A car or a computer doesn't just exist. Their existence depends on design and purpose
The reasons why Atheists exist is due to the Christians misinterpreting their religion and
Jesus said those who seek will find him. Jesus didn't have to say directly that he is God and to worship him because that would be vain.
Matthew 7:8
First and foremost, David Wood talking about what Islam thinks, doesn’t answer the question. Forget Islam for the mean time.
The question I asked was, where did Jesus explicitly state that he was God and to worship him.
1. David wood states that Jesus said in revelation –
Revelation cannot be used as a source due to the authors being anonymous (Christians don’t even know who the author is) and the text showing up 61 years + after the so-called crucifixion.
2. Seeking forgiveness is NOT being God as David Wood implies (Jesus says son of man can also forgive sin Matthew 9:6)
3. Who is our final judge?
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God gives authority not Jesus
John 17:1-4
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, even as
You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. This is eternal life, that they may know You,
the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.
Nobody HAS SEEN THE FATHER John 5:37
37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
God and Jesus different John 20:17
John 20:17
17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
God the source (1 God)
Jesus said: "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent" (John 17:3)
God the only knower of future (Jesus lacks knowledge)
Mark 13:32 (NASB)
"But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."
Matt 24:36 (NASB)
But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
Can
Gods authority be stripped? And Jesus says I have no authority John 5:30
God is one
1 Timothy 2:5 (NASB)
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
Ephesians 4:5-6 (NASB)
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
God and Jesus are different entities
1 Corinthians 8:4-6
Therefore, concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and
that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, yet for us
there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
Jesus calling out to God and questioning his decision
Matthew 27:46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”)
God the greatest (God is greater than Jesus)
Jesus also said that "my Father is greater than I" (John 14:28) and that "I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God" (John 20:17)
Jesus doesn’t give power – Only God gives power according to Jesus
John 19:11
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
God greater then Jesus
John 14:28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
Jesus praying to God
In the Garden of
Gethsemane, Jesus prayed to the Father. To whom was Jesus praying? To himself? To an alter ego?
Does God suffer from multiple personality disorder? In this prayer, Jesus asked: "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. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one..." (John 17:20-21). Are we to be one in the way that Trinitarians say that the Father and Son are one? That is impossible. So apparently, the oneness that Jesus was talking about was not the oneness that Trinitarians talk about. The only way to explain these scriptural contradictions would be by concluding that the oneness of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is
figurative rather than literal.
God is individual and not 3
The reason for believing that God is an individual person is because we, as humans, are each an individual person, and we are made in the image and likeness of God.
God gives the instructions to Jesus (Jesus not all knowing he has to learn)
John 15:15
15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends,
for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
Jesus inferior to God
1 Cor 15:27-28
For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. When all things are subjected to Him,
then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.
Jesus hungry Matthew 4:4
‘Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2 where for forty days he was tempted[
a] by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.’
God gives authority
John 17:1-4
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, even as
You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. This is eternal life, that they may know You,
the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.
Jesus clearly telling people only one master can be served
Matthew 6:24
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon
