myself; but
the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what
I should speak. 50 And I know
that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as
the Father said unto me, so I speak."
In the
Old Testament God gave the commandments to Moses and Moses gave the commandments
to the People. God the Father told Jesus what all the things to preach,
including the gospel of His kingdom. Jesus preached those things to
the people.
God
is a Spirit.
"John 4:24 God is a Spirit."
The
awesome power attributes; Omnipotent, Omnipresence and Omniscience are in the
Spirit of God. Because of these attributes, God was the creator and and we
worship Him as God.
He is also a Soul which is a Person.
"Matt 12:18 ---
my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased.
Heb 10:38 Now the just shall
live by faith: but if any man draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure in him. Jer
5:9,29 -- shall not
my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?" As a soul He is a perfect holy Person and He require
us to be holy and perfect also because we are also souls, created in His
image.
A soul that lives holy is not necessarily God. But a Spirit, that has
Omni-powers, is God. God the Word ceased to be the Spirit which has
the awesome powers and He (His Soul) became flesh (human soul). We
can say, 'God the Word' stripped aside His Spirit, along with
His awesome powers which and He became flesh (a mere man), who is not
God. 
The
antichrist deceives the
people regarding the Son of man. He makes the people believe that Jesus was doing the miracles and living a perfect
holy life only because He was God. But the truth is that God became flesh
(mere man), which
was Jesus. God is a Spirit.
"John
4:24 God is a Spirit:--."
But
He became Flesh (mere man).
"John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh ---." God did not come as a man,
but He became a man. That is to say "Jesus Christ is come in the flesh".
"1 John 4:2 ---:
Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is
not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it
should come; and even now already is it in the world."
Satan doesn’t
want the people to inherit the kingdom of God. He makes them believe that Jesus
lived a holy life because He was God and they cannot live holy life because they
are human. It is a lie of the devil. By the grace of God, that
is by the help God, all
things are possible.
"Matt 19:25 --- Who then can
be saved? 26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men
this is impossible; but with God all things are possible."
The purpose of Satan is to make people disobey God by deceiving
them. Jesus lived a holy
life with the power of God, as a
man.
Then, any man with the power of God can live a holy life, provided the man wants to live a holy life
as much as Jesus wanted to live a holy life. But the servants of Satan are systematically and strategically
teaching just the opposite.
Most of
the false teachers don't even know that they are false teachers. They are like
Eve, who was deceived by Satan, deceived her husband without knowing that
she was deceiving him.
"2 Cor
11:14
And
no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15
Therefore
it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of
righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works."
A Christian will say without hesitation that his God is
Jesus Christ. However, there is a difference between the Man Jesus,
who died on the cross
and the
Lord Jesus Christ, who was resurrected. 'God the Creator' became a
mere
man, Jesus of Nazareth. He died on the cross as the Lamb of God and was buried.
That was the end of his being a man, because the Most High God and God the Holy
Spirit raised Jesus from the dead, made him the Lord and
Christ, declared him as the Begotten Son and called him God. Because of
God's declaration and the other actions, the Man Jesus became God and Lord Jesus
Christ at his ascension.
Which Jesus
Christians worship? Do they look up to heaven and worship Jesus
Christ, who is God?
OR, Do they look back 2000 years and worship the Image of the Man Jesus
as God? The Man Jesus does not exist anymore. The Lord Jesus Christ is no longer
a man on earth. But he is God of gods, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. This
Jesus Christ is sitting on the right hand of God the Father in heaven as God.
Being made
a man,
He further humbled himself, became
obedient unto the death of the cross. So God the Father (Most High God) raised
him up from the dead and exalted him to the Utmost Position so that every knee should
bow to Him and everyone shall call Him
the Lord. "Phil 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he
humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above
every name: 10
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things
in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And
that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father."
When 'the Most
High God' exalted 'the Man Jesus' above everything on earth, in Hell and in
heaven. "Phil 2:9 Wherefore God also
hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in
heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father."
He declared Him as 'the Begotten Son of God'. This
action of God was prophesied in the second Psalm and the fulfillment is
explained in the thirteenth chapter of the book of Acts. "Psa
2:7 I will declare
the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I
begotten thee. Acts 13:32 And we declare
unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in
that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second
psalm,
Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."
The following references also show that the declaration of the
begotten Son was at the event of his resurrection from the dead.
"Col 1:18 ---: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead;. Rev 1:5
... Jesus Christ, who is the faithful
witness, and the first begotten of the dead,
Rom 1:4 And declared to
be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the
resurrection from the dead: Heb
1:5 ... Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?
And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?"
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