Jesus is GOD
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One can debunk God (Father) and Jesus (Son) being one entity in Matthew 24:36 speaking of who knows when the 'End of Days' will begin:
“But about that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."
If they are literally one existence for one part of an entity to not know what the other knows would be impossible. Also 'Father why have thou forsaken me' (Matthew 27:46) would make zero sense. Who exactly would he be crying out to in pain..
Go to Philippians 2:5-8 and read of the 'Kenosis', or the emptying that Jesus did to become man. As part of the incarnation, He took on humanity, while not displaying all of His Godly attributes. One example is at the transfiguration where Jesus reveals His glory, which had been hidden. As for Matt 27:46, when Jesus was on the cross, and God the Father placed on God the Son the sins of all who would believe, God the Father was could not look at God the Son who had become sin for us 2 Cor 5:21 and Habakkuk 1:13.
Truly, the Son of Man.
Jesus had two natures. One fully man (in which case he didn’t know some things and grew in stature and knowledge), the other fully God. The God Man. The hypostatic union.
Must remember his two natures when considering passages like this.
To create a baby, the mother contributes a full set of chromosomes.The father contributes another full set. To form one cell for life to begin, it takes 2 sets. Mary contributed the human chromosomes, but God contributed the divine chromosomes (man was created in His image and likeness so this wasn't cross speciation). The complete cell therefore was both human and divine. The human is the "child born to us." The divine is the "Son given to us in Isaiah 9:6." The Son is the Word who was in the beginning, was with God and was God (Jn. 1:1). That's why He is called "Mighty God." He is called "eternal Father" because you can't have a son without a father. God is the eternally begetting Father who is distinct but not separate from the eternally begotten Son. By the time Jesus was 12, He knew who He was, but as a human who began as a baby, He was not omniscient. He was limited in time and space until after His resurrection.He learned who He was through what His mother told Him, and what He learned from Scripture through the shepherding of His Father.
Good questions.
They are separate persons that share the same essence/nature. Difference in roles, but holding the same office.
Yes, it was difficult for early Jews to understand who Jesus was, even his family. Even Jesus said “a prophet has no honor in his hometown.”
God was progressively revealing himself at the time in the flesh (Messiah), which was foretold in Hebrew prophecy, but the Jews still had a hard time reconciling what they were seeing with Jesus. More miracles (revelation) were needed.
Honest questions, do we all have blood, water and a spirit? Are they all not me? Do they all have their own purpose? Can blood do what water does or spirit, etc...? Is it all still one me?
1 John 5:7-8 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.