Dear CF,
I agree with you, God will be whatever He chooses to be. But in His choices, will He contradict HIS revealed Word, that HE declared in the Old Testament?
If Jesus is truly His son, would He offer His son, and contradict His word that human sacrifice is an abomination to Him? Jesus proclaimed His word and urged everybody to obey and follow his example as a follower of Yahweh’s revealed lifestyle. Jesus never gave us an example of ever contradicting Yahweh. He never thought of himself as God.
The disciples being Jews, will never accept another god other than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. A look at the historicity of Christianity will attest that as more and more Gentiles became believers in Jesus and proclaimed that he is divine, the Jewish followers on the other hand reverted back to Judaism; for to them, there can only be one God.
To me, I cannot fault Jesus. He was a man who loved GOD and did his best to teach and ask people to follow the ONE TRUE GOD.
Do read the history of early Christianity and you will discover what really happened that resulted in the proclamations of dogmas and doctrines that Christians adhere to today.
Is the New Testament historically reliable?
The primary sources for the life of Jesus are the four gospels. To this, we add the writings of early Christian writers. We have too, the writings from non-Christian sources that supplement and confirm the gospel accounts, which comes from the Greek, Roman, Jewish and Samaritan writers. So we know that bibliographically and through the sheer numbers of manuscripts that exist to this day, attest to their closeness to the original writings. We can add too that some archaeological finds proves the historical reliability of the New Testament. So we may conclude that yes, the New Testament is historically reliable. But is it inspired?
As we read and study the New Testament, let us ask if it is true to what God had declared in the Old Testament.
The Old Testament as all believers in YAHWEH accept, is the foundation of our faith; the Christian faith proclaims this too. The bottom line is—is the NT declaring something else not found in GOD’S WORD? You might say yes, everything that Christianity proclaims is validated by the OT. But in studying what Christianity proclaims, specially that which concerns the divinity of Jesus, are derived from mistranslations, misinterpretations and allusions to Jesus, when the verses alluded to do not validate the claim.
Do give me the OT references that point to Jesus as divine and that God has an only begotten son, who is supposed to be Redeemer and Saviour. If I am wrong, may YAHWEH give me a humble spirit to admit my error.
BAN@S6K
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