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!
