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I think I am coming to the end of myself.  I am grateful for what God has done in my life, but I’m stuck.  A strength taken to an extreme is a weakness.  God has shown me that I need to stop thinking I can think my way out of any and all problems.  I have to give up relying on me.  And trust Him.  I think this is going to be scary.

 

The more I have invested in a way of thinking, the more it takes to change my thinking about it. I believed I was not a sinner. It took 10 years of horrific psychic pain to change my mind. Now I know my own depravity, the evil I am capable of.

I once did not believe Jesus is God. Is there enough evidence for me to change my mind?

Jesus predicted his own death and resurrection, and he did it!

Jesus told the religious leaders exactly when they would know Jesus is God (When he is “lifted up.”)

When Thomas holds Jesus, after Jesus’ resurrection, Thomas refers to Jesus as God, and Jesus does not stop him; Jesus accepts Thomas’ worship of Himself as God.

The blind man, whose eyes were opened, worshipped Jesus and Jesus accepted the worship as God.

Jesus used God’s own name of God (I AM) for Jesus:
John 8:58 NASB95
58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”
Jesus is using God’s name for God to refer to himself as God. “I am” or “εἰμί” in Greek is found in Exodus 3:14 as “ehyeh” the Hebrew equivalent. Jesus is saying of himself, in my opinion, “I AM WHO I AM” or “I am the Father.”

Jesus also said, “I and the Father are one” or “one essence.” John 10:30 NASB95.

Jesus claims to have existed before he himself was born.

The “Word” (Logos or Jesus) was God. John 1:1. John calls Jesus God.

All that was created came through Him. John 1:3 Obviously, He did not create himself.  Therefore, he could not have been created.

That’s all I can think of right now. I invite you to contribute.
Please help me out by giving me more examples in the Comments.

Also, is there anything in the Bible that says Jesus is not God? Please let me know that too, in the Comments.

Thank you!

Jesus’ perspective on being the head
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English Standard Version Chapter 20
25 But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 26 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Connecting how Jesus is the head of the Church;
And how He wants the husband to be the head of his wife

The Bible says that the husband is the “head” of the wife (the “first” in the two-party relationship) just as Christ is the head of the Church. The Bible says that wives are to “submit” to their husbands “as to the Lord.”

Some read this as husbands are to be in charge; the husband calls the shots and his wife should sit there quietly and look pretty. Let’s examine what the Bible REALLY says about this by the husband as head doing what Jesus as head is doing.

• Jesus clearly says that “lording it over his wife” (25) is not to be done among followers of Him (26).
• The husband who wants to fulfill the role of being the head – the first in the relationship – “must be his wife’s slave” (27).
• Just as Jesus came to serve and not be served so the husband must serve his wife; giving up his wants, his needs, his life, in order to serve the best interest of his wife (28).

The husband’s authority begins and ends in serving the best interest of his wife. She definitely does not have to submit to abuse, or be treated as second-class or inferior. God made THEM male and female, equally in the image of God. The current use of the Bible, by some, to subjugate wives, is proving you do not understand Jesus or the Bible.

The wife’s responsibility is to respect her husband, not because he deserves it, but because he NEEDS it to function the way God designed him. Her submission to her husband is, in fact, her submitting to him giving her what is in her best interest. And if there is a track record of the husband sacrificially serving his wife’s best interest, she most likely will gladly submit.

The first part of this essay is at:

https://i-m-4-u.com/2018/06/01/is-jesus-a-feminist/