{"id":36556,"date":"2022-09-13T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-jesus-god-or-he-is-a-normal-person\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:00:56","slug":"is-jesus-god-or-he-is-a-normal-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-jesus-god-or-he-is-a-normal-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Jesus God, or he is a normal person?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(All citations are from the KJV.)<\/p>\n

Jesus is not God.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Matthew 3:17 – God says of Jesus, "This is my beloved Son<\/strong> in whom I am well pleased."<\/p>\n

John 5:30 – Jesus says, "because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father<\/strong> which hath sent me." Also John 14:28, "I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I<\/strong>." These are just a few of the many scripture citations that show Jesus is not God, but God's son.<\/p>\n

However, God (the Father) so loved the world (of mankind) that he gave (sacrificed) His only begotten<\/strong> Son<\/strong> to bring salvation to the world. This brings us to the second part of the question:<\/p>\n

Was Jesus a "normal" person?<\/p>\n

Jesus in his prehuman existence<\/strong> was a spirit being<\/strong> who dwelt with the Father and other angelic beings. (Proverbs 8:22-30). In order to become the redeemer of the human race, he experienced a change of nature. John 1:14, "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." In Hebrews 2:8-9, the writer quotes Psalms 8:4-8 describing man <\/strong>as being made "a little lower than angels<\/strong>." Hebrews 2:9 tells us that Jesus took on the same (human) nature<\/strong> so that he could "taste death for every man." Jesus <\/strong>had to be a corresponding being to the first man<\/strong> (the perfect man Adam) who brought sin into the world. Justice<\/strong> required a perfect man (Jesus) to accept the death penalty for another perfect man (Adam). Therefore Jesus had to be made a perfect a human being — no more, no less. Hebrews 2:17, "for it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren.<\/strong>"<\/p>\n

Was he "normal"?<\/strong> Compared to fallen humanity, no<\/strong>. All people are descendants of Father Adam, and therefore contaminated with inherited sin. "By one man's disobedience many were made sinners," Romans 5:19. But Jesus had God for his father; therefore, he did not come under the condemnation brought upon mankind by Adam. He was "holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners<\/strong>," Hebrews 7:26.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(All citations are from the KJV.) Jesus is not God.  Matthew 3:17 – God says of Jesus, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." John 5:30 – Jesus says, "because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." Also John 14:28, "I go … Continue reading “Is Jesus God, or he is a normal person?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}