Why can’t Jesus be God?
Jesus is not God because he can not be the Messiah and God both — either one or the other. To qualify as the Messiah, according to prophecy, he had to be a descendant of King Solomon — Joseph was a descendant, Mary was not. Mary was a Levite. We know this because her cousin Elisabeth and her husband were Levites, and also her father Joachim, who as a priest, was a Levite. She could not have been the daughter of Eli since he “died childless”. The only way Jesus could qualify to be the Messiah was if he were the biological son of Joseph.
Since he was the biological son of Joseph, then Mary wasn’t a virgin when Jesus was born. If Mary wasn’t a virgin when Jesus was born, it couldn’t have been a miraculous birth. If it weren’t a miraculous virgin birth, then Jesus wasn’t born the incarnation of God. Plain and simple.
Another way of looking at it: Christianity says that Jesus was born of a virgin. According to the messianic scriptures, the Messiah had to be a descendant of both David and Solomon. If Jesus had no father then he couldn’t be the Messiah. Christology says that the Messiah will be also God incarnated. Contradiction. Either one or the other has to be false. They can’t both be true.
According to the Jews, Jesus qualifies as neither (Messiah nor God), especially since “God is not a man”. The fact that Jesus is not God causes contradictions in the bible because it has been corrupted over the centuries to force it to agree with the invented doctrines or the Church concerning “the virgin birth“, “the immaculate conception”, “the divinity of Christ”, “the Trinity“, and more. These interpolations, forgeries and corruptions can be easily be proven — comparing scripture with scripture. During the first three centuries the most prevalent belief was “adoptionism“, which is the belief that Jesus was the flesh and blood son of Joseph, a creation of God and not “God incarnate”.
Jesus is not God: so how does that affect Christianity as we know it?
- Because Jesus is not God: this means that the Bible is not inerrant. Here’s an example of a serious corruption. The phrase where God spoke directly to Jesus at his baptism at age 30:
Thou art my son this day (literally today) have I begotten thee
This passage is not found in any of the gospels. Yet it is found in Acts, Hebrews and Psalms. The reason? Because it contradicts the virgin birth. If he became a son at his baptism, then the title “son” is not literal, but metaphorical. He was not born God of a miraculous birth. He became God’s son (as we all are) at his baptism!
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Because Jesus is not God: this means that many Christian doctrines actually contradict teachings of Jesus.
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Because Jesus is not God: this means he was merely a man, created by God, sent by God, with a special relationship to God, as many other prophets and priests were, with a message to lead men back to the true ways of God — this is what the early Christians believed, according to Matthew’s Gospel of the Hebrews.
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Because Jesus is not God: this means he was born just like all other men, in that he pre-existed, meaning that reincarnation is a reality for everyone — not a special case of a man being God incarnated into the flesh of a human body.
This means that we also pre-existed and most of us will return here. This was an accepted belief by the majority of Christianity until the fourth or fifth centuries!
- Because Jesus is not God: this means he is not the creator of the world. I know there are some verses in the bible that say that he did, but there are many interpolations in the bible. For example, the following is spurious and completely false:
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: (Eph 3:9)
should read:
which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things.
- Because Jesus is not God: this means the church fathers had to have invented some incredibly huge lies to deceive millions if not billions of people all over the world throughout the last 20 centuries or so. This has to be one of the reasons there are so many contradictions and inconsistencies in the bible.
But there shall arise after you, men of perverse minds who shall through ignorance or through craft, suppress many things which I have spoken unto you, and lay to me things which I never taught, sowing tares among the good wheat which I have given you to sow in the world. (Gospel of the Nazarenes 44:7)
the enemies of truth and righteousness shall rule in my Name, and set up a kingdom of this world, and oppress the peoples, and cause the enemy to blaspheme, putting for my doctrines the opinions of men, and teaching in my Name that which I have not taught, and darkening much that I have taught by their traditions. (Gospel of the Nazarenes 95:4)
The declarations here are so incredibly huge that it is almost unbelievable to be true. However, so many Christians have heard just the opposite so many times that they believe it and would not even think of questioning it. After all, it’s what the Church teaches and “the Church could never be wrong”.
As Hitler said:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
And as Jesus said:
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many (Mat 24:11)
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