Are you saying Jesus has not got all power now?
Then......Jesus is Almight and Jesus is Almighty God with the name Yahweh.
The human Jesus with the nature of a servant (which He had to take because He did not have that nature before becoming a man) and being still a man was given ALL power. This power already belonged to Him since Jesus said that everything the Father has belongs to Him, the Son. (John 16:15) Jesus did not take what rightfully belonged to Him but was obedient and waited to be given it, as the Son. (see Phil 2:6,7)
Do you say that Almighty God is going to come? Are you waiting for that? I am. The Alpha and Omega, the Almighty God is coming.
Rev 1:7 “Look, he is coming with the clouds,”
and “every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him”;
and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.”
So shall it be! Amen.
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Zech 12:10 “And
I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on
me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
What a convoluted mess trinitarians make of the Bible. No reasonable logic observed, just contradictions.
No contradictions, just reading in context.
If Jesus was the Almighty, he wouldn’t need all power in Heaven and on Earth to be “given” to him....
He would have already had it!
It belonged to Him already as shown above. Your answer does not make sense when we look at what Jesus said about all that the Father has (John 16:15) and when we realise that Jesus had just been a powerless man when He said that the power had been given to Him, and still is a man.
If he was the Almighty, he would have known the “day and hour” of the coming judgment . — Matthew 24:36.
Again, as a man on earth Jesus relied on the Father for all things, including the knowledge of when He would return.
Even the JWs do not know that and never have when we consider the track record of their interpretations of prophecy while being guided by God as the only channel of truth to the world in these days.
Why do you quote Matt 24:36 when it really says that nobody knows when He is coming back? Even Jesus said that He will come when we do not expect. (Matt 24:44) Why bother trying to work out when He will come with statements like that in the Bible?
If Jesus was the Almighty, he wouldn’t have objected to being called ‘good’, rather, he said there is only one who is. — Luke 18:19
Jesus did not object to being called "good". He asked why and then said only God is good.
That is sort of a declaration to US that He IS God,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,because we know that He IS good.
If Jesus was the Almighty, he would have known truths to speak, not be “taught” them.. Luke 8:28
I don't know what Luke 8:28 has to do with it, try John 8:28. Jesus came as a servant and to do the will of Him who sent Him. He is the prophet of Deut 18:18. A prophets speaks as directed from God by His Spirit.
I don't think Jesus had to be "taught" as in a classroom, but He came to do the will of Him who sent Him.
If Jesus was the Almighty, he would have no need to pray by himself. — Luke 6:12-13.
Context, context is everything in the passages you give. What you quote is like me or an atheist quoting God as saying to go and kill certain people, but ignoring the context of the quote and who God is.
Jesus the man on earth came to live as a man and still be the sinless sacrifice. His prayers to His Father who became His God in His mothers womb (Ps 22:10) are just appropriate for Him.
If Jesus was the Almighty, he wouldn’t have prayed, “not my will be done, but yours.” — Luke 22:42
Jesus as a man did not want to die and so prayed that if it was possible to take it away from Him. Jesus as a man wanted to lust and lie His way out of situations and etc etc but He did not do that because ultimately He is good and even through temptation He submits to the will of God who is not tempted to turn aside to what pleases His carnal desires. Becoming a man brought temptations but this particular one, the desire to preserve His life was one that He submitted to the will of His God, as He did with any other temptation.
Why twist the scriptures when the plain meaning is, well, plain?
If Jesus was the Almighty, nothing could have killed him.
You JWs have a warped idea of death. Nowhere in the scriptures does it say that death means the extinction of the person. Nowhere in scripture does it teach that we do not have a spirit that survives death. In fact the existence of this spirit is plain in the scriptures and that is ignored by the Watchtower and those under it's spell. You know Matt 10:28 I presume. Do not fear those who can kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
In JW teaching death means the killing of the soul.
"Alive in the memory of God?" What kind of double talk is that to deny the plain meaning of this passage and others.
If Jesus was the Almighty, he wouldn’t have been referred to by Christians as God’s “holy servant.”- Acts of the Apostles 4:24-30 (It’s obvious from these verses, that, even after his resurrection, first-century Christians did not worship Jesus. Whom did they pray to? Jesus’ ‘God and Father’, — (John 20:17)
He IS God's Holy Servant. He became that servant and is Holy. He is the Holy One of Israel.
Acts 9:13 “Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your holy people in Jerusalem. 14 And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.”
1Cor 1:2
To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
The early Christians prayed to Jesus. The term "call on the name of" is from the OT and carries all the meaning in the NT that it did in the OT.
And why would they not pray to their Lord and their God? (John 20:28)
We call on the name the Lord to be saved. Jesus is the Lord and Jesus is Yahweh. "Jesus" is the only name given by which we are to be saved. (Acts 4:12)
If Jesus was the Almighty, his statement at John 5:30 would make no sense: “By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.”
...And on and on and on....
And on and on with texts misunderstood and used out of context.
John 5:30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
Jesus judges according to the will of God. He is a man and was when also when He spoke and spoke and acted in accordance with the will of the one who sent Him. He also will do that at the judgement when He comes to judge us all.
How sad! It’s good to give honor both to Jesus and his Father, Yahweh (two distinct & separate Personages). But worship belongs solely to Yahweh / Jehovah (Exodus 20:1-3); otherwise, you are breaking that commandment!
Jesus accepted worship from people but angels refused it. I guess it was fine to worship Jesus. He did not stop the apostles from doing that when He calmed the storm. He did not say "Don't do that, I'm just a servant of God" as the angel said to John in Revelation.
Not to mention that such a doctrine makes the Bible seem nonsensical.
On the contrary, it pieces together what is in the Bible and makes it coherent even if you seem to think you should be able to fully comprehend God before accepting what is written about Him.
