Duran,
I once had shoulder surgery and had to give ALL my strength, might and works to my left arm while my right arm was healing.
It really doesn't matter how he got it does it? That's not the point. As usual, heretics miss the clear and plain point of any scripture they don't like. Jesus has all power and authority in heaven and earth, that's what scripture says. You cannot change that scripture no matter how badly you want to. All means ALL.
By the way, do you have a problem allowing an angel into your being? In other words, are you willing to allow an angel to posess you? Because, according to WT theology, that's what it will take to get saved. - "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ HE IS NONE OF HIS".
My Father and I are one.”
31 Again the Jews took up stones to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”
33 The Jews answered Him, “We are not stoning You for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, claim to be God.”
Everyone there understood Jesus was claiming to be God here. He did other things to prove he was God too, you know - little things, like raise himself from the dead, while he was dead.
He forgave people's sins, somethiong ONLY GOD can do. When questioned about this seeming blasphemous declaration, he asked a simple question; "which is easier to do, forgive somone's sins or tell this lame man here to get up and walk? It really was useless to question Jesus' Godship when talking to him. He'd just do another "impossible" miracle if you did. It must have been remarkable to see him in action, in the flesh.
In other words, just running around declaring you are God would do nothing. Lots of people have done that over the years. But, Jesus did things ONLY God could do. That's why Jesus is declared in scripture to be "God manifest in the flesh" (KJV, MEV, NKJV, LITV) as recorded in the vast majority of ancient bible manuscripts.
Here's some of the early Christian leaders, some trained directly by an apostle that quoted this verse and referred to Jesus as "God manifest in the flesh":
1 Timothy 3:16 as cited by Church Fathers
- John William Burgon (1813 - 1888)
- The Greek text
- Ignatius (ca 50 - between 98 and 117
- Dionysius of Alexandria (ca. 190 - 265 AD)
- Didymus of Alexandria or Didymus the Blind (c. 309/314 - 398)
- Diodorus of Tarsus (- 392)
- Gregory of Nazianzus (c 325 - 389)
- Gregory of Nyssa (c 335 – probably 395)
- John Chrysostom (c. 347 - 407)
- Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 - 444)
- Theodoret of Cyrus (c. 393 – c. 460)
- Unknown author (430)
- Unknown author, 5th century
- Euthalius (5th century)
- Conclusion
