Why was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart, for heart-thoughts are best. Was it not that He might be able to be our brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood? Oh, what relationship there is between Christ and the believer! The believer can say, "I have a Brother in heaven; I may be poor, but I have a Brother who is rich, and is a King, and will He suffer me to want while He is on His throne? Oh, no! He loves me; He is my Brother." Believer, wear this blessed thought, like a necklace of diamonds, around the neck of thy memory; put it, as a golden ring, on the finger of recollection, and use it as the King's own seal, stamping the petitions of thy faith with confidence of success. He is a brother born for adversity, treat Him as such.
Christ was also chosen out of the people that He might know our wants and sympathize with us. "He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin." In all our sorrows we have His sympathy. Temptation, pain, disappointment, weakness, weariness, poverty-He knows them all, for He has felt all. Remember this, Christian, and let it comfort thee. However difficult and painful thy road, it is marked by the footsteps of thy Saviour; and even when thou reachest the dark valley of the shadow of death, and the deep waters of the swelling Jordan, thou wilt find His footprints there. In all places whithersoever we go, He has been our forerunner; each burden we have to carry, has once been laid on the shoulders of Immanuel.
"His way was much rougher and darker than mine
Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?"
Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road, and
consecrated the thorny path for ever.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I recently had an epiphany about The Christ: The Heavenly Father we know, His firstborn Son Jehovah created all things and inspired the prophets of old. His Firstborn Son took on human flesh: The Christ who, at Gethsemane and Golgotha, fulfilled those prophesies and made ALL things new.
Hebrews 2:14
King James Version
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Amen
That is not supported by the Bible.
Jesus Christ is not God. He is the Son of God.
God is spirit and no man hath seen Him at any time.
There are many more verses that tell us who God is and who His Son is.
The incarnate Son of God was truly and fully man and truly and fully God. ... John writes:
1 John 5:20
King James Version
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Add to that the reference Revelation 21:6-7 ""’I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, 'who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty" (Revelation 1:8). "He said to me, 'It is done.
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
To presume to know the full extent of the powers of God without considering the triune of the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit-all One and the Christ intercedes with the Father and the Holy Spirit acts as the Voice of God, is the struggle I had for a long time. My post above is my solution for with ALL things God can do wonders.
Of course Christ could still the waters, bring back the dead AND feed the 1,000s; He IS the Creator..
386 AD, Niceness creed. Not one mention of the trinity before then historically or in the Bible. It's all Babylonian.
Even Jesus says things that mean that he is definitely not God.
Such as not by my will Father, but let it be yours"
Indicating that Jesus and God have separate wills
"No one knows except the father, not even the son"
Loads of things like that. And. Things that indicate a hierarchy that God above himself.
He never says "I am God"
Note that Jesus was the example and the ransom for missing the mark. We are to be Christ like but can be forgiven if we mess up. At the time it was written that Man was God, and claiming to be the Son of God would be claiming to be the Son of Man it works in reverse as well. "Is it not written that ye are Gods"
Jesus was also said to have been given Judgement from the Father, which he returns to the Father, who will return it to Jesus. Cyclical, imo anyway.