Who Is God?
Isaiah 48:13, Gen.1:1 states: “My own hand laid the
foundations of the earth, and my right hand spread out the
heavens.” Also, Isaiah 42:8 states: “I am the Lord; that is my
name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.”
Further, Isaiah 46:9, 44:6 state: “God said, ‘Thus saith the LORD
the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the
first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. Remember
the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am
God, and there is none like me.’”
God says in all these verses that He is the Creator of
everything. God is the only One who can give and take life away.
God is the only One who can raise the dead, and He is the only
Savior. Deuteronomy 32:39-40 and Isaiah 43:11 both state that all
worship is due to God alone. According to Deuteronomy 6:13 and
Isaiah 45:5,6-14, no one’s eyes had ever or can ever see God. John
1:18 says neither can we imagine nor conceptualize God. In
Matthew 23:9, it is stated that “no man is your father; [there is]
only the one in heaven”.
Based on that, why do some people consider Jesus to be God?
God Himself said in the Bible, “No one has seen Me before, nor
can anyone ever see Me, and no one can conceptualize God.” And
in the case of Jesus, people saw Jesus. They touched him, ate with
him, and lived with him for 33 years on Earth before he died on
the cross.
We know God created the place (the universe), and He created
time. That means God can’t be described by a specific place like
Jerusalem, because He is not in one area, like Jerusalem. Also,
God is not only in a certain time era, like B.C. (“before Christ”)
or A.D. (“after Christ”), because that would mean His existence
would be limited to this period only and that He had not existed
either before and/or after that. It would mean that He vanished or
died. This is the case with Jesus. He was described as “Jesus of
Nazareth”. His birth marks the beginning of the A.D. calendar;
thus, Jesus did not exist in the era of “B.C.,” nor was he important
at that time for the creation and functions of the universe. God is
the most prominent Power. He is the Cause of all beings (the
universe and everything in it). God is the most dominant, infinite,
invisible, inconspicuous, and authoritative of the continual
universe functions. Without His power, the universe would
collapse.
How can some people keep saying that Jesus is God, Jesus
died for three days, and then he rose from his death? Birth and
death are human characteristics. Upon birth, actions start, and
upon death, everything ceases and stops. This would be
considered a weakness of God and would reveal Him to be
powerless in His inability to be the Sustainer for everything. It
would show His weakness and disability. If Jesus is God and he
died, who helped him to come out from his death and return back
to life after three days? If this happened, this entity — this other
God — who gave the power to Jesus to come back to life is more
important than Jesus himself and is, as such, an undefeatable
Sustainer more so than Jesus.
In another scenario, maybe Jesus gave life back to himself. If
this is the case, then why didn’t he save himself from the Jewish
soldiers who punished him, tortured him, whipped him, and made
him cry and drag his own cross all over Jerusalem, ultimately
crucifying him on the cross and spearing him to death? If he is
God, why did he not save himself from all this humiliation and
embarrassment in front of his apostles and followers? God rules
the world and is the Creator of all humans. God can’t be touched
or mistreated by anyone, such as Jewish soldiers.
We know that the crucifixion is stated in the Bible. If this
happened to God, why do we have to worship a defeated God? In
the crucifixion, it shows that the Jewish soldiers had victory over
Jesus (God). If we have a choice to worship some kind of God,
why do we have to choose a defeated God who was overpowered
by Jewish soldiers? The crucifixion shows that Jesus was
powerless and helpless because he was defeated by the power of
the Jewish soldiers. With this, it becomes obvious that we are
worshipping a defeated and powerless entity. If Jesus was unable
to help himself during the torture and crucifixion, then how is he
able to help us and judge us by rewarding us with going to heaven
or punishing us by hell fire? The Jewish people who tortured him
and crucified him should be the first to receive God’s punishment.
Why did Jesus — or God, as some people believe — delay his
punishment on the soldiers at the time of his crucifixion? He could
have prevented his death in order to show victory to his followers
and to all humanity to come. At least he could have protected
himself from their harm. Jesus should have had no reason to hide
on the night of the crucifixion and weep, asking God to help him.
He asked God “to let this cup pass by. Oh God, why does it have
to be me? Why have you forsaken me?” His tears fell on the
ground by his feet.
In the Book of Isaiah 40:28, it states: “That hast thou not
known? Hast thou not hand, that the everlasting God, the Lord,
the Creator of the earth fainted not neither is weary. There is no
searching of His understanding.” This verse clearly states that God
created the entire universe and Earth without getting tired or
exhausted. With this unimaginable power and tremendous ability
to create the Earth, how could God have been overpowered by
Jewish soldiers who were created by the same God who created
the Earth without becoming tired? In the crucifixion, it shows that
Jesus was totally exhausted. He was over-burdened by carrying
his own cross. He had been whipped to get up and carry the cross
again and again to his crucifixion place. If he were God, why did
he not know what they were going to do to him? If he had known,
he could have supplied himself with extra power to defeat them.
He could have had more power to not be exhausted when carrying
his own cross, which couldn’t have been more than 200 pounds in
weight. If he is God — who created the entire Earth, sun, and stars
— he wouldn’t be carrying his own wooden cross. And all of this
for what? To be killed on the cross and just to die, letting all his
creations go? God is so powerful and the Sustainer of all things.
He is the first and the last, and there is no God besides him. I just
can’t see how God would be dying on the cross because of any
human being. It doesn’t sound right even to say it. This is a
degrading statement to the divineness of the Almighty God, the
Creator of all humans and animals, etc.
Some Christian scholars say Jesus is the son of God. If this is
true, Jesus may be His son spiritually, by His placing the Holy
Spirit into the Virgin Mary’s womb, causing her to become
pregnant. If this is the case, Adam is the first creation of God. God
made Adam out of clay and placed some of the Holy Spirit in him,
and Adam became a human being. Thus, Adam is the first son of
God. If this is the case, you and I should also be the children of
God, because we are made out of the Holy Spirit and flesh.
Without the Holy Spirit, our bodies would die, our flesh would
deteriorate and decay, and we would have to be buried before we
became a nuisance to living people.
God stated in the Bible that we are all the children of God, and
God is our Father. Therefore, there is no difference in our
relationship to God than that of the Jewish people or Christian
people. In fact, Jesus was Jewish, and he stated that he came for
the people of Israel only. God has no special preference for one
human being over another. All human beings are created equally
by God, and He loves all equivalently.
We all must acknowledge that there was a special, miraculous
way Jesus was created. If you go back in history and see how God
created Adam, we find that He made him with no need of a father
or mother. He made Eve from a part of a man (a rib), and there
was no need for a female to create Eve. Jesus’ creation is just
another miracle from God in that way. Here, God is demonstrating
to us that He is capable of creating anything from nothing, if He
so wants. If anyone deserves to be called God’s son, it should be
Adam as well as Eve. They were created before Jesus and David.
God said in the Book of Psalms 2:7, to David, “You are my
first son.” Why did God not make this statement to describe Jesus?
In the New Testament, in John 14:9, God said about Jesus:
“You’re my only begotten son.” Now, we must stop and think
because these two statements are clear and in black and white in
most of the bibles existing today. Are both of them true? It’s
impossible, because they contradict each other. If the first
statement was to King David, which was about 1,000 years before
Jesus was created, then why did God say 1,000 years later to Jesus
that he was the only begotten son? Is God forgetting that He
already had a son named David? Or did God disown King David
and all of His creations in the Books of Psalms and Deuteronomy
2:7 (which is an essential part of the Old Testament)? How can
people consider Jesus to be God just begotten 2,000 years ago?
The true God existed before, and He is the most infinite. In reality,
God gave the same title of “son” to many prophets, and they are
mentioned in the Bible. Since this possibility is not true and does
not make sense, then we must move on to the second possibility
that some scholars may assert.
Since Jesus has no father genetically, some clergy related God
to the Virgin Mary. That means God and Mary mated together to
produce a child named Jesus. This means that Jesus carried the
genes of God in his DNA, as well as the human genes from Mary.
By today’s science and logic, it leads us to believe that this is
fictional and the most impossible probability, because God and
Mary would not have compatible genes with the same structures.
The DNA would be totally different. Just like you can’t cross a
chicken with a human being, the genes in this scenario would not
be compatible at all. The genes of the dominant partner, God,
would be overpowering to the recessive genes from the other
partner (Mary, in this case). (This is not a true example at all
because we can’t downgrade God’s characteristics.) The genes of
God would overpower and suppress Mary’s genes, and the child
would become immensely powerful by having God’s
characteristics. Jesus would not have taken the shape of a human
being at all, nor could he have eaten like us, drank water like us,
or wept like us and asked God for a miracle to give life back to his
companion, Lazarus, when he died. In fact, if Jesus is God, why
did he let his best friend die and let himself be crucified on the
cross?
To prove that this theory that “God copulated with Mary” has
no merit at all, we know with science that for any fetus to be
formed, it has to have two chromosomes — an X from the father
and a Y from the mother. This means that baby Jesus, in his
genetic structure, should have had the X and Y chromosomes, the
the X from God and Y from Mary. Since God’s chromosome
would be dominant and powerful over all, this means Jesus should
have had the characteristics of God, which would mean that Jesus
would never have aged, experienced fear, wept, cried, worried,
ate, excreted human waste, etc. We know that Jesus was born,
aged, and died at the age of 33. He prayed to God. These are all
characteristics of a human being. We know that when Jesus was
alive, he was praying to God all of the time. If he was God, he
would never have to pray to himself. God never experiences fear
or cries. He doesn’t need to plead or request things from himself.
I think it’s more honorable to Jesus and to God, as well as being
easier to understand, that Jesus’ birth is just another miracle. You
don’t need God to be married and to have sex with Mary to have
a baby. The creation of the sun, stars, and Earth is more
sophisticated, comprehensive, multifarious, and complex by far
than the creation of all human beings.
In conclusion, if Jesus was God, he shouldn’t have lost the
battle against the Jewish people. Thus, why do we seek a losing
God? If he can’t help himself against a few Jews, how he can help
us? If he was the son of God then, where was his Father at the time
of his pain, agony, torture, and crucifixion by the Jews? If the son
of the president of any country had been kidnapped by another
country, this country would declare war and prevent harm to the
president’s son. We see that over and over. If any one citizen is
detained unjustly by a foreign country, the government of his or
her country will intervene to free the citizen. This theory of Jesus
as the son of God doesn’t make any sense, nor can it be
comprehended at all.
Some Christian scholars say Jesus is God, and he came in the
form of a human being and died for our sins. This is not in the
Bible at all, nor has it been mentioned directly or indirectly by any
means. If this were the case, why would God have to convert
himself into a human being, be humiliated and tortured, and get
placed on the cross by soldiers in order for us to be forgiven? Why
didn’t He just say, “I forgive all people, regardless of whether
they’re sinful or not sinful.” God stated many times in the Bible
that He is forgiving and merciful, and He is the One granting
people entry into heaven. Why would God have to go through all
those humiliations and trouble to forgive us? To Him, forgiveness
is just a word of His own choosing. He wants it to be, and it will
be. God has no need to sacrifice anybody, regardless of whether
it’s his son or not. God said to the light, “Let it be,” and it was.
With all that has been said, we all should believe in one God,
the Creator of the entire universe, and all of His prophets,
including Jesus, as well as all the Holy Books, the Old Testament
(the Torah), and the New Testament (the Ingeel). We should
become God-believers in His Oneness. Unity and peace would be
shared among all different Christian denominations, and there
would be no difference between Catholics, Protestants, Jehovahs,
or Mormons. The same would be true between all Christian and
Jewish people, and no one could ever label people anymore by
calling them Christians, Catholics, or Jews. If the Jewish people
claim they are God’s chosen people, then you are from them, and
if the Christian people say they are the only ones to be saved, you
are among them. This is the most visible, logical, comprehensible,
and natural holy concept from God, which all the prior prophets
tried to share for thousands of years. With this, peace would cover
the Earth. The animosity between Christians and Jews would be
stopped, and discrimination among Catholics and Orthodox
people would never exist. No church would ever think it was the
only one to reside in heaven, with the rest of the world going to
hell fire. Peace and harmony would flood the world, and everyone
would go to heaven.
We all should have that in our minds and hearts, as we all need
to announce the oath with God by saying, “I believe there is no
God but God, and I do believe in all His prophets and all His Holy
Books.” And then all of us would be together in believing in the
Oneness of God.
