Saturday, July 11, 2020

Did Jesus Claim to be God?

Mark 14:61-64 But He kept silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” Jesus said, “I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.” Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “What further need do we have of witnesses? “You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death. Jesus here uses the title God uses in Exodus when Moses asked God whom he should say sent him to Egypt to get Pharaoh to free the Israelites. God replied, "I Am that I Am" telling Moses to say "I Am" had sent him. So here, and in other places in the Bible, Jesus claim to be "I Am" is His claim to be God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses. Jesus also reverts back to a prophecy of Daniel "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. Daniel 7:13-14 KJV And Jesus further claims He will be seated at God's right hand (sharing His authority and glory and power). The high priest recognizes that Jesus is claiming divinity for he tears his robes as he says "You have heard the blasphemy.". It is Jesus' claim to be God the Son, that has Him sentenced to die. Either He was a lunatic, a liar, or He was and is the Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity.

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