📘 ❞ Is Jesus God The Bible says No ❝ كتاب ــ شبير علي اصدار 1998

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Christians and Muslims both believe in Jesus, love him,
and honor him. They are, however, divided over the
question of his divinity. Fortunately, this difference can be
resolved if we refer the question to both the Bible and the
Qur'an, because, both the Bible and the Qur'an teach that
Jesus is not God.
It is clear enough to everyone that the Qur'an denies the
divinity of Jesus, so we do not need to spend much time
explaining that. On the other hand, many people
misunderstand the Bible; they feel that the beliefin Jesus
as God is so widespread that it must have come from the
Bible. In this and the next six messages, we will show
quite conclusively that the Bible does not teach that. The
Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is not God. In the Bible
God is always someone other than Jesus.
Some will say that something Jesus said or something he
did while on the earth proves that he Is God. We will
show that the disciples never came to the conclusion that
Jesus is God. And these are people who lived and walked

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with Jesus and thus knew first hand what he said and did.
Furthermore, we are told in the Acts ofthe Apostles in the
Bible that the Holy Spirit was guiding the disciples. If
Jesus is God, surely they should know it. But they did not.
They kept worshipping the one true God who was
worshipped by Abraham, Moses and Jesus (see Actsch. 3,
v.13).
All of the writers ofthe Bible believed that God was not
Jesus. The idea that Jesus is God did not become part of
Christian belief until after the Bible was written, and took
many centuries to become part ofthe faith ofChristians.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke, authors of the first three
Gospels, believed that Jesus was not God (see Mark 10:18;
Matthew 19:17 and Luke 18:19). They believed that he
was the son of God in the sense of a righteous person.
Many others too, are similarly called sons of God
(Matthew ch-23, vv. 1,9).
Paul, believed to be the author ofsome thirteen or fourteen
letters in the Bible, also believed that Jesus is not God.
For Paul, God first created Jesus, then used Jesus as the
agent by which to create the rest of creation (see
Colossians ch. 1, v. 15 and I Corinthians ch. 8, v. 6).
Similar ideas are found in the letter to the Hebrews, and
also in the Gospel and Letters of John composed some
seventy years after Jesus. In all of these writings,

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This book affirms from the Bible that Jesus Christ is not God but a human.