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Some Biblical passages seem to indicate that
Christ is God; others seem to imply that He is less
than God.
In an e-mail, Brandon wrote:
>I believe that Jesus is the only way to purge
sins, but as far as his divinity
>is concerned I've never been sold on that point.
I struggle with it. But, I
>appreciate others views, and I tried to get them
to explain it to me in a
>way I'd understand. Finally, that happened, and
I understood but I still
>didn't see it in the Bible. There was as much
evidence there to support it
>either way.
ASAJ responded:
The ambiguity that you speak of was the very thing
that caused me to see Christ's divinity. You CAN
read the Bible and come up with different answers as
to who or what Jesus is. When the evidence allows
one to draw equal and opposite conclusions, the mind
tells us that the issue can be resolved either way.
However, since the mind acknowledges a stalemate in
the decision making process, it is the human
'heart', not the human mind, that allows the
individual to finally decide between the two
choices. The choice that is eventually made is a
reflection of what is found in the heart; the choice
that is made will reflect our bias and prejudices,
and, therefore, will tell us something about
ourselves.
Jesus asks each of us, "Who do YOU say I
am?" He asks us to judge him. We will either
judge him as god or man. If we judge him as a man,
then we are in effect saying that we, as men, are on
his level. We have the potential to live our lives
to his sinless standard. If we judge him as God,
however, we are saying that He is so far above us
that we could never attain His perfection, even
though we strive for it.
We will be judged according to how we judge Christ.
As it is written in Luke 2:34-40, Christ is a sign
to be spoken against so that the hearts of many
minds may be revealed. It is similar to being asked to grade a
grammatically perfect essay and then having our own
error filled essay graded by the same standard; if
we find error in a perfect essay, how much more
error would be found in our own? If we find fault
with Christ, how much fault will be found in us? But
if we declare Jesus to be God, then we ask to be
graded on a curve! It's our only hope to pass.
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