Jesus in the Eyes of Apostle John
Who
Jesus was?
Was
Jesus God-Himself?
Was
Jesus half man and half God?
Was
Jesus a man born by a woman like any other human beings?
After
accepting the fact that we can only be saved if we believe in our
savior Lord Jesus Christ for years, the above questions almost throw
me into an epileptic fit. If we believe Jesus and yet do not know
what and who he was, on what basis we think that we could still have
the eternal-life? Such ambiguity no matter how small it is, has
greatly disturbed my mind. And for the sake of my faith, it has
motivated me to look for an answer from the Bible Book.
Obviously
all words have their designated meanings. The question is, if I
staying within the boundary of the meanings of the word and the
complete context as a whole, without injecting my own ideas and
thinking twisting the intended meaning of the message, will I be able
to derive to what the book had intended to tell me who Jesus was?
Indeed, this is the unique reading and reasoning method I fully
employed in researching and writing this book.
Perhaps,
when you have finished reading chapter eight, it may become apparent
to you that if Jesus was the Almighty God Himself, then Jesus should
not have told us that (1) God had granted him to have life in Him,
(2) God had given him the authority to execute judgment, (3) God
commanded him that he should give eternal life to as many as God had
given him, (4) God had given His Word to him, (5) God had commanded
him to lay down his life, (6) he was a man who told the Jews the
truth which he heard from God.
May
be it is as obvious as a sore thumb when you read that Jesus cried
out and said, “He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him
who sent Me.” (John 12:44) If Jesus called us not to believe in him
but to believe in God who sent him, why should we deny Jesus calling
all the way to the grave?
Logically
when we read Jesus said that he was Jesus Christ whom the only true
God had sent, then we know that the statement meant to tell us Jesus
was not the true God Himself. (John 17:3 And this is eternal life,
that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You
have sent.) Knowing Jesus as he was and knowing the one true God who
sent him will definitely put us onto the right path of living a new
life striving towards the ultimate goal of having the crown jewel of
eternal life. God’s Word is spirit, life and truth. If we can born
again in the spirit of God’s Word, the Almighty God who had granted
Jesus to have life in him will certainly grant us to have life in Him
too, Amen!
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