Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: vm0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent Paul Mulhern) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Questions on who Jesus is (was "Missed point") Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 91 08:19:15 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 21 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu >I find it very irritating when someone arogantly claims "Whoever >says that the Bible does not establish the divinity of Jesus has not >been reading the Bible." I read the Bible, and this verse says not that >Jesus was God, on the contrary it ways the Word was God. "Ah but," I >hear all my trinitarian friends saying, "it says in verse 14 that Jesus >is the word." Again, when I read the Bible it says "and the word became >flesh and dwelt amongst us". Now it is extremeely clear from the >context that the flesh in this verse refers to the Lord Jesus Christ, >and so it says that at his birth the Word became flesh. It does not say >that Jesus Christ and the Word were the same thing. Jesus said, "I and the Father are One." On more than one occasion, the people He was talking to were convinced enough that HE HIMSELF WAS CLAIMING TO BE GOD that they tried to kill Him then & there. You'd think He might have cleared it all up by saying, I'm sorry...that's not what I meant. I'm just a man, but PLEASE understand that God wants me to tell you such and such..." Nope. He called Himself "I AM"... Jesus is Lord Vince Mulhern