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Understanding the True Nature of Jesus’s Divinity

Is Jesus God?

It is a simple question. However, it needs to be explained with more than a simple yes or no.

A strong clue to the answer can be found in the very first line of John:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The “Word” in this verse is Jesus. It is stating that from the very beginning, Jesus was with God and that he also was God. How can this be? How can both of these assertions be true?

We must turn to the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost). One of the better ways to understand the relationship between the Father and the Son is as follows: The Father is the Son, but the Son is not the Father. In other words, Jesus is God, but he is not the Father.

Muscle testing research supports this, as Jesus calibrates at 1000, while God calibrates at Infinity.

The story of the Burning Bush (Exodus 3:1-21) is also quite illuminating in this regard. An angel appears to Moses in a flame of fire in the middle of a bush. But then the narrative shifts to indicate that it is God who is speaking to Moses. The reason this divine figure is described as both an angel and God is that this divine figure is Christ (tests as true). Again, he is God but not the Father.

What this means is that Jesus was an angel before he descended from heaven to be born a human. There is evidence in the Bible to support this.
In Exodus 3:14:

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’
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Later, in John 8:58:

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8:58)
 
Jesus in the above verse is saying that he is the one who said, “I am” to Moses.

Muscle testing also confirms that Jesus was one of the three angels who appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre in Genesis 18.

The idea of Jesus being an angel seems plausible given that angels calibrate at 500 and up, and Jesus calibrates at 1000. God calibrates at Infinity, which further supports the idea that Jesus is the Son but not the Father (or God but not the Father).

Jesus speaking to Moses as God makes even more sense when you consider Exodus 33:20, which states that no one can ever see God. And yet there are people throughout the Old Testament who do see God. How is this possible? It’s possible because they are not seeing God the Father, but God the Son.

This means that whenever God directly speaks to someone in the Old Testament, it is not the Father who is speaking, but the Son. It is Jesus who is speaking. This tests as true. (Strobel, 2007, pp. 216-217)

If this is indeed true, then it seems likely that the depiction of God in the Old Testament as an angry, jealous, vengeful deity is incorrect. For can anyone really believe that Jesus would talk the way that the God of the Old Testament talks? Quite simply, it is impossible.

So, going back to the original question: Is Jesus God? The answer is yes. 
 
 
Reference
Strobel, Lee. In Defense of Jesus. Zondervan, 2007.
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      • ​ ​Why Christianity Succeeded and So Many Other Religions Failed
      • Why Jesus was either divine, delusional, or a conman (and why the last two are unlikely)
      • The Case for the Legitimacy of the Gospels and Why Jesus Was Not a Myth
      • Understanding the True Nature of Jesus's Divinity
      • Is the Old Testament Literally True?
      • How a Little Bit of Karma Could Save the Old Testament
      • Women, Patriarchy, and Slavery: How should Christianity be judged?
      • Is this the Worst Bible Verse?
      • Understanding the Traditional Christian Path
      • Can a Serial Killer Go to Heaven?
      • Holy Christianity vs. Progressive Christianity
      • My Response to a Review of Christianity 2.0
      • Why God Does Not Get Angry
      • Why God Is Not Tyrannical
      • Why You Keep Punishing Yourself and How You Can Finally Stop
      • Why Desire and Pride are Negative Emotions
      • How to Counter the Most Common Rebuke to Christian Arguments
      • The Truth about Homosexuality and the Gay Rights Movement
      • A Harsh Truth: The Primary Purpose of Christianity is Not to Make You Feel Good About Yourself
      • Why the Idea of Penal Substitutionary Atonement is Flawed
      • How to Insulate the Church from Dangerous Political Ideologies
      • Why Christianity and Socialism Will Always Be In Opposition
      • How the Church Should Handle Political Issues
      • The Heart of Atheism
      • Why God Does Not Make His Presence Known in a Way That Is Undeniable
      • Raising Up Job
      • The Worst Decision the U.S. Supreme Court Ever Made in Regard to Religious Liberty
      • The Truth About the Law of Attraction
      • How Hollywood Undermines Christianity
      • The Barbie Fallacy
      • Christianity's Worst Concession
      • How Ignoring the Bible’s Teachings Has Led to the Decline of the United States
      • How to Bring Back Traditional Women
      • Why You Might Not Want to Achieve Massive Worldly Success
      • How to Make Church Services More Interesting
      • How the Bible Disagrees with Environmentalism
      • Does Christian Support for Donald Trump Invalidate Christianity
      • Close But No Cigar: Why Peter Novak's Early Christianity Misses the Mark
      • Did Jesus Really Predict the End Times?
      • Is the Gospel of Thomas sexist?
      • Why Thomas Was Called the Twin
      • Why Most Self-Help is Either Overrated or Counterproductive
      • 3 Amazing Miracles That Demonstrate Why We Can and Should Surrender the World to God
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