Is Jesus God?

Millions of Christians still believe that Jesus is/was God despite the fact that there is absolutely no proof of this. Jesus never said that he was God nor even inferred this. This idea is perpetuated by religious well-meaning people who mostly unintentionally use verses out of context and misinterpret passages of the bible to prove their point: that Jesus was “THEE Son of God”, or the second person in an imaginary triune “godhead”.

Jesus was the son of a human being, not God.

Jesus declared 81 times in the gospels to be the “son of man”. Why in the world would he refer to himself as that if he is actually God? All the people already believed him to be the biological son of Joseph, so why would he continue to reinforce that idea? Answering my own question, he knew that they would try make him into a god. The word translated for “man” literally means “human being”. He was the son of a human being, not of God. He was the son of God only in a metaphorical sense, not a physical, literal sense.

Jesus referred to himself as the “son of God” five times in the gospels (in John only) and others referred to him 24 times as the “son of God”. Being the son of God makes no one God. In fact, it says in John 1:12 that all who received him would be sons of God. So if being a son of God means that one is God, then there have been literally millions of God on the face of the Earth.

When the Jews accused him of blasphemy for saying that he was the son of God, he replied,

Joh 10:34  Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

Joh 10:35  If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

Joh 10:36  Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

What Jesus was actually saying was that just saying that one was a son of God is not blasphemy. But this in no way even infers that he was God. If the Jews were saying that he was claiming to be God, it was a false accusation.

Furthermore, Jesus declared “my Father is greater than I”. How could God be greater than him if he is God? This is a contradiction.

If the Messiah was capable of sin, he couldn’t possibly be God.

“If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him” it says in the prophecy about Jesus, the Messiah:

2Sa 7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

In this prophecy God assumes that the messiah (God Himself?) is capable of commiting sin! How is it that God warns that the Messiah would be chastised for iniquity and then God Himself, who hates sin, comes as the Messiah?

If Jesus was God then he didn’t have any children.

If Isaiah 53 is actually a prophecy about the Messiah, then he will see his children. Supposedly, Jesus, being God, did not get married or have sex or even have children — “it’s not in the bible”, Christians say.

Isa 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Mary Magdalene was known as Jesus’ companion whom the disciples believed he loved more than them and is said he kissed her often. Would God have a companion that he kissed often?

Also, since Jesus died young, how is it that the days be “prolonged” (Isa 53:10) of someone who is supposed to be God? God is eternal.

According to the Gospel of the Nazarenes, before his public ministry began he was married to a woman named Miriam for 7 years until she died. There is no record that he had children with her… but it is possible.

6:13 When He was eighteen years old, Yeshua was married to Miriam, a virgin of the tribe of Judah with whom He lived seven years.

How can others divide anything with God?

53:12 “Therefore, I will divide a portion to him with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the mighty.”

Mary was NOT caused to conceive by the “holy ghost”

2Sa 7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son.

Jesus was not the “incarnation” of God

Mary was not empregnated by the “holy ghost”, but by the seed of Joseph who was empowered by the “Holy Spirit”. Jesus was not the “incarnation” of God.

2:12 Joseph, now awake, did as the angel directed him, and went in to Mary his espoused bride. In her womb she conceived the Holy One.

8:8 And Yeshua was beginning his thirtieth year, being by physical body indeed the Son of Joseph and Mary; but by the spirit, the Messiah, the Son of God, the Father and Mother Eternal, as was declared by the spirit of holiness with power.

10:8 “We have found Him, of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write. He is Yeshua of Nazareth the son of Joseph and Mary.

95:2 …led forth the twelve with Mary Magdalene, and Joseph his father and Mary his mother, and the other holy women as far as Bethany… (Gospel of the Nazarenes)

The early Jewish Christian church did not accept the fable of the “virgin birth” or that Jesus was the “incarnation of God” invented by the roman church.

Jesus learned to be obedient through suffering.

If Jesus were God, then he would have nothing at all to learn — God knows everything. Let alone, he would not have had to learn to be obedient since God ONLY is good and holy.

Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

Mar 10:17 …Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

Mar 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

If Jesus were God, he would not have become indignant at the fact that a man called him good. Jesus did not consider himself good, and this was not merely an expression of humility. Only God is good.

Only God is holy and God is a spirit, therefore the Holy Spirit is God Himself not a third person in a triune godhead. And Jesus was not the second person or God the Son of the “Holy Trinity” since his earthly Father was Joseph, not the “holy ghost”.

Was Jesus equal to God? Was Jesus a literal physical son of God? Was Jesus without sin? Was Jesus always unmarried without children? Was Mary caused to conceive by the “holy ghost”? Was Jesus the incarnation of God? Was Jesus the second person of the so-called “Trinity”? Was Jesus God? All the evidence leads to one answer: no.

I’m not at all saying that everything the we are told in the bible is not true. What I am saying is that it is obvious that there were some men who added things to our bible and took out some things that should have been left there. This is especially true about Jesus, a son of man, being made into “God the son”.