Jesus is not God

Bible Verses (Jesus is not God)

Bible Verses that Indicate that Jesus is not God the Creator part 1

1. Matthew 24:36 

"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

Here Jesus makes a distinction between what he knows and what the Father knows.

2. Matthew 26:39 

"My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

Jesus’ will is likewise autonomous from God’s Will. Jesus is seeking acquiescence to God’s will.

3. John 5:26 

"The Father has life in himself, and he has granted that same life-giving power to his Son."

Jesus received his life from God. God received his life from no one. He is eternally self-existent.

4. John 5:30 

"By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgement is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me."

Jesus says, “by myself, I can do nothing.” This indicates that Jesus is relying upon his own relationship with God. He is not trying to "please (himself)" but rather is seeking to “please the one who sent (him).”

5. John 5:19 

" The  Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does."

Jesus declares that he is following a pattern laid down by God. He is expressing obedience to God.

6. Mark 10:18

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone."

Here Jesus emphatically makes a distinction between himself and God.

Bible Verses that Indicate that Jesus is not God the Creator part 2

7. John 14:28 

"The Father is greater than I."

This is another strong statement that makes a distinction between Jesus and God.

8. Matthew 6:9 

"This, then, is how you should pray:

“‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name"

Our Father,  in Heaven. 

He didn’t pray, "Our Father, standing right here!”

9. Matthew 27:46 

"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, "My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me?"

Inconceivable if he is God the Creator. This is strong evidence that Jesus is not God.

10. John 17:21-23 

21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."

In this prayer Jesus defines the term “to be one.” It is clearly accomplished through the relationship of two autonomous beings. Christian believers are to model their relationship (to become one) after the relationship of God and Christ (as God and Christ are one). Notice that “to be one” does not mean to be “one and the same.”

11. 1 Corinthians 15:27-28 

"27 For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28 When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who puts everything under him, so that God may be all in all."

Paul declares that God put everything under Christ, except God himself. Instead God rules all things through Christ. (remember: “through him all things were made.”)

12. Hebrews 1:3 

"3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins,he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven."

Jesus is the exact representation of his being. I sent my representative to Congress. He is not me, myself. He is my representative.

Bible Verses that Indicate that Jesus is not God the Creator part 3

13. Hebrews 4:15 (compared with James 1:13) 

"15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathise with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin."

Jesus has been tempted in every way, just as we are, yet he never sinned. 

See James 1:13: 

"13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil,neither tempteth he any man. 

Jesus was tempted in every way, but God cannot be tempted. This is why Jesus said, 

"Why do you call me good?" ... . No one is good--except God alone." (Mark 10: 18)

14. Hebrews 5:7-9 

"7 During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8 Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him."

Jesus had to walk a course of faith and obedience in order to achieve perfection. By achieving perfection, Jesus “became” the source of eternal salvation; i.e., he is not at all God, the Creator. He is a Messenger of God.

Bible Verses that Indicate that Jesus is not God the Creator part 4

Surely, Allah is my Lord and your Lord; so serve Him alone. This is the straight way.'

As with other Prophets, the fundamental points of Jesus' mission were the following:

(1) Man should acknowledge- the exclusive sovereignty of God which demands absolute service and obedience to Him, and Him alone. This principle serves as the basis for the entire structure of human morality and social behaviour.

(2) Man should obey the Prophets since they are the representatives of the true Sovereign.

(3) The Law which should regulate man's conduct by elaborating what is right and what is wrong should be none other than the Law of God. The laws devised by others should be abrogated. There is, thus, no difference between the missions of Jesus, Moses and Muhammad (peace be on them all). Those who think that the missions of the Prophets differ from one another and who believe that their objectives vary have fallen into serious error.

Bible Verses that Indicate that Jesus is not God the Creator part 5

Whoever is sent by the Lord of the Universe to His creatures can have no other purpose than to dissuade God's subjects from disobeying Him and assuming an attitude of vanity and disregard towards Him, and to admonish them against associating anyone with God in His divinity (that is, either holding anyone to be a partner with the Lord of the Universe in His Sovereignty or recognizing others beside God as having a rightful claim on part of man's loyalty, devotion and worship), and to invite them all to be loyal to, and to serve, obey and worship God alone.

It is unfortunate that the Gospels in their present form do not offer as clear a picture of the mission of Jesus as that presented by the Quran. Nevertheless, we find scattered throughout the Gospels all the three fundamentals mentioned above. The notion that man ought to submit himself totally to God is embodied in the following statement:

You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve' (Matthew 4: 10).

In addition, Jesus believed that the object of his efforts was that God's commands relating to the moral realm should be obeyed in this world in the sphere of human conduct just as His commands about the operation of the physical universe are obeyed in the heavens:

'Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done,

On earth as it is in heaven' (ibid., 6: 10).

Bible Verses that Indicate that Jesus is not God the Creator part 6

The fact that Jesus presented himself as a Prophet and a representative of the Kingdom of Heaven, and that in this capacity he asked people to follow him is borne out by several statements. When, for instance, he began his mission in Nazareth and when his own kith, kin and compatriots turned against him, he remarked: 'A prophet is not without honour except in his own country . . .' (Matthew 13: 57; see also Luke 4: 24 and Mark 6: 4). And when conspiracies were hatched in Jerusalem to put an end to his life, and people counselled him to go away, he replied: 'Nevertheless I must go on my way . . . for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem' (Luke 13: 33). When Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time the disciples cried with a loud voice: 'Blessed be the King who comes in the name of the Lord' (Luke 19: 38). This angered the Pharisees, who asked Jesus to rebuke his disciples. But he replied: 'I tell you, if these were silent the very stones would cry out' (ibid., 19: 40). On another occasion he said: 'Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light' (Matthew 11: 28-30).

Bible Verses that Indicate that Jesus is not God the Creator part 7

The fact that he invited people to obey the Laws of God rather than the laws made by man is evident from his response (found in both Matthew and Mark) to the objection raised by the Pharisees to the conduct of their disciples who ate with defiled hands, that is, without washing.

'Well did Isiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:

This people honour me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me;

in vain do they worship me,

teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'

And he said to them: 'You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. For Moses said, "Honour your father and your mother", and "He who speaks evil of his father or mother, let him surely die", but you say, "If a man tells his father or mother what you would have gained from me is Corban (that is, given to God), and then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on"' (Mark 7: 6-13; see also Matthew 15: 2-9).

Jesus’s status is lower than the angels

The Bible says that Jesus was lower than angels 

 

Hebrews 2:9 “But we do see him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus.”