I will start at the beginning.
Adam was a man like us and God tells us in the Bible that he walked and talked with
Adam in the garden of Eden.
How?
As a human (Jesus Christ) of course.
Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the
day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
How could God in his glorious self reveal himself to a human especially when he says no human may see me and live.
Exodus 33:20
But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.
Does this mean God contradict himself by saying that.
No, God is truthful when he says this as we know that as humans we cannot see God
in his full glory and live but if God chose to reveal himself to us in our own
form then we can see him and live, this is one of God's chosen personality of
triune nature.
In Isaiah 6:1-7 we read
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory."
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."
Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is
taken away and your sin atoned for."
Muslims and Jehovah Witnesses often have objection how can Jesus be 100% God and 100% Human?
Well he is 100% God and 100% Human, not 50% of each.
Jesus has a 100% divine nature not 50% and 100% Human nature.
He never lost his divinity and we know that he forgave sins of people which only God can do and he also continue to exist as
God, he healed many people and raised people from the dead..
In Philippian 2:5-11 we read:
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider it robbery to
be equal with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a
servant, being made in the
likeness of men. And being
found in human form, he humbled
himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Unbelievers ask how come Jesus did not know about his second return if he was fully God and since he doesn't know he cannot be God?
Well we know that Jesus was made a little lower then angels for a while since he
came to earth he has certain limitations of before his resurrection to glory.
Heb 2:9
But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
As a man Jesus had limitations of Man as we see in Luke 2:52
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
When God comes to our time and space he had to take the limitations of a human person but that did not mean he is no more God.
Jesus does not deny that he is not God by saying he does not know the time of his return,
this was a confirmation of him being 100% human nature alongside divine nature.
As can be seen in John:
John 21:17
He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?"
Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you."
As you can see from above that Jesus knows everything
after the resurrection as his limitations are no more.
When people prayed to him and called him Lord, he did not say don't pray to me or don't call me
God as I am not God.
John 20:28
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
Matt 2:11
They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him.
Matt 14:32-33
When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased. Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, "You are truly the Son of God!"
Matt 28:9-10
As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.
Then Jesus said to them, "Don't be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me."
Let's look at what else the Bible says on this:
Col 2:9
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:10:
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.
John 1:14
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Now we can clearly see that Jesus was God who became flesh to come on earth to redeem
mankind, humans reject him in their deceitfulness and will suffer as a result in
this life and next forever.
He is acting as our High Priest in heaven as our mediator:
1 Tim. 2:5 says, "For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." Right now, there is a man in heaven on the throne of God. He is our advocate with the Father (1 John 2:1). He is our Savior (Titus 2:13). He is our Lord (Rom. 10:9-10). He is Jesus.
Did God appeared as man before the birth of Jesus:
God appeared to Gideon again as a human, the angel of the Lord is one of God's personality...
Judges 6: 11
The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.
And again to Manoah's wife...
Jud 3:13
The angel of the LORD appeared to her and said, "You are sterile and childless, but you are going to conceive and have a son
As you can see it is Angel of the Lord again who is God in person.
Jud 13:6
Then the woman went to her husband and told him, "A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't tell me his name.
Jud 13:10-11
The woman hurried to tell her husband, "He's here! The man who appeared to me the other day!"
Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, "Are you the one who talked to my wife?" "I am," he said.
Jud 13:17-18
Then Manoah inquired of the angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes true?"
He replied, "Why do you ask my name? It is Wonderful.
This is again repeated in Isaiah 9:5
9:6 For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his
name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The
everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Jud 13:19-23
Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the LORD. And the LORD did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched:
As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground.
When the angel of the LORD did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it was the angel of the LORD.
"We are doomed to die!" he said to his wife. "We have seen God!"
But his wife answered, "If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this."
Some other thoughts about Jesus:
Muslims believe Jesus is prophet but that is not enough to be saved.
In order to enter heaven with a guarantee three things are important as the Bible tells us.
1. You must confess your sins to Jesus and repent with a sincere heart and
accept him as your saviour and Lord.
2. You must obey Jesus's commands
3. You must be baptized in water to be born of the spirit (new nature) to enter heaven, this is the second birth, purer birth.
John 3:5
Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
Muslims don't even do half of that and think they can be saved by just
believing Jesus is prophet and following a cult and Pagan religion.
They just deny his deity and hope Muhammad prophet can save them.
Muhammad prophet is dead and cannot save but Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead and then went to heaven, he is alive and only he can save.
Just to call him a prophet and deny his crucifixion is not enough to be saved,
you must obey him too.
The crucifixion was the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus for the Love of man kind to save all those who come to him it is only through his blood that we are covered of our sins or the word is atoned.
Acts 4:12
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." (through Jesus)
Eph 2:4-5
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been
saved.
If you don't believe in Jesus then you are dead already spiritually.
It is not God who done this but the fallen world we are in, is a dark world and Satan is the one who is the prince of this world so it is his doing for most of the bad
things happening but we choose to blame it on God to.
Jesus is the only name given under heaven who saves.
You can follow Islam or some other world created religion but if you do not follow Jesus as the Messiah and ask him to save you then when you die,
hell will be for eternity and not for a short period of time like Muhammad prophet try to make people believe.
It is a very heavy price to pay to follow this worlds prophets!
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