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Who Is Jesus? By Anthony F. Buzzard

Who Is Jesus? By Anthony F. Buzzard

The suggestion that Jesus is not, according to the Bible, “very God of very God” is likely to prove startling to those accustomed to the widely held views of the major denominations. It is not generally known that many students of the Bible throughout the ages, including a considerable number of contemporary scholars, have not concluded that Scripture describes Jesus as “God” with a capital “G.”

A difference of opinion on such a fundamental issue should challenge all of us to an examination of the important question of Jesus’ identity. If our worship is to be, as the Bible demands, “in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24), it is clear that we will want to understand what the Bible discloses about Jesus and his relationship to his Father. Scripture warns us that it is possible to fall into the trap of believing in “another Jesus” (2 Cor. 11:4)—a “Jesus” other than the one revealed in the Bible as God’s Son, the Messiah promised by the prophets of the Old Testament. It is a striking fact that Jesus never referred to himself as “God.” Equally remarkable is the New Testament’s use of the word “God”—in Greek ho theos—to refer to the Father alone, some 1325 times. In sharp contrast, Jesus is called “god” in a handful of texts only—perhaps no more than two. Why this impressive difference in New Testament usage, when so many seem to think that Jesus is no less “God” than his Father?

Who Is Jesus?

A Plea for a Return to Belief in Jesus,the Messiah
A study booklet to further the restoration of biblical faith
by
Anthony F. Buzzard, MA (Oxon.), MA Th.
“There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5).

Restoration Fellowship www.restorationfellowship.org http://bit.ly/2MprjjZ

Contents

  1. Old Testament Monotheism Confirmed by Jesus and Paul ……
  2. Whoever Said the Messiah Was God?……………………………….
  3. The Son of God………………………………………………………………
  4. The Son of Man, the Lord at God’s Right Hand………………….
  5. Jesus Claimed NOT to Be God…………………………………………
  6. John’s Jewish Language…………………………………………………..
  7. Glory Before Abraham…………………………………………………….
  8. The Logos in John 1:1……………………………………………………..
  9. The “Divinity” of Jesus……………………………………………………
  10. In the Form of God………………………………………………………….
  11. Head of the New Creation………………………………………………..
  12. “The Inhabited Earth to Come of Which We Speak”…………..
  13. The Hebrew Background to the New Testament…………………
  14. From Son of God to God the Son………………………………………
  15. The Man and the Message Obscured………………………………….
  16. What the Scholars Admit………………………………………………….
  17. Jesus, the Man and Mediator……………………………………………
  18. The Church’s Confession………………………………………………..
  19. Appendix……………………………………………………………………….
  20. Endnotes………………………………………………………………………..
  21. Scripture Index ……………………………………………………………….
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