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Çok iyi. Bu tam olarak olduğuna.OK. I understand your explanation. The human nature of Jesus is irrevelant when you worship him so you don't worship human.
So let me get this straight it does not mention of Jesus' divinity specifically but it speaks of his human self? So how is it that you derive this in such great length?
It is the concept of the hypostatic union that is only inferred and not specifically spelled out in the Bible. I didn't say that Jesus' divinity isn't spelled out in the Bible. It is most certainly mentioned in statements as simple as Matthew's recounting of Jesus being called Immanuel "which means 'God with us'." Or Paul's statement that Jesus "being in very nature God."
Beacause a person performs miracles it does not this person a god incarnate
Not in and by themselves. Taken together with the other things I listed and you have a clear presentation of Jesus as not only being understood to be divine by the Gospel writers but as understanding himself to be God as well. For no good teacher would claim to forgive sins -- something that Jesus' Jewish contemporaries understood only God has the authority to do -- unless he actually had the power and authority to do so. So, if Jesus is not God, then he is most certainly not the good teacher or prophet of God that others make him out to be, but rather a man who falsely claimed divine perogatives for himself. For, Jesus most certainly did claim to forgive sins and then later would confer this to his disciples through the giving of the Holy Spirit (God present in their lives). Such a claim if true means that he is God, and if false means that he is as antithetical to the ways of God as the devil himself. There is no inbetween ground.
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