Loco I'm going to respond to your quotes which you asked me to quite a while ago, but before I do I want to clarify that there's no denying that yes there are some instances of people in the Bible having called Jesus God, but not a single declaration/quote from Jesus himself making this claim. Someone else claiming that Jesus is God, despite his own denying of it on several other occasions, does not form as evidence of his divinity.
As I stated at the start of this post, this comes back to the fact that some others in the Bible referred to Jesus as God, but nowhere did Jesus claim it.
bigbobs,
So you do admit that many people called Jesus God to his face, according to the Bible. Please tell me why did Jesus not correct them or discourage them if they were wrong about him? What of the people who worshiped him? Jesus never stopped them.
John 20:28-2928 Thomas said to him, “
My Lord and my God!”
29 Then Jesus told him, “
Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Why did Jesus not correct Thomas? Why did Jesus not stop Thomas from worshiping him? Why did Jesus not say "I am not God"?
Matthew 14:33Then those who were in the boat
worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
Matthew 28:9Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and
worshiped him.
John 9:38-3938 Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he
worshiped him.
If Jesus were a mere prophet of God, he would have immediately stopped any worship directed at him. Even angels do this:
Revelation 22:8-9I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. But he said to me, “
Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll.
Worship God!”
Now that you see Jesus allowed people to worship him, and now hat you have admitted that people called Jesus God to his face, please find me in the Bible where Jesus is quoted saying "I am not God."