Let us ask the following about the man-God Jesus. To say that God became truly a human being invites a number of questions. What about the salvation of people before Jesus? Jesus’ death brings neither atonement from sin, nor is it in any way a fulfillment of biblical prophecy.Ĭhristians claim that in the birth of Jesus, there occurred the miracle of the incarnation of God in the form of a human being. There is no truth to the Christian belief that Jesus died for our sins and salvation is only through Jesus. There has never been a need for the so-called inter cessionary role Jesus plays in attaining atonement. This is true at all times and in all places. Look to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth for I am God, and there is none else.’ (Isaiah 45:21-22, Jonah 3:5-10)īiblically, people can receive forgiveness of sins through sincere repentance sought directly from God. ‘And there is no God else beside Me a just God and a Savior there is none beside Me. Indeed, the offer to humble oneself before God and be saved is made to all humankind.
When a believer sins, he may come before God in sincere repentance to receive forgiveness.
God forgave sin before Jesus’ appearance, and He continues to forgive without any assistance. ‘And the Lord said: ‘I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters for I know their pains.’ (Exodus 3:7) In contrast, God does not need to be tempted and suffer in order to be able to understand and forgive man’s sins, for He is the all knowing Creator of man. To a christian, God had to take human form to understand temptation and human suffering, but the concept is not based on any clear words of Jesus. So, consistent with other verses, Jesus was merely saying that he is God’s servant. They called Barnabas the Roman god Zeus, and Paul the Roman god Hermes.įurthermore, the New Testament Greek word translated as ‘son’ are ‘pias’ and ‘paida’ which mean ‘servant,’ or ‘son in the sense of servant.’ These are translated to ‘son’ in reference to Jesus and ‘servant’ in reference to all others in some translations of the Bible. This can be seen in Acts 14: 11-13, where we read that when Paul and Barnabas preached in a city of Turkey, pagans claimed they were gods incarnate. In their heritage, ‘son of God’ signified an incarnation of a god or someone born of a physical union between male and female gods. Therefore, it is obvious the expression ‘son of God’ merely meant ‘Servant of God’ one who, because of faithful service, was close and dear to God as a son is to his father.Ĭhristians who came from a Greek or Roman background, later misused this term.
The word ‘son’ cannot be accepted literally because in the Bible, God apparently addresses many of his chosen servants as ‘son’ and ‘sons.’ The Hebrews believed God is One, and had neither wife nor children in any literal sense. 90 Verses That Say: Jesus is Not God Nor the Literal Son of GodĪll four Gospels record Jesus as saying, “Blessed are the peace-makers they will be called sons of God.”
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