I just realized something- you believe what others said about Jesus, but you do NOT believe what He said about Himself.
" destroy this temple and I will raise it in 3 days"
" I lay down my life in order to take it up again. no one can take it from me, I have the authority to lay it down and take it up again '.
" the Son of Man has the authority to forgive sins "
if you were to believe these things to be true, then you would have to admit no mere man can truthfully make these claims.
so, either Jesus was a liar, or He was God in the flesh, fully God, fully man.
when the Word became flesh, it DID NOT cease being the Word.
so, you choose to believe in what others said about Jesus, but you deny HIS words.
I have no idea one gets to such a place of self-deception. I do not want to know.
The Christ volunteered to serve His Father, to create, after His Commandment, the world and "ALL Things in it, create His Gospel, come to earth as a man, die and after death reap the promises given Him by the Father. He said Himself:
17 And he said unto him,
Why callest thou me good?
there is none good
but one,
that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
John 10:
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life,
that I might take it again.
Matt. 16:
25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it:
and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
John
10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Matt. 16:
24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If
any man will come after me,
let him deny himself, and take up his cross,
and follow me. (As Jesus did for His Father)
The Jesus of the Bible didn't cheat in His Mission G9. He wasn't a fraud, He didn't take shortcuts, He wasn't pretending to be a man.
He had the same tools all mankind has to resist the devil. He had powers that ALL men of true Faith have access to through the Father.
You don't believe this because much of your understanding comes from religious man, as you have been shown. I don't have anything against anyone on this forum. I simply have been freed from the deception of the "Ministers of Righteousness" we are warned about over and over in the Word of God and am sharing this understanding with others.
You also have the power to die through sin. You also have the power to take your life up again through genuine repentance. This power was given you by the Father. Jesus offered His Life for yours to give you this option. I just hate to see folks belittle Him and His great Love by teaching others He really didn't risk anything. You don't believe He really came in the Flesh? Neither did the Pharisees.
Duet. 30:
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,
that I (The Word of God which became flesh)
have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed
may live:
20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God,
and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he
is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
I don't deny any Word of God. I also don't believe you can use one verse to destroy another.
42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven,
strengthening him.
How is it God needs a creation of His own to strengthen Him? Or maybe, just maybe the Scriptures are true and Jesus, the Word which became Flesh, was a man.