Now that you have had a thorough view of how the claim that Jesus is God falls far short of substantiated proof, (and in some cases proving exactly the opposite when the fog is lifted from the verse,) let us look at verses that make it clear, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Jesus is most certainly not God. Verses that require no explanation, no ignoring the body of the Scriptures, no exploiting ambiguities, no contortions, verbal accrobatics or fiddling with the text and no making up non-existent rules of grammar to prove some false doctrine. Lots of verses.
God is not a mere man who tells lies, nor a son of man who changes his mind.
1 Kings 8:27 [pa|in]
But will God really dwell on the earth? Look! The heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens, cannot contain you; how much less, then, this house that I have built!
Job 9:32 [pa|in]
For [God] is not a man like me that I may answer him, that we should go to court together.
Isaiah 66:1, 2 [pa|in]
This is what Jehovah says: "The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where, then, is the house that you could build for me, and where is my resting-place? My own hand has made all these things, and this is how they all came to be," declares Jehovah.
Malachi 3:6 [pa|in]
I am Jehovah, I do not change.
WHILE JESUS WAS ON EARTH
John 8:40 [pa|in]
But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
AFTER JESUS
Acts 7:48, 49 [pa|in]
the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands, just as the prophet says: ’The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What sort of house will you build for me? Jehovah says. Or where is my resting-place? My hand made all these things, did it not’
Acts 17:24 [pa|in]
The God who made the world and all the things in it, being, as he is, Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in handmade temples.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Revelation 3:14 [pa|in]
“To the angel of the congregation in Laodicea write: These are the things that the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God."
And going a little way forward, he fell facedown, praying: “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me. Yet, not as I will, but as you will.”. . . Again, a second time, he went off and prayed: “My Father, if it is not possible for this to pass away unless I drink it, let your will take place.”
John 14:28 [pa|in], 31 [pa|in]
"If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I am. . . . But for the world to know that I love the Father, I am doing just as the Father has commanded me to do . . . ."
John 15:10 [pa|in]
If you observe my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have observed the commandments of the Father and remain in his love.
1 Corinthians 11:13 [pa|in]
But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 15:28 [pa|in]
But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone.
Jesus said to him: “Why do you call me good? Nobody is good except one, God."
Supplemental: Trinitarians Desperate to Plug Mark 10:18
John 20:17 [pa|in]
"I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God."
1 Corinthians 11:13 [pa|in]
But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 15:24 [pa|in]
Next, the end, when he hands over the Kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power
Ephesians 1:17 [pa|in]
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you all a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the accurate knowledge of him.
"Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father."
Mark 10:18 [pa|in]
"Why do you call me ’good [teacher]’? Nobody is good except one, God."
John 14:24 [pa|in]
". . . the word that you are hearing is not mine, but belongs to the Father who sent me.
Hebrews 5:8, 9 [pa|in]
Although he was a son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered; and after he had been made perfect, he became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those obeying him,
Revelation 1:1 [pa|in]
A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent his angel and presented it in signs through him to his slave John,
"All authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth."
John 5:26, 27 [pa|int]
For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted also to the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to do judging, because he is the Son of man.
John 10:18 [pa|in]
"No man takes it away from me, but I surrender it of my own initiative. I have authority to surrender it, and I have authority to receive it again. This commandment I received from my Father."
John 17:1, 2 [pa|in]
"Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son so that your son may glorify you, just as you have given him authority over all flesh, so that he may give everlasting life to all those whom you have given to him."
Acts 2:36 [pa|in]
"Therefore, let all the house of Israel know for a certainty that God made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you executed on a stake."
Acts 17:31 [pa|in]
"Because [God] has set a day on which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has provided a guarantee to all men by resurrecting him from the dead."
Ephesians 1:19-23 [pa|in]
It is according to the operation of the mightiness of his strength, which he exercised toward Christ when he raised him up from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above every government and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named, not only in this system of things but also in that to come. He also subjected all things under his feet and made him head over all things with regard to the congregation, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills up all things in all.
Philippians 2:9 [pa|in]
God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every other name.
And he added: “You are not able to see my face, because no man may see me and yet live.”
John 1:18 [pa|in]
No one has seen God at any time.
John 4:24 [pa|in]
God is a Spirit, and those worshipping him must worship with spirit and truth.
2 Corinthians 4:3, 4 [pa|in]
If, in fact, the good news we declare is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.
Colossians 1:15 [pa|in]
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
1 Timothy 1:17 [pa|in]
Now to the King of eternity, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
One of the scribes. . . asked him: “Which commandment is first of all?” Jesus answered: “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah, . . . The scribe said to him: “Teacher, you spoke well, in line with truth, ‘He is One, and there is no other besides him’ . . . At this Jesus, discerning that he had answered intelligently, said to him: “You are not far from the Kingdom of God.”
John 17:3 [pa|in]
"This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ."
John 20:17 [pa|in]
"I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God."
Acts 7:55, 56 [pa|in]
But [Stephen], being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and caught sight of God’s glory and of Jesus standing at God’s right hand, and he said: “Look! I see the heavens opened up and the Son of man standing at God’s right hand.
1 Corinthians 8:6 [pa|in]
There is actually to us one God, the Father, from whom all things are and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and we through him.
Ephesians 4:4-6 [pa|in]
One body there is, and one spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
1 Thessalonians 1:9, 10 [pa|in]
". . . to slave for a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from the heavens, . . . "
2 Thessalonians 2:16 [pa|in]
Moreover, may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and gave everlasting comfort and good hope by means of undeserved kindness,
1 Timothy 2:5 [pa|in]
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus.
1 John 5:20 [pa|in]
"But we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us insight so that we may gain the knowledge of the one who is true. And we are in union with the one who is true, by means of his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and life everlasting"
Jude 25 [pa|in]
To the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority for all past eternity and now and into all eternity. Amen.
Revelation 3:21 [pa|in]
To the one who conquers I will grant to sit down with me on my throne, just as I conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Return to the beginning of the Salvation vs. the Trinity/Binity series
Go back to: Part 12 (5): Is There Proof That Jesus Is God? (Romans to 1 John)
Coming soon: Part 14 (1): Is There Proof That Holy spirit Is a Personage? (General)
GOD HAS NEVER BEEN A MAN THAT DWELLS ON EARTH
BEFORE JESUS
Numbers 23:19 [pa|in]God is not a mere man who tells lies, nor a son of man who changes his mind.
1 Kings 8:27 [pa|in]
But will God really dwell on the earth? Look! The heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens, cannot contain you; how much less, then, this house that I have built!
Job 9:32 [pa|in]
For [God] is not a man like me that I may answer him, that we should go to court together.
Isaiah 66:1, 2 [pa|in]
This is what Jehovah says: "The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where, then, is the house that you could build for me, and where is my resting-place? My own hand has made all these things, and this is how they all came to be," declares Jehovah.
Malachi 3:6 [pa|in]
I am Jehovah, I do not change.
WHILE JESUS WAS ON EARTH
John 8:40 [pa|in]
But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
AFTER JESUS
Acts 7:48, 49 [pa|in]
the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands, just as the prophet says: ’The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What sort of house will you build for me? Jehovah says. Or where is my resting-place? My hand made all these things, did it not’
Acts 17:24 [pa|in]
The God who made the world and all the things in it, being, as he is, Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in handmade temples.
JESUS IS A CREATED BEING
Colossians 1:15 [pa|in]He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Revelation 3:14 [pa|in]
“To the angel of the congregation in Laodicea write: These are the things that the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God."
THE FATHER IS GREATER THAN JESUS
Matthew 26:39 [par|int], 42 [pa|in]And going a little way forward, he fell facedown, praying: “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me. Yet, not as I will, but as you will.”
John 14:28 [pa|in], 31 [pa|in]
"If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I am
John 15:10 [pa|in]
If you observe my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have observed the commandments of the Father and remain in his love.
1 Corinthians 11:13 [pa|in]
But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 15:28 [pa|in]
But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone.
THE FATHER IS THE GOD OF JESUS
Mark 10:18 [pa|in]Jesus said to him: “Why do you call me good? Nobody is good except one, God."
Supplemental: Trinitarians Desperate to Plug Mark 10:18
John 20:17 [pa|in]
"I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God."
1 Corinthians 11:13 [pa|in]
But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 15:24 [pa|in]
Next, the end, when he hands over the Kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power
Ephesians 1:17 [pa|in]
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you all a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the accurate knowledge of him.
LIMITED IN KNOWLEDGE AND PERFECTION
Matthew 24:36 [pa|in]"Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father."
Mark 10:18 [pa|in]
"Why do you call me ’good [teacher]’? Nobody is good except one, God."
John 14:24 [pa|in]
"
Hebrews 5:8, 9 [pa|in]
Although he was a son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered; and after he had been made perfect, he became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those obeying him,
Revelation 1:1 [pa|in]
A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent his angel and presented it in signs through him to his slave John,
RECEIVES HIS AUTHORITY FROM GOD
Matthew 28:18 [par|in]"All authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth."
John 5:26, 27 [pa|int]
For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted also to the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to do judging, because he is the Son of man.
John 10:18 [pa|in]
"No man takes it away from me, but I surrender it of my own initiative. I have authority to surrender it, and I have authority to receive it again. This commandment I received from my Father."
John 17:1, 2 [pa|in]
"Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son so that your son may glorify you, just as you have given him authority over all flesh, so that he may give everlasting life to all those whom you have given to him."
Acts 2:36 [pa|in]
"Therefore, let all the house of Israel know for a certainty that God made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you executed on a stake."
Acts 17:31 [pa|in]
"Because [God] has set a day on which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has provided a guarantee to all men by resurrecting him from the dead."
Ephesians 1:19-23 [pa|in]
It is according to the operation of the mightiness of his strength, which he exercised toward Christ when he raised him up from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above every government and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named, not only in this system of things but also in that to come. He also subjected all things under his feet and made him head over all things with regard to the congregation, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills up all things in all.
Philippians 2:9 [pa|in]
God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every other name.
GOD HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN AND ONLY REFLECTED IN JESUS
Exodus 33:20 [pa|in]And he added: “You are not able to see my face, because no man may see me and yet live.”
John 1:18 [pa|in]
No one has seen God at any time.
John 4:24 [pa|in]
God is a Spirit, and those worshipping him must worship with spirit and truth.
2 Corinthians 4:3, 4 [pa|in]
If, in fact, the good news we declare is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.
Colossians 1:15 [pa|in]
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
1 Timothy 1:17 [pa|in]
Now to the King of eternity, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
THE ONLY TRUE GOD IS NOT JESUS
Mark 12;27-34 [pa|in]One of the scribes
John 17:3 [pa|in]
"This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ."
John 20:17 [pa|in]
"I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God."
Acts 7:55, 56 [pa|in]
But [Stephen], being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and caught sight of God’s glory and of Jesus standing at God’s right hand, and he said: “Look! I see the heavens opened up and the Son of man standing at God’s right hand.
1 Corinthians 8:6 [pa|in]
There is actually to us one God, the Father, from whom all things are and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and we through him.
Ephesians 4:4-6 [pa|in]
One body there is, and one spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
"
2 Thessalonians 2:16 [pa|in]
Moreover, may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and gave everlasting comfort and good hope by means of undeserved kindness,
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus.
1 John 5:20 [pa|in]
"But we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us insight so that we may gain the knowledge of the one who is true. And we are in union with the one who is true, by means of his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and life everlasting"
Jude 25 [pa|in]
To the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority for all past eternity and now and into all eternity. Amen.
Revelation 3:21 [pa|in]
To the one who conquers I will grant to sit down with me on my throne, just as I conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Return to the beginning of the Salvation vs. the Trinity/Binity series
Go back to: Part 12 (5): Is There Proof That Jesus Is God? (Romans to 1 John)
Coming soon: Part 14 (1): Is There Proof That Holy spirit Is a Personage? (General)
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