Did ANYONE In Scripture (Including Jesus), Claim Jesus IS God?

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HE is not a thing and must be understood as to WHOM the HE is referring to.

Back in the day as an Apostle = If you were in a court room as a eye-witness to JESUS and they asked you "Who is the Messiah?"
Are you going to say - "No one, it is a thing and/or purpose or "just a thought"

Question: Is God the FATHER a Person???

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It gets Difficult to TEACH “Persons…which ARE Human Body’s Created OUT of the (Created) Earth AND Made Alive ( Give a SOUL )… By the Power OF God…

Persons ARE….Alive Human/Earthly Body’s with A Soul IN their Body.

Bodily Dead humans are NOT Persons, or called A Person…
They are called; (referenced) dead, a cadaver, a loved one, by their name, by relationship, the departed, Etc.
Was A “person”…

The INVISIBLE Lord God Almighty Is called By His numerous Names…
* OR by His Titles (IT’S))…
LORD, Mighty, KING, etc.)
* OR by His Attributes (It / Things)…
LIGHT, JUST, WORD, GRACE, CREATOR, MAKER, etc.

He is not the Created…Yet created Humans / Earthly Beings…
As Well…have numerous Names, Titles, Things, It’s, Attributed TO each Individual…

Which is a “parallel” of human men Being IN His “Likeness”.

He …is The “(Thing)…. More precisely….(the HOLY THING) that was Sent Forth OUT of Gods Mouth) IN a Body, God Prepared, IN the “Likeness “AS” an Earthly Human Body….FOR the Express Purpose That Human MEN Could See Him…..HEAR Him…Learn From Him….
How “Earthly men” (Body, Soul, Spirit) could Become MADE In His Likeness.


In brief;
In Gods Mouth……………..….Isa 55:11
Holy Thing……………………….Luke 1:35
God prepared Body…..…….Heb 10: 5
God Purposed IN Himself…Eph 1:9
Likeness AS a Man…………..Phil 2:8 - Mk13:34
God IS Spirit……………………John 4:24
God is Light…………………….1 John 1:5
God is Love……………………..1John 4:8
God IS Truth…………………….Titus 1:2


*Angel spirits Also can Appear in the Likeness AS human men…….

* Angels spirits Get their Power From God….Can God NOT exercise the Same Of His Own Power He Has Given Angels?

* When a human Becomes MADE in Gods “Likeness” …. Does…that man BECOME God….?
Anymore than God Appearing IN the Likeness AS a Human MAKES God “A” Human?

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Here is more confirmation, regarding the creation and God's nature being also Christ and His working.

Isaiah 44

There Is No Other God​

6 “Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel,
And his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
‘I am the First and I am the Last;
Besides Me there is no God.

7 And who can proclaim as I do?
Then let him declare it and set it in order for Me,
Since I appointed the ancient people.
And the things that are coming and shall come,
Let them show these to them.
8 Do not fear, nor be afraid;
Have I not told you from that time, and declared it?
You are My witnesses.
Is there a God besides Me?
Indeed there is no other Rock;
I know not one.’ ”



24 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,
And He who formed you from the womb:
“I am the Lord, who makes all things,
Who stretches out the heavens [c]all alone,
Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;


We have First and Last as pertaining to God, and how He is the Rock, and God who makes all things by Himself

All those things are also shown in scriptures as Christ who says He is the First and Last, the Rock that followed Israel in the wilderness and the Rock was Christ, and for by Him all things were made in heaven and earth for Him, through Him, and in Him all things are.

Rev 1
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, [g]“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches [h]which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; 15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; 16 He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. 17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying [i]to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.

1 Cor 10

Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

1 Col 1
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or [e]principalities or [f]powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
 

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Did ANYONE In Scripture (Including Jesus), Claim Jesus IS God?

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I would consider Jesus a fraud if he said he was God. Would think it a bit odd if I came up to you and said "I am God." That's is not how one claims to be God. You have to demonstrate your deity by demonstrated that you are God.

The book you are looking is entitled "Putting Jesus in his place." the authors brilliantly show that Jesus is God by the acronym HANDS. Jesus accepts Honor that only belongs to God. He demonstrates the Attributes of God, etc. You would not believe how many places Jesus is shown to be God. It is the most scholarly presentation that I have seen that argues for Jesus' deity.
 

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What does that mean?

It means….
The Life (Blood) of All human, Earthly Man-Kind of Beings SHALL….MUST Die…
God Requires That….
(Gen 9:5
(Heb 9:27

It means…
Human men Have an OPTION…. Via An Offering From God….For humans TO FREELY, WILLINGLY, of their OWN FREEWILL To “TAKE” or “REJECT” Gods OFFERING (according TO Gods “Order and Way)…

Take His Offering…? The individual possess the “consequences Forever”…. (OSAS).

Learn His Offering….because It Precisely Applies “TO” The ….WHOLE of A Human
….Body….Soul….Spirit

A Gift From THE WHOLE OF God
Lord God Almighty

Take His Gift…. You POSSESS / Have the Gift.
Don’t Take It….You Can HOPE To Receive it.
Outright Reject it…You will Never Possess it.


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I would consider Jesus a fraud if he said he was God. Would think it a bit odd if I came up to you and said "I am God." That's is not how one claims to be God. You have to demonstrate your deity by demonstrated that you are God.

The book you are looking is entitled "Putting Jesus in his place." the authors brilliantly show that Jesus is God by the acronym HANDS. Jesus accepts Honor that only belongs to God. He demonstrates the Attributes of God, etc. You would not believe how many places Jesus is shown to be God. It is the most scholarly presentation that I have seen that argues for Jesus' deity.

Jesus spoke to The Jews , saying “I AM HE”… that THEY would (via their history) Know exactly What He meant…
And Absolutely THEY were Were “AGAST” and further want to Stone, Kill Him.

John 9:
[9] Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.

John.13
[19] Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.

John 10:
[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.

Jesus Fled.
Stoning Jesus to death in some alleyway…with few witnesses…was NOT Gods Plan.

Glory to God,
Taken
 

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I believe that God - he wants us to go to heaven to retain our earthly bodies - and keep our earthly human senses and visibly see and hear him, the father through Jesus.

- when we look upon Yahashua we are seeing the Father manifested in flesh

when we look upon Yahashua - we are looking upon the Father who has completed and fulfilled our relationship with him . The Spirit of Holy dwelling in him , Jesus

- whereby we would never be able to see or hear the father with human senses, he is invisible
 

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What does that mean?

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It a conceptual Teaching… nothing CAN BE MADE “Changed” in a natural body, of a human Man….
Until the Body IS Dead…

1 Cor
[36] Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

That was The ONLY Option For Human Men For 4,000 years..

That Option Continues. (UN-Confessed Heartfull Believers) (now and during the Last days Trib)
Shall be “soul” saved,
“spirit” quickened,
Dead Body risen “in Glory”. (Sinless.)

For the last 2,000+ years….Another OPTION
Was OFFERED to All Humans….
called a New BETTER TESTAMENT.

Heb 7:
[22] By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

This Option Requires a mans Heartful Testimony (by The Mans Confessional Word unto The Lord God)…
Accepting The Offering….
***By the mans Word and understanding…
He is CONFESSING TO the Lord…
* He is Heartfully Repentant…for having HAD, not Believed.
* He Heartfully desires his Soul to Be (restored) ie. Saved.
* He Heartfully desires his Spirit to be (born again of Gods SEED) ie. Quickened.
* He Heartfully Believes, Trusts and Understands Being CRUCIFIED “WITH” Jesus’ Body….”IS” accounted IN the Lambs Book of Life, AS that man Fulfilling his ONE “appointed Requirement” of a Bodily Death,,,, Before Salvation From God can Be Given the man.

Mindful ConfessionNo.
Carnal Minds are wishy washing, ever changing AND Against God.

Rom 8:
[7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Heartful thoughts of a man are the TRUE thoughts IN his Heart.

ONCE a man Opts to Learn, Believe, Trust….Christ Jesus’ Offering….AND confess their Heartful Belief IN His Him, In His Offering….

THEY are Called….
ARE Sanctified…
Soul restored…Saved
Spirit born again of Gods Seed…Quickened
Body…dead, washed, cleansed, covered, justified….TO BE RISEN, Revealed Manifested
in the Sight of All others (also saved, Quickened) Before their God….that They Can SEE Him the Invisible God….as He IS….Spirit.

1John 3:
[2] Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

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I don’t believe ‘born again’ means resurrected in a glorified body after death.

Billions have lived, Died…the Raising up of Billions…(saved and not saved)
Has Not NOT YET Occurred!

We currently Have Human Eyesight…thus Spiritual Beings Are “Invisible” to Us.

We WHO ARE “Accounted” … Soul Saved, Spirit Quickened, SHALL SEE their own, spiritual Body, When it is Raised.

Accounted Already DONE…is ONE Thing.

We SEEING (The manifestation)what God HAS DONE…is another thing.

We SAY… I am saved and Born Again…yet SEE our Same Natural Body.

God Sees and Accounts IN The Lambs Book of Life…What He Sees…being…
Restored Soul of a man
Quickened Spirit of a man
Glorified Body of a man

Pretty Handy For God To Have A BOOK of Evidence….For WHEN The Lord God comes To “gather / collect” What Is is Given Him and Sealed Unto to ONLY the Lord God Almighty TO Actually Rightfully Take unto Himself.

Remember the Son /Lord…shall Take Those that are His….(Rapture)
And
The Father /LORD…shall Take Those that are His. First Resurrection).

John 10:
[27] My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
[28] And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
[29] My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

Were the Ancient…to the modern Jews …In Christ Jesus’ Hand?
God Shall Raise those Believers.
God Shall Raise those, who Learned OF JESUS, and died Believing JesusThey are Raised By God.

(They called having Died “iN” Jesus.)

1 Thes 4:
[14] For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.


Those IN Christ, the Lord, Belong to and are “IN”…and Raised by Christ Jesus.

1 Thes 4
[15] For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
[16] For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
[17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.


Glory to God,
Taken
 

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A body must Die Before its SOUL “CAN be MADE SAVED” AND its’s BODY, “MADE BORN AGAIN”.
We have been over this Taken...the soul merely referes to the whole of life. The body along with its last breath dies and returns to the grave as taught in Genesis. After that nothing!

Being born again simply means having a mind enlightened to the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, expressed through willing obedience. This person will be raised from the dead and glorified anew when He returns.

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Meanwhile, it's clear to the rest of us that Jesus is the Word, the Son of God, God the Son.

Much love!
See what you've done there, Marks!

Why do you overstep and go beyond the boundaries of God's Word? You have neither permission nor evidence to do so.

If you're willing to cross that line, I have to wonder where else in your understanding you've gone astray.

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Why do you overstep and go beyond the boundaries of God's Word?
That's a "complex question", which is a logical fallacy.

Why do you ask me vain things?

Meanwhile . . . You really thing someone who is not God can create all that was created? I don't.

Did a mere man raise himself from the dead? No, of course not!

I pray you will come to see this.

Much love!
 

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If you're willing to cross that line, I have to wonder where else in your understanding you've gone astray.
If you deny God incarnate as man, what else will you deny? Where will it end?

Much love!
 

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That's a "complex question", which is a logical fallacy.
Even the simple minded can see your twist..nothing complex about it at all!
Why do you ask me vain things?
In the hope you will depart from your vanity and return to the original Gospel which has Power
Meanwhile . . . You really thing someone who is not God can create all that was created? I don't.
Again you show your lack of understanding by twisting the Word of God to favour your manmade teaching. Why do you do this? If Christ is the centre of Gods Creation and all things have been create for him, with him in mind then surely you can see how Paul can make that wonderful revelation?
Did a mere man raise himself from the dead? No, of course not!
No the One True God did that - you should read the book of the Acts of the Apostles - clearly taught there!
I pray you will come to see this.

Much love!
Why would God send me false teaching and lies? Pray for yourself Marks - you need all the help you can get.

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If you deny God incarnate as man, what else will you deny? Where will it end?

Much love!
God cannot become sin's flesh, Marks, and you know it. That's why the concept of the God-man/hypostasis was created. You hold to a doctrine that you neither fully understand nor can explain.

I truly regret that you've embraced it.

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God cannot become sin's flesh, Marks, and you know it.

Why do you bother to add to my words and then argue against what you've written? Wait . . . that's another fallacy. More vain speech. Why do you bother me with your nonsense? At least give an accurate rendition of what I've said. I mean, what's the point otherwise??

Much love!