The Question Question 14: Wasn’t the word “god” or “TONTHEOS” also used to refer to others, as well as in II Corinthians 4:4 “(and the Devil is) the god of this world” and in Exodus 7:1 “See, I have made thee (Moses) a god to Pharaoh”? The Short Answer Calling someone “god” in Scripture does…
The Question Question 13: Christians claim that Jesus was God as they quote in John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. This is John speaking and not Jesus. Also, the Greek word for the first occurrence of God is HOTHEOS which means “the…
The Question Question 12: If belief in the Trinity was such a necessary condition for being a Christian, why didn’t Jesus teach and emphasise it to the Christians during his time? How were those followers of Jesus considered Christians without ever hearing the term Trinity? Had the Trinity been the spinal cord of Christianity, Jesus…
The Question Question 11: Why do Christians say that God is three-in-one and one in three when Jesus says in Mark 12:29, The Lord our God is one Lord, in as many places as yet in the Bible? The Short Answer Christians embrace the Three-in-One Trinity doctrine largely due to inherited church traditions, historical creeds,…
The Question Question 10: If Jesus was God, why did he tell the man who called him “good master” not to call him “good” because, accordingly, there is none good but his God in Heaven alone? The Short Answer What Jesus was doing was revealing the source of all goodness, which is His God and…
The Question Question 9: Christians say that: “The Father (F) is God, the Son (S) is God, and the Holy Ghost (H) is God, but the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost is not the Father”. In simple arithmetic terms, therefore, if F = G,…
The Question Question 8: If God is three and one at the same time, who was the God in Heaven within three days between the claimed crucifixion and the claimed resurrection? The Short Answer First of all, I think you have Modalism mixed up with the Trinity in this question. What I believe you are…
The Question Question 7. If God is one and three at a time, then who was the God in heaven when Jesus was on earth? Wouldn’t this contradict his many references to a God in Heaven that sent him? The Short Answer The theological view that gives this question legitimacy is modalism. And yes, modalism…
The Question Question 6. If God is one and three simultaneously, then none of the three could be the complete God. Granting that such was the case, then when Jesus was on earth, he wasn’t a complete God, nor was the “Father in Heaven” a whole God. Doesn’t that contradict what Jesus always said about…
The Question Question 5. Is God three-in-one and one in three simultaneously or one at a time? The Short Answer There are dilemmas and confusion that have arisen from the idea that God is more than one person. They include trinitarianism, modalism, and other such ideas. But according to Scripture, God is one, as in…
The Question Christians claim that Jesus acknowledged that he and God were one in the sense of nature when he says in John 10:30, “My Father and I are one”. Later on in John 17:21-23, Jesus refers to his followers and Himself and God as one in five places. So why did they give the…
The Question Question 3: Christians say that Jesus was God because he was called Son of God, Son of Man, Messiah, and “saviour”. Ezekiel was addressed in the Bible as the Son of Man. Jesus spoke of “the peace makers” as Sons of God. Any person who followed the Will and Plan of God was…
The Question Question 2 of 60: Christians assert that Jesus claimed to be God when they quote him in John 14:9: “He that has seen me has seen the Father”. Didn’t Jesus clearly say that people have never seen God? As it says in John 5:37: “And the father himself, which has sent me, has…
The Question Question 1 of 60: To be son is to be less than Divine, and to be Divine is to be no one’s son. How could Jesus have the attributes of sonship and divinity altogether? The Short Answer Following the context of your question, I take it that you use the word “Divine” to…
According to most Christians, Jesus was God incarnate, full man and full God. Can the finite and the infinite be one? To be “full God” means freedom from finite forms and from helplessness, and to be “full man” means the absence of divinity. My Response: Was Jesus a full man or fully man? Yes! Even…