Jesus is God

It is true that I overlooked several points that my opponent made, so let me address them now;" I and my Father are one. "My opponent uses this verse to advance his claim that Jesus is God. If Jesus meant one in essence with God how does my opponent explain this verse, which uses the same Greek word for one, which is 'heis';"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. " John 17:21This is Jesus praying for his disciples, is my opponent willing to concede that he should be worshipping fifteen gods, not three? My opponent reads these texts literally, which would confuse someone who followed his interpretation of the Bible if they came upon these verses;"Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh. " 1 Cor: 6:16"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. " Eph 5:31The last time I checked my wife and I are not one person! "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. " Genesis 2:24"Has not [the LORD] made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. " Malachi 2:15My opponent said that I did not address the following topics;* God the Father calls Jesus God in Hebrews 1:8. *Jesus is called God in Philippians 2:6. *Prophecy in Isaiah 9:6 calls Messiah "Mighty God". * Jesus bears the name of God in Philippians 2:6. *God has a Son in Proverbs 30:4. * Jesus( Messiah) is "God with us" as. Stated in Isaiah 7:14. A careful reading of my first post will reveal that I did in fact deal with all of these matters by giving proof that there are many gods in the Bible, which does not make him the Creator, so there is no need for me to repeat myself here. I will let the audience decide if I answered them adequately. Capital 'G' and small 'g'My opponent argues the following; "Satan is called a god not God. Many beings are called gods in the bible e. g. The angels ( Psalm 8:5) , Holy men/ Judges ( Psalm 82:1) and satan ( 2 Corinthians 4:4) . However my opponent makes a false quotation by capitalizing the "g" in god in 2 Cor 4:4 when in face the verse simply reads, " the god of the world", god with a small "g" connoting a false deity. The english bible does a brilliant job of distinguishing and establishing the difference between God and god. " Of course my opponent is totally wrong. There are capital letters in Greek, however, biblical texts were written in UNCIAL (capital) letters and essential there was no capitialization (as it was all capitalized), no punctuation, and no spacing. So translators placed capital letters where THEY thought it was appropriate. Here is Esther 3:2-8 as an example; . http://upload.wikimedia.org...Just so the reader does not think I'm making this up I have provided a quote from a Christian scholarly website;"Koine Greek was the language used by writers of the Old Testament Greek Septuagint and the Greek New Testament. The original Greek New Testament was written in all capital letters, without spaces, punctuation, accents or diacritical marks. " (. http://biblescripture.net...)I reserve further rebuttals for my next post because I would now like to present more evidence that Jesus is not and cannot be God. The Messiah is not GodMy opponent said this in his first post;"We see that messiah will be MIGHTY GOD, the prophecy holds the position that messiah will be God as one of his name/titles that he shall be called is MIGHTY GOD. "Again he makes this statement without offering any source. The fact of the matter is that the Messiah is not God, but was supposed to be an annointed King of Israel. Now both the son of God and the term Christ do not mean God. They never have, and never will. The term Christ means Messiah, the definition of Messiah is not God, and the Jews who were awaiting their Messiah did not believe the Messiah would be God: The predominant Jewish understanding of moshiach (“the messiah”) is based on the writings of Maimonides, (the Rambam). His views on the messiah are discussed in his Mishneh Torah, his 14 volume compendium of Jewish law, in the section Hilkhot Melakhim Umilchamoteihem, chapter 11. Maimonides writes: “The anointed King (“HaMelekh HaMoshiach”) is destined to stand up and restore the Davidic Kingdom to its antiquity, to the first sovereignty. He will build the Temple in Jerusalem and gather the strayed ones of Israel together. All laws will return in his days as they were before: Sacrificial offerings are offered and the Sabbatical years and Jubilees are kept, according to all its precepts that are mentioned in the Torah. Whoever does not believe in him, or whoever does not wait for his coming, not only does he defy the other prophets, but also the Torah and our Rabbi Moses. For the Torah testifies about him, thus: “And the Lord Your God will return your returned ones and will show you mercy and will return and gather you… If your strayed one shall be at the edge of Heaven… And He shall bring you” etc. ” (Deuteronomy 30:3-5). “These words that are explicitly stated in the Torah, encompass and include all the words spoken by all the prophets. In the section of Torah referring to Bala’am, too, it is stated, and there he prophesied about the two anointed ones: The first anointed one is David, who saved Israel from all their oppressors; and the last anointed one will stand up from among his descendants and saves Israel in the end. This is what he says (Numbers 24:17-18): “I see him but not now” – this is David; “I behold him but not near” – this is the Anointed King. “A star has shot forth from Jacob” – this is David; “And a brand will rise up from Israel” – this is the Anointed King. “And he will smash the edges of Moab” – This is David, as it states: “…And he struck Moab and measured them by rope” (II Samuel 8:2); “And he will uproot all Children of Seth” – this is the Anointed King, of whom it is stated: “And his reign shall be from sea to sea” (Zechariah 9:10). “And Edom shall be possessed” – this is David, thus: “And Edom became David’s as slaves etc. ” (II Samuel 8:6); “And Se’ir shall be possessed by its enemy” – this is the Anointed King, thus: “And saviors shall go up Mount Zion to judge Mount Esau, and the Kingdom shall be the Lord’s” (Obadiah 1:21). ” “And by the Towns of Refuge it states: “And if the Lord your God will widen up your territory… you shall add on for you another three towns” etc. (Deuteronomy 19:8-9). Now this thing never happened; and the Holy One does not command in vain. But as for the words of the prophets, this matter needs no proof, as all their books are full with this issue. ” So you see, the Messiah was to bring the Children of Israel back to her glory, he was not to be a member of a triune Godhead. I await my opponents response.