After becoming a Christian for years, it comes to my awareness that there are two main groups of contradictory Bible facts. For example: On one hand, the book of John said that Jesus had clearly told us he was not God. On the other hand, it said that Jesus told us he was God Himself. These conflicting messages had motivated me to research the book of John.
I have spent five years studying the book trying to understand what the author really wanted to tell us who Jesus was. Apparently, the book actually reveals to us that Lord Jesus Christ was not God but he was only God’s son. As a matter of fact, Lord Jesus Christ had personally told us that because he was only a son of man, God had to give him authority over all flesh and authority to execute judgement before he could judge. God had to give Jesus life in God Himself before he could have life. God had to give Jesus His Words before he could know what they were. Then God the most-high sent and commanded Jesus to carry out His work – to give eternal life, the truth, to whoever God gave to him. Besides, Lord Jesus Christ had also clearly told us that he was just a man which means to tell us that he was not God.
Unfortunately, for one reason or another, all the above facts, which tell us that Jesus was not God have been inadvertently ignored by most Christians. The contradiction does not help to raise a red-flag and allows us to question ourselves. For if we think our interpretation that Jesus was God is correct, then logically we should expect the followings to be true:
- The Word who became flesh should have known the Words which God Himself wanted to deliver to us. Our heavenly Father should not need to give those Words to Jesus again. But this was not the case.
- The Word who became flesh should already possess the life and the authority in himself. God should not need to give it to Jesus again. But this was not the case.
- The Word who became flesh should be the most high. He should do what the work he wanted to do as he wished. As such, Jesus should not have to be commanded by another one who apparently was greater than him. Again, this was not the case.
The simple reasoning should have logically revealed to us that Jesus was not God Himself. However, we seem to choose to cast aside and ignore such reasoning.
By researching the Book of John, I believe I have found the human errors which have led us into such wrongful interpretation. We have failed to recognize the figurative language used throughout the book of John and mistreated them as simple statement. Furthermore, by taking up one of the facts and dropping the other to make our final conclusion, we have inadvertently committed a serious mistake of incomplete context interpretation.
I believe I have presented the issues and Bible facts in my book within my best ability. Nevertheless, briefly speaking, we know that the subject matter of chapter one is “the Word”. If we know that the author had not changed the subject matter in verse 1:3 “Through him all things were made …”, then we should be able to realize that it means to tell us that “Through the Word all things were made …” And then, we may be able to see that most probably “the Word” the author talked about was words proceeded from the mouth of God. As such, we may be able to realize that the sentence “the Word was God” is most probably a figurative language and not a simple statement. It means to tell us that the words proceeded from the mouth of God are spiritually like God. God’s words may possess the same complete fullness of the divine nature of God in spirit and in power, but God’s Word is not physically God Himself. Sadly speaking, we have miserably failed to see what “the Word” was, and missed out the other crucial meaning the words mean to tell us.
I sincerely hope that you may find the book helpful to your faith in God. May God bless you abundantly! May all the glory be unto His Name, Amen!
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