Jesus christ is NOT God

After reading your argument, I see that your main points are: 1. Jesus could not have been God because He was tempted. 2. Jesus wasn't God because He prayed to the Father. 3. Jesus told His disciples to trust in God the Father and also in Him. 4. If Jesus was God, how did He not know what hour He would return? 5. You argue Jesus never claimed to be God. 6. You claim Jesus denied his divinity. 7. Jesus should already have power and authority. OVERVIEW As an introduction, I would like to first state that you believe in the Quran, a book written nearly 700 years after Jesus' death. This book claims that Jesus never died, despite the innumerable historical accounts that claims He did. These accounts were written by Jewish scholars, Roman Historians, individuals who converted to Christianity (Probably the most reliable and valid as they later became martyrs for what they believed, as well as many others) There is not one educated ancient historian in this whole world who denies that Jesus died. They all agree that He died, regardless of whether they believe what He said was true or not. On top of this, Mohammed saw Jesus as a 'great teacher' who was a prophet, but not God, and furthermore claimed that the Bible had been edited or changed over time. Firstly, one cannot take some of Jesus' teachings and not the rest. Jesus was one of these three: 1. A mad person who deceived all of mankind. 2. God, as He claimed to be. You cannot say that Jesus was a great teacher, but not divine as He claimed to be divine. You either take all of His teachings or you take none of them. (John 8:58) John 8:58 "Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" 'I am' was God's title all throughout the Old Testament, shown clearly in Exodus 3:14 "14 God said to Moses, "I am who I am." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, "I am has sent me to you." Following this statement of identification, the Jewish leaders were about to stone Him as it says in the next verse. John 8:59 "At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds." Why would they want to stone Him? Simply because they knew exactly what He was claiming. He was claiming to be the Son of God. TRINITY: EXPLAINED 1. Now I want to note that one of the main points you make is Jesus could not have been tempted. What you are saying is that Jesus can't be both God and man, though throughout the scriptures, we see that that is the case. Jesus was tempted because He was a human being, yet it was not possible for Him to sin because He is God Himself. The act of temptation is not sin, rather it is something experienced by humans naturally. Jesus is commonly identified as the 'Son of Man', as well as being called God in John 1:1-14. Jesus was not just a man. Jesus was God. Think of H20. H20 comes in three forms: ice, water and steam. Ice is H20, water is H20, and steam is H20. Ice is not water, nor is water steam, nor is ice steam. They are all separate but exactly the same at the same time. Another example is a dice. If I were to ask you what one side was and you said 'the side with 6 on it', and then I asked you what another side was and you said 'it is the side with 5 on it', what you are really saying is that a dice has more than one side. Every single side is part of the dice, but the sides are not each other. They are not the same, as they are different though contribute to the dice as a whole. (See this for further information: http://carm.org...) 2. Jesus prayed to God the Father because He and the Father are separate. Just as Jesus is separate from the Holy Spirit, God the Father and God the Son are separate. They are all God, same in nature, but different in person. They are three different identities of the same nature. Jesus claimed to forgive sins, Jesus was praised and worshiped by men Mark 2:55 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven."6 Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, 7 "Why does this fellow talk like that? He"s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?" Every Jewish person living in that day knew that only God could forgive sins, therefore Jesus was attesting to His deity by claiming He could forgive sins. If He weren't, the people there would not have gotten so angry and tried to kill Him! You cannot take some parts of the Bible and reject others. You either take it as a whole or don't take it at all. It says in Revelation 3:16 that God opposes the lukewarm and will 'spit them out'; in other words they will not be saved. 3. With the Trinity in mind, God the Father and God the Son interact with each other. They are in a relationship, just as the Holy Spirit is in this divine, eternal trinity. All three are of exactly the same nature, though are different in person. Jesus was fully man and fully God, as it claims in the Bible in Colossians 1:15, which says Jesus was the creator of the world. The only way you can possibly reconcile this is if you admit that Jesus was actually God. He was God as well as man. 4. 5. Jesus did claim to be God. Read this: http://www.gotquestions.org... 6. Jesus never denied His divinity when He said 'No one is good but God alone', He was simply stating the fact that God is 'good'. Furthermore, He claims to be good later on John 10:11, when Christ calls himself the 'Good Shepherd who lays his life down for His sheep'. Jesus claimed to be the 'Way, the Truth, and the Life', He said 'No one comes to the Father except through me'. You cannot take some of Jesus' teaching and reject the rest. 8. Jesus prayed to God the Father because He is in a relationship with the Father. They are both God, but separate persons. They communicate with each other. What is your problem with that? Jesus had to eat, drink, sleep, and do everything a human would do. He was God though, so he never sinned