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"You claim God is ‘numerically’ singular and not a trinity, can you give one verse in the bible where JESUS HIMSELF CLAIMS TO BE DIVINE?" ~ Anonymous

QNA: Is Jesus Divine?

Author: Kenneth Long

Posted: Wednesday, June 12, 2024

@Anonymous, not sure why you require an "unambiguous" declaration from Jesus concerning his divinity; unless you have some other explanation as to how he could dispel sickness, exercise control over demons and revive the dead simply by "speaking" to the situation. I understand your point of three seperate but "coequal" beings, and that if the son is not divine, then God cannot be "numerically" singular. However, the truth of one God, "singular", is interpreted from the bible, but more importantly, the absolute "singleness" of God is a declaration from God himself. We see in:

Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel: The LORD thy God is one LORD

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(also see Mark 12:28-34). We also read in

Isaiah 44:6,8

Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me "THERE IS NO GOD." Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

King James Version

and also...

Isaiah 46:9

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else;I am God, and there is NONE "like" me,

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There are over two-dozen other verses that expressed the same sentiment. In the book of Philippians, we read:

Philippians 2:5-6

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God [the visible vessel of God], thought it not robbery to be equal with God:.

King James Version

You made a distinction between father and son calling the son "Jesus" and, I assume, the father YHVH or JHVH, but understand that Jesus is the name of "God" (well, one of his names); the flesh that God inhabited (the son – the mortal body / human experience of God in flesh) also inherited that name by way of the spirit (God). The bible states in

John 7:59

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon "God" , and "saying", Lord "Jesus", receive my spirit.

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We also read in Acts (Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus)

Acts 9:35

And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, " Who art thou, "Lord? " "And the Lord said", "I am Jesus" whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

King James Version

The name was also passed on to the physical body of God (the son). Hebrews reads:

Hebrews 1:4-5

So he " became" as much superior to the angels [became - "the flesh became"; not always superior to angels; cannot be eternal or God] as "the name" "he has inherited" is superior to theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son; today I have "become" your Father?" [not always a father - son has a beginning; not eternal].

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The bible also says

John 5:43

I am come in my Father's "name" [Luke 1:31 – the name the son came in], and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. [which is wearing the name,father or son?]

King James Version

(also see John 10:30). So, make no mistake about it, "Jesus" "is" the name of God.

But to answer your question; YES, I can give scripture where Jesus claims he is the divine; in fact, the bible does one better, the scriptures tell us that Jesus states he is God. In St. John:

John 14:5-10

Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him,Jesus say I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.If ye had known "me", ye "should" have known "my Father" also: and from henceforth ye "know" "him", "and have "seen" "him". Philip saith unto him, Lord, "show" us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have "I" been so long time with you, a.d yet hast thou not known "me", Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak NOT of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, "he" doeth the works.

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The bible cannot make it any clearer. Philip asks to see the Father, did Jesus direct their eyes toward heaven into the great beyond and reveal a luminescent being sitting on a golden throne; NO, God himself spoke to Philp in the first person, from within a human body and states [paraphrasing] "All the time I have been with you and you still don’t know "me" Philip?" He goes on to say "He who has seen me HAS SEEN THE FATHER, so why are you asking to "see" the Father when I am right here." This declaration is completely consistent with 1 Timothy 3:16 and also John 5:17-18. We read in

1 Timothy 3:16

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

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It was the divine spirit that spoke out of the flesh; as it was God who was the animating force "of" that flesh (the son); just as "our" spirits are the animating force of our bodies. As the son (human) references the father in the third person, it clearly identifies the divine spirt (God himself) as the one who speaks and performed miracles (v 10). This the dichotomy of "human" nature and the "divine" nature of Jesus. The bible only Identifies the "son of God" as flesh (Luke 1:35). However, with in that flesh was the same being who created all that surrounds us. As I stated before, there is only one (numerically singular) God who is everywhere at the same time, and was before time. He didn’t "become" a man, but came in the "likeness" of sinful flesh. There is no trinity.