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Does Forgiving Sins Mean Jesus Is God?

February 2, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 2 comments

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Many Christians have been taught and believe that Jesus Christ is Almighty God because he actually forgave sins while he was on earth. Does forgiving sins mean that Jesus is God? Let’s analyze the scriptures objectively, and see for ourselves.

Mark 2:5-7 – “When Jesus saw their faith, he saw to the paralytic, ‘Child, your sins are forgiven.’ Now some of the scribes were sitting there asking themselves, ‘ Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?” (NAB). Does this assertion by Jesus’ enemies that, ‘only God can forgive sins’, mean that Jesus is God? Notice next what term Jesus uses to describe himself: read more

How Can Jesus Be God If He Is the Mediator?

January 26, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 2 comments

“There is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all”—1 Timothy 2:5,6 NIV

“Mediator. One who represents God to humans and humans to God–and who removes all alienation between them by offering himself as a ransom for ‘all'”—NIV Study Bible footnote on 1 Timothy 2:5

The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the mediator BETWEEN God and mankind.

“GOD-MAN” MEDIATOR CLAIMS

Trinitarians claim that Jesus is God, and their “God-man” also. How do they explain this apparent contradiction?

They claim that only Jesus could be the mediator because he is the “God-man”, that is, he’s “fully god, fully man”, they claim”, thus being part and parcel of both parties he represents.

Jesus the Mediator — Jesus is the Mediator between God and mankind. Yet, Trinitarians claim Jesus is also God, and call him “God-man.”Trinitarians say: “Jesus MUST be God in order to be our mediator.”

That is the crux of their argument. Since there is nothing in the scriptures to support such an idea, Trinitarians resort to equivocation by changing the meaning of “mediator”, since Jesus being the mediator BETWEEN humans and God (1 Timothy 2:5) presents a huge problem for their Trinity doctrine. (2 Corinthians 10:3-4).

Trinitarians ask: “If he did not share God’s nature, how could he bring us to God and God to us?”

“GOD-MAN” MEDIATOR CONCEPT IS SELF-DEFEATING

And the Biblical answer is…

“Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. THAT IS WHY HE IS THE ONE WHO MEDIATES a new covenant between God and people” (Hebrews 9:14,15 NLT). read more

Why Jesus – Not God – Died For Our Sins

December 13, 2017 BibleAuthenticity Comments 25 comments

The Bible says God cannot die. Yet Trinitarians assert that Jesus must be God himself in order to die for the sins of mankind stands in stark contradiction to all scriptural evidence. It was Jesus, not God, who died for sins.

Jesus, not God — It was Jesus – not God – who died for the sins of mankind

“LORD [Yahweh], are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die” (Habakkuk 1:12 NIV)

From this scripture, we can see that it is impossible that Jesus could be the God who would die for the sins of mankind, since the prophecy of Habakkuk was written over 600 years prior to Jesus and clearly states that God will never die.

“For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors,but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. ” (1 Peter 1:18,19 NIV)

Again, contrary to the Trinitarian assertion that without Jesus being God, then his blood is “ordinary”, and could not atone for sins, we see clearly stated that Jesus’ blood is precious, and does indeed atone for our sins. Why? Because, “God cannot be tempted” (James 1:13 NIV). Jesus is the only one who has

“been tested in every way, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15 NIV), read more

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