Jesus was Son of God - Baptism by Jon, Transfiguration and Ascension, How do you understand?
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My interpretation is that religion is not meant to be understood - you believe things on faith.
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"}\ndid Jesus claim to be God and the son of God?\nyes \n\ndid he demand that he be believed \nyes\n\nNot only did he make that claim for himself but the father made it on his behalf!
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God loved the world so much that He sent his son to die for you.  Jesus died so the world could be saved.  Jesus then proved His divinity when He rose from the dead.
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Without a doubt, you have often heard the claim that Jesus is God, the second person in the "Holy Trinity". However, the very Bible which is used as a basis for knowledge about Jesus and as the basis for the doctrine within Christianity clearly belies this claim.\n1. God Is All Knowing.....But Jesus Was Not \n\nWhen speaking of the Day of Judgement, Jesus clearly gave evidence of a limitation on his knowledge when he said, "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in Heaven, neither the son, but the Father." (Mark 13:32 and Matt. 24:36) But God knows all. His knowledge is without any limitations. That Jesus, of his own admission, did not know when the Day of Judgement would be.\n\n. God Is All-Powerful.....But Jesus Was Not \n\nWhile Jesus performed many miracles, he himself admitted that the power he had was not his own but was derived from God when he said, "Verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do..." (John 5:19). Again he said, "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear I judge: and my judgement is just; because I seek not mine own will but the will of the Father which has sent me." (John 5:30)\n\n3. God Does Not Have A God.....But Jesus Did Have A God \n\nGod is the ultimate judge and refuge for all, and He does not call upon nor pray to any others. But Jesus acknowledged that there was One whom he worshipped and to Whom he prayed when he said, "I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God." (John 20:17). He is also reported to have cried out while on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46). \nIf Jesus were God, then couldn't this be read, "Myself, myself, why hast thou forsaken me?". Would that not be pure nonsense? When Jesus prayed the Lord's Prayer (Luke 11:2-4), was he praying to himself? When in the garden of Gethsemane he prayed, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt." (Matt. 26:36). Was Jesus praying to himself? \n\nAccording to the Bible, God is an invisible spirit.... \n\n4. But Jesus Was Flesh And Blood \n\nWhile thousands saw Jesus and heard his voice, Jesus himself said that this could not be done with God when he said: "No man hath seen God at any time." (John 1:18). "Ye have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His shape." (John 5:37) He also said in John 4:24: "God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." Jesus would say that no one had seen or heard God at any time, while his followers both saw and heard him, is clear proof that Jesus was not God. \n\n5. Will Was Distinct From His Own \n\nPerhaps the clearest indication we have that Jesus and God are not equal, and therefore not one and the same, comes again from the mouth of Jesus himself who said in John 14:28: "My Father is greater than I." When someone referred to him as a good master in Luke 18:19, Jesus responded: "Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is God..." Furthermore, Jesus drew clear distinctions between himself and God when he said, "I proceeded forth and came from God, neither came I of myself but He sent me." (John 8:42) Jesus gave clear evidence of his subordination to God, rather than his equality with God, when he said in Luke 22:42, "not my will but Thine be done" and in John 5:30, "I seek not mine own will but the will of the Father which has sent me." \n\nThe Church recognises the Bible as the primary source of knowledge about God and Jesus. But since the Bible makes it clear that Jesus is not the Supreme Being and the Supreme Being is not Jesus, upon what basis have you come to believe otherwise? \n\nThe belief that the Supreme Being is a Trinity is false and completely inconsistent with the words of Jesu
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You should believe Jesus is really God's Son, because He fulfilled all of the prophecies written about the Messiah hundreds of years before He was born.  Many of those prophecies had to do with his birth, which of course, He would have had no control over/could not have manipulated...unless, of course, He really IS the Son of God.\n\nAnd the prophecies about Jesus aren't the only ones to have come true.  Most, if not all, of the prophecies in the Old Testament have already come to pass.  NONE of them have ever been proven to be false.  The prophecies in the New Testament have either come to pass or have yet to come to pass.  Again, I reiterate, NONE of the prophecies in the Bible have ever been proven to be false.  This is the true test of whether or not a prophecy is of God.\n\nThe Bible has withstood the test of time.  It is truly God's Word.  It clear teaches us that Jesus is the Son of God, and He is!
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Friend, the trinity doctine will always dis-agreed with there is only One God, They try to make Jesus God, when they do that then they are saying God Died. I was once myself a trinity when I first got saved in 1970, The Godhead is the very first thing God revealed to me. If those Trinity believers, can prove that anyone in the bible were ever baptized in the TITLES of the father, son, & holy ghost, I would like to see it, Everyone that was baptized was Baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Jesus is NOT God.\n\nJesus proclaimed to be The Son of God.\nJesus is The King of Kings. Lord of Lords.\nJesus Christ is the only way to The Father Jehova.\nJesus Christ is the 2nd in The trinty, not the First.\nThe Holy spirit is the 3rd in the Trinity, not the 2nd.\n\nGod The Father..Jesus The Son. The Holy Spirit in the Trinity, just in that order.\n\nIf Jesus Christ is God in the flesh, He would be called "God in the flesh". Jesus is called"The Son of God"., for a reason. Because He is.\n\nJehovah God said what?  I will have NO other God's before me.\nDon't put Jesus Christ before Jehovah God.\n\nWe are Christians and ONE in Christ through the Blood. \n\nJehovah, Jesus, The Holy Spirit are ONE through the power of God.\n\nWe are Christians _Christ like.\nWe are not Jehovians, Jehova-likes.\nIf we were Jehovah like, we would be "equals to God.\n\nWe are God's children, not God's equals.
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This is a difficult question, and I'm not sure I can answer it all satisfactorily, but I think I can help.  \n\nWith the first part, 'no other gods,' Christians don't believe that Jesus is another god, but rather the same one.  Two different facets of the same God (with the Holy Spirit being the third).  What's more, you know that in Genesis, God speaks in the plural 'let's go do this.'  Also, the Hebrew word for God - elohim - is also plural.\n\nSecond, it is true that Jesus never called himself 'God the Son.'  The way he speaks of himself as 'the son of God,' however, is unique.  He says, "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him" (Luke 10:22).  Also, he is called by the Greek word for "one and only son", "mono-genes", means literally, "one in kind, unique."  This seems to contradict the view that we are all sons and daughters of God on the same level as Jesus.  Finally, in John 15:15, Jesus says "I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father."  God is the only person to whom we (humanity in general) could ever reasonably be called slaves.  How could we have been 'slaves' to Christ is he weren't also God?\n\nOne more word on the Trinity: God sent "his spirit" down onto "his son."  Additionally, in Matthew 28:18-20 it's said, "Then Jesus approached and said to them, 'All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.  And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.'"\n\nIn the early Church, the Jews celebrated the Sabbath on Saturday, and then Christ's resurrection on Sunday.  The gentiles who entered the Church, however, didn't celebrate the Sabbath, but only the resurrection.  Eventually, the Church accumulated more gentiles, and observation of the Sabbath was fell out, leaving only the celebration of Christ's resurrection.\n\nIn a sense, Paul is claiming to speak for Jesus, but this is warrented.  He is relaying Christ's message, or the spirit of it, to us.  First, recall that although Jesus appeared a second time for Thomas, on that occasion he said "But blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."  Now if they have not seen, how can they believe?  How can they even know about the resurrection?  Obviously, someone has to tell them, someone has to speak for Christ.  Someone like Paul, or any of the apostles.  What is more, that is the mission Jesus gave them.  He sent them out as missionaries to go to the Jews and then to the gentiles.  They were, in essence, his ambassadors to the world.  They spoke for him because he wanted them to; that was their task.  Now, to reconcile the two paths to heaven that you mentioned.  If you truly believe that Jesus is lord and that he rose from death and that he died as sacrifice for our sins as Paul says, then how could we not "love God, love our neighbor, help the poor?"  If we say we believe and yet don't try to do these things, then despite what we may say, we don't truly believe.  The two go hand in hand.
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Let me first say that all my references from the Bible are from the New Internation Version (NIV).  Please don't take offense to anything I say.  That is in no way my intention.  If I were sitting with you in person, I would say the same things, probably more.  I am only trying to answer your questions to the best of my ability.\n\n1.  Jesus said "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."  (John 3:16-17)  In John 14:7, He said "If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.  From now on, you do know him and have seen him."  John 1:1 also says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." That may not specifically say "I am God," but it does say that Jesus is part of God and that whoever knows him knows God.  \n\n2.In John 14:6 it says "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me."  When teaching the way to Heaven, Jesus said "Enter through the narrow gate.  For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." (Matthew 7:13-14)  Those who don't go to Heaven will have an eternal life of sorts, an eternal life of torment in Hell.\n\n3.  In the days before Jesus came to earth, the Jews sacrificed animals to atone for their sins, as directed by God in the books of law, the first five books of the Old Testament.  Jesus came to teach us how to live a life to glorify God and attain eternal life with Him in Heaven.  In order to stop us from having to live according to the strict laws previously given, Jesus was crucified as a sacrifice to atone for the sins of all people to ever be born.  The short answer is because God loved us. (See John 3:16-17)\n\n4.  I don't believe it is God that makes us skeptical; it is Satan who gets into our heads and makes us skeptical.  Even Satan knows that God will eventually win in the end.  He wants to take as many people to Hell with him as possible.  God didn't create you to be an agnostic.  Satan put that in your mind.  No doubt, God made you intelligent.  He could have made us where we would never question Him on anything.  However, God didn't want a world full of puppets or robots.  He gave us free will.  Christianity isn't biased toward people who are easily led.  I know many Christians who are leaders, not followers.  I've known people who were very skeptical before becoming Christians.  Whether or not to believe in the Bible and in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is a decision that you make.  We either choose to believe or not.  Faith is the key word.  If you have faith in the world and science, you will most likely not be open to believing things that you cannot see and touch.  That doesn't mean it's impossible.  There are lots of Christians who once were skeptics.  Even Thomas, one of Jesus' disciples, needed to put his hand in the nail holes to believe that Jesus had been resurrected.  "So the other disciples told him, 'We have seen the Lord!'  But he said to them, 'Unless I see the nail marks in has hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.'  A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them.  Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you!' Then he said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands.  Reach out your hand and put it into my side.  Stop doubting and believe.'  Thomas said to him, 'My Lord and my God!'  Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed ar
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Jesus is God. Christians who say otherwise either do not know the fundamentals of the faith, are apostate, or are heretics. The Apostle's and Nicene Creeds both affirm this doctrine, and the biblical evidence is overwhelming.\n\nJesus said of Himself that He was God. He applied the name of God, "I AM," to Himself in several passages. Here's a few examples: Matthew 14:27, Mark 6:50, Mark 13:6, Luke 21:8, John 4:26, John 6:20, John 8:24, 28, 58, and John 13:19. (Some English translations have mistranslated the words "I am" to "It is I," or "I am He.")\n\nJesus received worship, which is reserved only for God:\n\n"Then the men in the boat began to worship Jesus, saying, "You certainly are the Son of God!" (Matthew 14:33)\n\n"Suddenly Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" They went up to him, took hold of his feet, and worshiped him." (Matthew 28:9)\n\n"They worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy." (Luke 24:52)\n\n"He said, "Lord, I do believe," and worshiped him." (John 9:38)\n\nFurther, the god of Muhammad is not the Father of Jesus. The Qur'an states rather clearly, "Proclaim: Allah is One. Allah is Eternal. He neither begets nor was begotten." (Surah 112:1-4)\n\nIn Christianity, we believe that Jesus was begotten. (John 1:14) And we believe Jesus to be God.\n\nNow, we have a conundrum. Either Islam is right, and Jesus is not God, nor begotten; or Christianity is right, and Jesus is God, and is begotten. We can't have it both ways. Islam will never hold to a belief that Jesus is God. And Christians will not accept that Jesus is not God, and is not begotten. Therefore, they do not worship the same God.\n\nOther "gods" fall short as well.  There is no other true god than the One of the Holy Bible found in the Old and New Testaments.
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Jesus was a 100% God and a100% man. He is part of the Trinity. IT is not something that can easily be explained, even if God were to reveal this answer to us now and explain this, our human minds would not be able to comprehend what he said. God is much bigger and infinitely more intelligent than we are. We cannot confine him in just a book, a church, or even up in heaven somewhere, because God is everywhere, he knows everything, and is King of kings and Lord of lords. He gave us his word which is called The Holy Bible in order to show us what we must do on earth to be good servants and followers for him, and that is all we need for now. Instead of asking trivial questions, ask yourself what purpose God has for your life, and how he wants to work through you to spread his Gospel to others. I will pray for you. Have a nice day! =)
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Jesus is not an angel, he's higher than the angels. John 1:1 brings out that the Word(Jesus before being born to Mary)was WITH GOD and was a god.Also that ALL things came in to existence through him. But he is not the Almighty God, Psalms 83:18 will tell you the name of the only true God. John 14:28, John 3:16,18 and 1 John 4:9,10 also shows Jesus is not God, but Gods son.
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Maryam : 19 : 88-92\n\nThey have said that the Beneficent God has given birth to a son (19:88). This is certainly a monstrous lie! (19:89). \n\nThis would almost cause the heavens to rent apart, the earth to cleave asunder and the mountains to crumble down in fragments, (19:90) to ascribe a son to the Beneficent God (19:91). \n\nThe Beneficent God is too Exalted to have a son (19:92).\n\nAz Zukhruf : 43 : 81\n\n(Muhammad), say, "Had the Beneficent God really had a son, I would certainly have been the first one to worship him (43:81).
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Jesus is not God. He never claimed to be God. At John 3:17, does it say that God came to earth? No. It says that God sent his Son, not himself.\n\nThe scripture you used at John 8:58 is another trinitarian "proof" that Jesus is God. But is it? The expression at John 8:58 is quite different from the one used at Exodus 3:14. Jesus did not use it as a name or a title but as a means of explaining his prehuman existence. Hence, note how some other Bible versions render John 8:58. \n\n1869: "From before Abraham was, I have been." The New Testament, by G. R. Noyes. \n \n1935: "I existed before Abraham was born!" The Bible—An American Translation, by J. M. P. Smith and E. J. Goodspeed. \n \n1965: "Before Abraham was born, I was already the one that I am." Das Neue Testament, by Jörg Zink. \n \n1981: "I was alive before Abraham was born!" The Simple English Bible. \n \n1984: "Before Abraham came into existence, I have been." New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.  \n\nThus, the real thought of the Greek used here is that God's created "firstborn," Jesus, had existed long before Abraham was born. Colossians 1:15; Proverbs 8:22, 23, 30; Revelation 3:14. \n\nAgain, the context shows this to be the correct understanding. This time the Jews wanted to stone Jesus for claiming to "have seen Abraham" although, as they said, he was not yet 50 years old. (Verse 57) Jesus' natural response was to tell the truth about his age. So he naturally told them that he "was alive before Abraham was born!\n\nThere is no Bible verse that says Jesus is Almighty God.
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Jesus, the flesh & blood MAN, was the Son of God. He was God, the Father, placed into a flesh & blood Body, born of the Virgin Mary (MATTHEW 1:23). To become a Sacrifice for us.\nA son has a beginning. The Sonship of God is not eternal. God is our Spiritual Father. There is only ONE person in God. He is not two, or three. He is ONE.\nJesus (Jehovah has become our Saviour), was everything.\nHe was an example. He was the fulfillment of Scripture. He was the Prophet of Prophets. He was also went thru the adoption process, so we could become sons & daughters of God.\n He, Jesus, as the body of a MAN, was glorified when He rose to Heaven. He, Jesus, as the body of a MAN, was given all power & authority. The BODY was the Son, not the Spirit. God, the Father, is the Creator. But that flesh body was what He decided to dwell in. So He could redeem us.\nRead ISAIAH 45 - COLOSSIANS 2:9 - 1 TIMOTHY 3:16.\nHe is now Lord of lords and King of kings.\nHe comes in 3 stages...\nSon of God - as a flesh & blood man (example, sacrifice, fulfillment of the Law, Lamb of God).\nSon of Man - as the Spirit of a Prophet...to dwell in His Apostles & Prophets (to make us one with the Father).\nSon of David - as the Glorified State of God, the Father, rulingas 'King of kings' in the Body of His express image - Jesus Christ (To become ruler of this World. Which will come soon!).\nSee also ISAIAH 9:6.\nBut it takes a revelation to fully understand the Godhead.\nTo learn more, click here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/
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John 1:1 the Word was WITH God .....WITH....WITH....how can you be WITH God and Be God....in Greek the definate article is missing which is supposed to tell the reader that the word is with God and he is God-like or Divine in nature....that is all!!! \n\nYou wana show me verse 14....ok read verse 14....then read 18....NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD at any time.....( but 14 said the word resided among us didn't it?????)\n\nTrinity (or 3-in-one Deities) is a pagan belief transferred to Christendom’s Doctrine. Trinity has a bizarre origin, (see this on-line book http://www.biblebelievers.com/babylon/)... \n\nScriptures have been tampered with, (KJ 1Jo 5:7), and God’s personal name has been removed from the bible text to help sell this false belief. Trinity is not taught in the Bible anywhere. Jesus Christ did not teach it to his followers. It is a difficult, if not impossible concept for anyone to rectify and harmonize with true, important Bible concepts such as the Ransom and the messiah-ship. \n\nJesus Clearly and repeatedly showed himself to be separate and subordinate to his heavenly father who is named in the Bible several thousands of times, (Jehovah). His apostles consistently manifested a belief in a supreme being who was not the same individual as Jesus Christ.\n\nJesus Christ is the name of the individual who was transferred by supernatural power to the womb of a virgin to become a perfect HUMAN. He was the very first thing created by the creator. Before becoming human, his very being was exactly the same as his creator’s. His very personality, his goals, his desires, his love, is exactly the same as his father. Everything else created was created by the father but through and with the son. He became God’s spokesman or mouthpiece and that is why he carries the name and title “Word”. He commands all of the armies of angels. He is the authentic “seed” who will champion all of the Creator’s purposes and return the universe to the situation originally purposed by Jehovah God the creator, as the King of God’s Kingdom, (A government with a heavenly seat). He is the Messiah, and the Ransomer who redeemed the lives of all humanity by paying the ransom price lost by the original human pair. He gave his perfect human life to pay that price. He did not pay that ransom price with a Creator’s life or a God’s life. His father, (a separate all powerful individual who was still alive) Resurrected him from death, (Hell) to a life once again as a spirit creature like he was before and sat him on a throne at his right hand to wait until his Kingdom rule was to begin. \n\nHoly Spirit is not an individual personality; it is God’s active force or power.\n\nChristendom will be held responsible for the perpetuation of the filthy trinity doctrine\n\nEDIT: If you have not noticed the answers from devout muslim people show that thay are offended by the false teaching that Jesus is God.
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John the Baptiser was sent (of God) to be the bridge between the Old and New Covenants. He was of the same house (Jesus & he were cousins) and consecrated Jesus by baptism. I personally feel that he was no more than a tool, given birth by elderly parents (aunt & uncle of Jesus) for the sole purpose of paving the way for the Messiah. "So the first will be last..."\n\nAll of those who John baptised became Jesus' followers after His consecration.