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How Could Jesus Be God?
Dear Brother Ron
How could Jesus be God? Jesus was born to Mary as a human baby. It is
totally illogical to say he was God. How this could be believed?
AzAn
Dear AzAn
Jesus was not God. He never said He was. On many occasions, He referred to
His Father as a separate entity from Himself. He did, however, say that He
was one with His Father. This is entirely logical.
Consider this: Mary was told by her cousin Elizabeth that her baby was going
to be somebody special. She had a vision in which an angel told her that her
son was going to be the Messiah and the Son of God. At His birth, nobility
came from foreign lands to honor His arrival. Mary and Joseph had to flee to
Egypt to escape the assassination ordered by King Herrod. Given all of these
facts, do you think Jesus was raised just like every other boy in Israel?
Hardly.
I think Mary and Joseph told Jesus from the moment He could understand
language (and probably before) how special He was. Imagine being raised from
birth to believe you are the holy Son of the living God. Imagine being
raised to believe you are the person your country has waited for for
hundreds of years. Would you not devote every waking moment to becoming the
person you believed you were destined to be?
The result would be that you would feel a total unity with God. You would
have total faith in God and would have total access to the power of the Holy
Spirit within you. That faith and that unity would allow you to do
incredible things. Jesus told us this on several occasions.
My big complaint with most religious organizations is they have tried to
place themselves between man and God. They have created dogma to convince
people that the only way to get to God is through the church. This is not
what Jesus preached. He told us the kingdom of God is within us. He told us
that, if we had total faith in God, we could do everything He did and more.
Unfortunately, this message got watered down and perverted over the years.
Jesus was not god but He was one with God. We can also be one with God. All
we have to do is look for His Spirit within us and have total confidence in
that Spirit just like Jesus told us to do.
Best always
Brother Ron
