Did Jesus Claim to Be God?

Did Jesus ever claim to be God? Did He ever use the words "I am God"? Though Jesus didn't use the exact words "I am God", that doesn't mean that He never said that He is God. One doesn't need to use the same framing of words to convey a message; the same message can be communicated in different compositions of sentences. For instance, note the following sentences which all convey the message, "I am employed."1. I work for a Company.2. My boss pays...

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Joy To The World The Lord Has Come!

The term "Christmas" is a compound of two words "Christ" and "Mass" (the celebration of Eucharist by the Catholic Church). Etymologically, the term refers to the celebration of mass on the anniversary of Christ's birth. Protestants usually refrain from looking at the Eucharist as another sacrifice and at the Bread and Wine as literally turning into Christ's body and blood. Therefore, they never use the word "mass" to refer to the Lord's Supper in...

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The Exclusivity of God - A Dialogue

“God is everywhere, God is in everything; therefore, everything is sacred, everything is God.”“Is God also in dung?”“No!”“Why?”“Because dung is unclean.”“But, then you said that God is in everything.”“But, how can God be in what is unclean?”“Why not?”“Because God is holy. Don’t we keep our holy places clean?”“Then, it means that there are certain things God is not present in.”“Yes.”“It means that God is not in everything, or everywhere.”“Yes.”“It also means that everything is not God.”“Yes.”“What about man? Can we say that the human spirit is God,...

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Death the Formidable Policeman

Death is a formidable policeman,Whose grip no mortal can evade;Whose grip has ripped apart the strongestIn the midst of their prideful parade.Men who had steel-like bodiesDied earlier than their own comrades;Death cares not for young or old,On each, equally, its shadow pervades.When Death brings God's summonsTo take one to the Final Court;Then it leaves one no optionsBut to submit and to report.Then Death snatches a man from himselfAnd rushes him...

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Drivers of Theologies

Systematic theologies usually begin either with Theology Proper (the Doctrine of God) or Bibliology (the Doctrine of Revelation). The Classical method (chiefly of the rationalists) was to begin with the doctrine of God, first by establishing the existence of God through some rational argumentation. On the other hand, the Fideist method held that theology didn’t need to begin with reason at all; theology began from the Bible, God’s self-revelation...

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The Problem of Evil As Evil

The Problem of Evil is not a problem at all unless “Good” and “Evil” are properly defined and meaningfully understood; or else, the problem cannot be raised.Given that meaning is usage, let’s look at what we usually do not absolutely consider to be the meaning of Good.Good is not painlessness. For, in our daily usage, it is commonly accepted that Good usually involves pain (e.g. in exercise, study, work). Good is not absence of grief or sorrow....

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