Yep. Still waiting...
So simple for you to reject the real meaning of scripture.
Address the scriptures and the argument. Responses like these are just more running away.
If you have a son, is that son you? Is it EVER the case that the son is the father? No. Dumb position to take - especially when so many scriptures explicitly differentiate and subordinate the Son to God. Scriptures that you keep ignoring and running away from.
Son's have the same nature as their father. Even the unbelieving Jews understand the Lord's claim to be God, but you cannot.
Joh 5:18 KJV Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Read that verse in context. Those Jews didn't understand what they were saying and got rebuked. You would rather take their ill conceived position than that of Christ who rebuked them.
John 10:31-36 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?” 33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’[d]? 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside— 36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?
Jesus turns around their false accusation. First he points out that the scriptures call all of them "gods" - so even if he did make such an assertion, it would be inline with the scriptures. Secondly, he makes clear what his actual claim is ("I am God's Son") and asks why they consider that blasphemy?
Indeed, Jesus never asserted of himself that he was God, but only ever God's Son.
Wow... a scripture quote... great job.
Just one more scripture that makes it clear that Jesus is the servant of God, not God himself. I know, there's so many of them that adding one more doesn't have much of a shock factor - but it's these plethora of scriptures that you are up against.
Are you like keypurr thinking that Jesus is a "photocopy of God"? The image of God means that He is God in the flesh. Sad that you cannot accept the truth.
An image of someone/something is never the person/thing in question. Come now, this is basic stuff.
Hence the scriptures say that we were made in the image of God. Tell me, what do you think that means? Was Adam God?
I'm sure that passage went right over your head. If we take the idea that Jesus was God in the flesh in the most literal sense, John 5:37-38 wouldn't make sense. They saw and heard Jesus, so if Jesus = God, then they saw and heard God. But Jesus isn't literally God, so the passage isn't in contradiction with Jesus' identity.
It is obvious that Moses is not literally God, just as it is obvious that Jesus is literally God.
And that's why Jesus declared himself to be God and laid out the doctrine of the Trinity for us. Oh, wait, no he didn't. He claimed to be the Son of God, sent by God. He claimed the Father was Greater. He said all of his authority and power were given to him. He said he would be at God's right hand. etc.
No, it is abundantly clear that Jesus didn't claim to be God - nor did the disciples nor Paul claim that Jesus was God. They considered him a servant of God.
Go ahead and provide proof of CORRUPTIONS in the KJB. You cannot, but you'll try.
A different discussion, and one that doesn't require my contributions. There is an abundance of academic material on the subject. At any rate, using the KJV won't help you in this discussion.
That you cannot understand the two natures that Christ possesses is a shame on you.
Shame on you for ignoring the abundance of scripture that so clearly differentiates Jesus from God.
The same John 1 that you play games with makes it clear the the Lord Jesus Christ is the CREATOR OF ALL THINGS.
Joh 1:1-3 KJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) The same was in the beginning with God. (3) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
No doubt that you have a silly explanation for that too.
There are some different ways to approach it. One that was popular with the Church Fathers was to identify Christ as the Wisdom in the OT.
When I read this passage I tend to view the Logos here as being God's plan. Jesus being described as the Word made flesh = the plan being put into action and made reality.
At any rate, it is a moot point before the overwhelming testimony of the scriptures which make it abundantly clear that he is not literally God himself.