Posted by At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe.
“The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me, but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came — and Scripture cannot be broken — do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming’, because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
“If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” And many believed in him there.
From the Gospel according to John.
From the writings contained in the New Testament it is abundantly clear that Jesus claimed to be the Son of God. The only question spiritual seekers face is whether or not to believe this claim. The implications, if Jesus was telling the truth, are profoundly important — a matter of eternal destiny.
I enjoy your postings. Although I am a Polytheist, I find your writing on theology to spark my own thinking. Few people question the way you do, and offer food for thought.
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Thanks Virginia! I’m grateful for your visits to the blog. Glad to give you food for thought 😊
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I’m not Christian either, but Steven’s earnestness is very compelling.
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Cheers David. I love having you around these parts! 😊
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Steven,
The term “Son of God” must be understood in light of biblical usage. I believe a biblical understanding is trinitarian, but western theology and philosophy has sometimes been – how can I say this? – less than biblical in its approach and language. A good biblical commentary on this can be found in N.T. Wright’s “Simply Jesus.”
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I actually reviewed that book on this here blog many moons ago 😊
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