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7. The Bible says that the disciples did not believe
Jesus was God.
The Acts of the Apostles in the Bible details the
activity of the disciples over a period of thirty years after Jesus, may the
mercy and blessings of God be upon him, was raised to heaven. Throughout this
period, they never referred to Jesus as God. For instance Peter stood up with
the eleven disciples and addressed a crowd saying:
Acts 2:22 “Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of
Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs,
which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.”
For Peter, Jesus was a servant of God (confirmed
in Matthew 12:18):
Acts 3:13 “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God
of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.”
Acts 3:26 “God raised up his servant...”
When faced by opposition from the authorities, Peter
said:
Acts 5:29-30 “We must obey God rather than men! The God
of our fathers raised Jesus...”
The disciples prayed to God just as they were commanded
by Jesus in Luke 11:2, and considered Jesus to be God’s servant,
Acts 4:24 “...they raised their voices together in
prayer to God. ‘Sovereign Lord,’ they said, ‘you made the heaven and the earth
and the sea, and everything in them.’”
Acts 4:27 “...your holy servant Jesus, whom you
anointed.”
Acts 4:30 “…of Your holy servant Jesus.”
This is exactly what the Quran states of Jesus:
Quran 19: 30 “…I am indeed a servant of God.”
8. The Bible says that Jesus was God’s servant, chosen
one, and beloved.
Matt. 12:18 “Behold, My servant, whom I have chosen, in
whom My soul is well pleased.”
Since Jesus is God’s servant, Jesus can not be God.
9. The Bible says that Jesus could not Do
Anything by Himself.
John 5:19 “The son can do nothing by himself; he can
only do what he sees his Father doing.”
John 5:30 “I can of mine own self do nothing.”
Jesus did not consider himself equal with God, rather he
denied doing anything by himself.
10. The Bible says that God performed miracles through
Jesus & Jesus was limited in what he could do.
Matt. 9:8 “But when the crowds saw this, they were
awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.”
Acts 2:22 “a man attested to you by God with miracles and
wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst.”
Acts 10:38 “…he went about doing good and healing all
who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
If Christ was God, the Bible would simply say that Jesus
did the miracles himself without making reference to God. The fact that it was
God supplying the power for the miracles shows that God is greater than Jesus.
Also, Jesus was limited in performing miracles. One
time when Jesus tried to heal a blind man, the man was not healed after the
first attempt, and Jesus had to try a second time (Mark 8:22-26). Once a woman
was healed of her incurable bleeding. The woman came up behind him and touched
his cloak, and she was immediately healed. But Jesus had no idea who touched
him:
Mark 5:30 “At once Jesus realized that power had gone
out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched my
clothes?’”
Mark 6:5 “He could not do any miracles there, except lay
his hands on a few sick people and heal them.”
Quite obviously, someone with such limitations can not
be God. The power of miracles was not within Jesus.
11. The Bible says that at times of weakness angels
strengthened Jesus; God ,however, does not need to be strengthened.
Luke 22:43 “An angel from heaven appeared to him and
strengthened him [in the garden of Gethsemane].”
Mk. 1:13 “Then the devil left him; and behold, angels
came and began to minister to Him.”
Mark 1:13 “And he was in the wilderness forty days being
tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts, and the angels were
ministering to him.”
Men need to be strengthened; God does not because God is
All-Powerful. If Jesus had to be strengthened, he must not be God.
12. The Bible says that Jesus wanted God’s will to
be done, not his own.
Luke 22:42: “not my will but Yours be done.”
John 5:30 “I do not seek my own will, but the will of
Him who sent me.”
John 6:38 “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine
own will, but the will of Him that sent me.”
Are some members of the coequal Trinity subservient, and
less than equal, to other members? Even though they have different wills (“I
do not seek my own will”), do they obey without question the others’ commands (“the
will of Him who sent me”)? Jesus admits to subordinating his own distinct
will, yet according to the Trinitarian doctrine they should all have the same
will. Should one of the triune partners have to forgo his own will in favor of
the will of another member of the Trinity? Should not they all have the exact
same will?
13. The Bible says Jesus regarded God’s testimony as
separate from his own.
Jesus regarded himself and God as two, not “one.”
John 8:17 and 18: “I am one who testifies for myself; my
other witness is the Father.”
John 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in
God; trust also in me.”
If Jesus was God, He would have not have regarded God’s
testimony as separate from his own.
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