While some biblical texts portray Jesus as equal to his father Yahweh through the Trinity doctrine, other ones, portray him not only lower and subordinate to his father, but also lower than the angels. I will refer only to some of them, because there are hundreds of such paradigms in the entire Bible.
In John 5:19 , “The Son can do nothing of himself“, the author disclaimed the attribute of omnipotence, because an omnipotent Being needs no aid from anybody. In Matthew 24:28, we read of another proof of his complete ignorance of the world. “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather. 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken“. Does the moon have its own light? The stars will fall where in the sky or on earth? What are these powers of the Heaven, rather than the 7 planets and the constellations (The Hosts of Heaven) that were considered as deities by the Israelites?
When he acknowledged his ignorance of the day of judgment, which must be presumed to be the most important event in the world’s history, he disclaimed again the attribute of omniscience, “Of that day and hour knoweth no man, neither the Son, but the Father only” (Matt. 24:36), and in John 5:30 & 5:19 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me“, hence, he accepted his entire helplessness, dependence and subordination of his supposed Father! Of which then “Trinity” and “of the same substance” are we talking about?
In John 17:3, we read: Jesus said unto her, “Touch Me not, for I am not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say unto them, ‘I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God“, hence, how a god has also a god since they are equal and of the same substance? Didn’t he urge his disciples to pray, not to him, but to the Father? Matthew. 6:6 “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly”.
In Matthew 11:11, we read: “Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist; notwithstanding, he that is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he”. Here, he even acknowledged John the Baptist to be greater than himself. His disciples never speak of him as the God Christ Jesus, but as “the man Christ Jesus.” 1 Timothy 2:5 “Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God”, Acts 2:23 “By that man whom he (the Father) hath ordained“, Acts 17:3. Does a god ordain another god?
Paul in 1 Corinthians 4:8, declared that “unto us there is but one God, the Father.” Now, it is plain to common sense, that if there is but one God, and that God is comprehended in the Father, then Christ is entirely excluded from the Godhead. This also proves the posterior Jesus’ deification by the RCC since the Trinity dogma was promulgated by Justin Martyr in the second century and finally canonized in the 4rth century, and par consequence it was unknown to Jesus, Paul and to the other disciples.
If John’s declaration be true, that “no man hath seen God at any time” (John 4:12), it fragrantly contradicts with the Old Testament in which god has been seen by many personages and simple people who conversed face to face with him “like friends do“, then an important question arises, “how could Christ be God, as he was seen by thousands of men, and seen hundreds of times“? Some attempt to justify this paradox by arguing that he got a human body, others in some apocryphal that he became god after his resurrection, others that he existed the Genesis itself, some others (The Secret Gospel of Peter), together with Irenaeus and the Quran, that he was NEVER crucified, nor resurrected, but lived to old ages, hence he never became a god and everything was a fabricated story as also affirmed by pope Leo X! And all this mess of contradictions you call evidences of divinity?
More than fifty texts have been found which declare, literally or by implication, that God the Father has no equal, which effectually deny or exclude the divine equality of the Son. “To whom will ye liken me, or shall I be equal with, saith the holy One” (Isaiah 11:25). His supposed father is described in several instances, as standing above his supposed son, as “the God of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 3:2). It isn’t actually a strange concept in Christianity that of “The god of a god” which is a pagan dogma? It is accepted in the scriptures as “henotheism” and attested by the Apostles too! Besides, many texts prove Christ to be a mere tool, or an agent, an image, a servant, or representative of God, like, “the image of God” in Hebrews 1:3, Christ, the appointed of God in Hebrews 3:1, Christ “the servant of God” in Matthew 12:18, etc! There are more than three hundred texts which declare literally or by implication, Christ’s subordination to and dependence on the Father, as, “I can do nothing of myself;” “Not mine, but his that sent me;” “I came to do the will of him that sent me” (John 4:34); “I seek the will of my Father” etc, disregarding of course the Nag Hammadi Gospels in which Jesus himself denied of being god’s son and in Josephus’ “Antiquities” in which he is named as “hakim” (a sage) and not god’s son.
Also, at 1Enoch 75.3 we read that only Yahweh is “the Lord of eternal glory” who has placed the angel Uriel “over all the heavenly luminaries and next to him there are only four angels, Enoch sees the Lord of Spirits surrounded by four angelic figures, the archangels Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Phanuel, whose roles are explicitly stated at 1 Enoch 40.1-10. “And I heard the voices of those four figures uttering praise before the Lord of Glory”. No Messiah, neither his son next to him, but ANGELS and according to the original Septuagint, Deuteronomy 33:2-3, “at his right hand his own Asherah”! Also at Hebrews 2:9, we read that Jesus was lower than the angels… “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone”.
So, was he “promoted” as God’s son due to his “crucifixion” as a prize?
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