Catholics and many other sects of Christianity believe Jesus is the son of God, coequal to God, God became man, the Messiah, and a prophet all in one. Besides being blasphemous this is confusing.Wouldn’t it make more sense that Jesus was only the awaited messiah, a prophet, a servant of God who was a man?There are many verses in the New Testament to prove this: ”And the crowds said, ‘This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee.’” Matthew 21:11 RSV “And he said to them, ‘What things?’ And they said to him, ‘Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,’” Luke 24:19 RSV The below two verses state God is separate from his servant Jesus:“The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus” Acts 3:13 RSV“When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.” Acts 3:26 NIV “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.” Luke 2:52 KJV“For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” 1 Timothy 2:5 RSVJesus healed the paralysed man, “When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man.” Matthew 9:8 NIV in the first century C.E. there were many Christianities, with many different views of God and Jesus. Eventually the Roman church, started by Paul, managed to convert, buy out, or kill off all other versions. The Unitarians, the Universalists, the Marcionites, and all the others were mostly killed off, and the world was left with Pauline Trinitarianism, which had and has nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings of Jesus. Renowned Roman Catholic bible scholar Raymond E. Brown states: “Jesus is never called God in the Synoptic Gospels, and a passage like Mark 10:18 would seem to preclude the possibility that Jesus used the title of himself. Even the fourth Gospel never portrays Jesus as saying specifically that he is God. The sermons which Acts attributes to the beginning of the Christian mission do not speak of Jesus as God. Thus, there is no reasons to think that Jesus was called God in the earliest layers of the New Testament tradition.” Renowned Roman Catholic bible scholar Joseph Pohle states : “Some modern writers hold that even the Didache, or 'Teaching of the Twelve Apostles,' the oldest literary monument of Christian antiquity outside of the New Testament canon, must be the work of an Ebionitic or Monarchianistic writer, because it contains no formal profession of faith in the Divinity of Jesus Christ and the Atonement.” An Israeli soldier confesses his sins and converts to Islam with Muhammad Ali #dawateislamiVIDEO Muhammad Ali explains to three stubborn Christians why the Bible is unreliable #dawateislamiVIDEO The miracle of mosquitoes in the Quran // WHAT DOES SCIENCE SAY? VIDEO Qur’an Miracles You Will Hear for First Time! - Famous Translator Explains! -Towards Eternity VIDEO
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