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Jesus Christ IS God…

January 10, 2012 at 7:28 AM 6 comments

He’s NOT a swear word!

My wife and I were returning home from a trip and passed a semi with the message “Jesus Christ is Lord.  Not a swear word” on the side of the trailer in huge lettering.

I couldn’t help but be impressed and it made me think.  He’s not only Lord but He is God.  I know there are plenty of people who disagree with that, but that’s because they do not understand what the Bible says.  They pick and choose and lift out of context, but when Scripture is allowed to interpret Scripture, the only real conclusion one can arrive at is that Jesus claimed on numerous occasions to BE equal TO God, literally making Him God.

In other words, when He said “Before Abraham was, I AM” in John 8:58, the Jews knew what He was saying.  This is why they wanted to kill Him because they knew He was making Himself equal to God.  The fact that Jesus does not immediately try to “correct” Himself says that He either had a death wish or was/is God.

The problem most have is that it is difficult for humanity to wrap their minds around the idea that God can be incarnated into human flesh.  We expect God to roll back the heavens, parting the sky, and riding into our view on a flaming horse backed by millions of angels.  We expect God to be so fearful that we would immediately wish to die to escape His presence (as if dying could do that).

I’m very aware of what Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Islam, and others teach about Jesus.  The problem is that each of these religions/ideologies teach something that is based on something ELSE.  In each of the three cases mentioned above, a person came along and essentially taught that Jesus was NOT God, but at most He was A god.  Islam teaches that He was a messenger of Allah.  That bothers me because He was NOT a messenger of Allah.

It also bothers me that Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons believe that Jesus was merely a TYPE of god (small “g”), but not VERY God.  These people have a very interesting way of trivializing the Bible, placing their own writings above it, though they would deny it.

In each case, these people believe that the Bible has been corrupted by man, yet THEIR particular writings are error-free.  Apparently, God was not strong enough to supersede man’s shortcomings to create and keep His holy Word pure.  He only managed to do that with the specific writings of Jehovah’s Witnesses (New World Translation), Mormons (Book of Mormon), and Islam (Qur’an).

I know, I know.  People will say I’m being critical of these other religions. Yes and no.  I’m holding their beliefs up to QUESTION, not ridicule.  I’m using THEIR rationale to show how weak their own arguments are in the end.

If you read any number of passages in the biblical text, it is very difficult to come away (unless you approach Scripture with a certain frame of reference) from these passages believing that they do not teach that Jesus was/is God.

For instance, Hebrews 1:1-8 says this: 

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

 ²Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

 ³Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

 ⁴Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

 ⁵For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

 ⁶And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

 ⁷And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

 ⁸But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.”

Note that the writer of Hebrews tells us that in “these last days,” God spoke through His Son.  Note verse 3 which tells us that Jesus is “the express image of His Person.”  Folks, the writer is saying that Jesus is a mirror image of God.  What THAT means is that He IS God.

Note verse 8, which has God speaking to God – “Thy Throne, O God, is for ever…”  Psalm 2 does this same thing with God speaking among Himself.

There are so many examples in the Bible of Jesus acting like God, speaking like God and more than implying that He is God, it makes it difficult to ignore.  Yet people continue to ignore it.

Moreover, no other religious leader has ever become a swear word as far as I know.  Only Jesus.  He is the only One who has that “privilege” apparently.  That also tells me something.

Using the precious and holy Name of Jesus as a swear word came from no other place except the pit of hell.  Satan won’t waste his time trying to get people to use “Muhammad,” or “Confucius,” or “Buddha” as swear words.  What’s the point?  These are just men.  They did not come to die on a cross in order that the problem of sin might be settled.  Only Jesus did that and more than one religious ideology downplays or denies that He died on the cross, which is the central theme of the Bible, by the way, going all the way back to Abraham in Genesis, when he was called on to sacrifice his son, Isaac, the son of promise (cf. Genesis 22).

Atheists amaze me because they never see their own faults, though they are so quick to point out any perceived fault of the religionist.  I’ve heard atheists use the Name of Jesus as a swear word in one breath and in the next, they’ll tell you how much they respect people’s religion as long as it remains private.  They’re liars.  If they REALLY respected my relationship with Jesus, they would NOT use His Name as a swear word, or the generic form – God.

Am I going to threaten their lives because of it? Nope.  Am I going to pray that God will kill them?  Nope.  Am I going to ask God to rain down fire and brimstone?  Nope.

I’m going to continue to PRAY for them because they are completely blind.  I will let God work in them should He choose to do so.  It is no skin off my nose if they use His Name as an epithet.  I don’t like it.  It tends to bother me, but that’s as far as it goes.  They are directing their words at God whether they think so or not.  God will deal with it.

Jesus Christ is God.  He is NOT a swear word.  That is the reality I wish existed.  I already know He’s God.  I also know that He is a favorite swear word and sometimes, the speaker will even give Him a middle initial – “H” – if he is REALLY feeling the moment when Jesus’ Name rolls off his tongue as a epithet.

This world, far from evolving into something better, is devolving into something incredibly evil.  Satan’s imprint is seen all over our society and the world.  I guarantee it will become worse?  How do I know?  Because the Bible tells me so.  It’s that simple.

If anyone wants to respond to this, feel free, but know that I will take apart what you say if it is a rebuttal to what I’ve written here, with a fine tooth comb.  I’ve read all the arguments for and against Christ’s deity.  I’m completely unimpressed with the those who argue against His deity.  They sound like children trying to explain physics.  Why THEY think that sound intelligent, the truth of the matter is that they are far from it.  Their convoluted and self-absorbed way of trying to explain away Jesus’ deity shows them for what they are – atheistic in their belief, even if they somehow believe in some type of god.

Oh, by the way, IF I choose to respond at all…

Jesus is God.  The Bible is clear.  He was not “begotten” in the sense that we think of it.  He was appointed or labeled.  Like begets like.  God could not have a “Son” without that Son being the express image of the Father.  That means, in layman’s terms, that any Son God begets is equal to Him in substance and Person.  It can be no other way, sorry if you think so.

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