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Number 10, the first reason, and we're
going to try to go in a descending
order, top 10 reasons, working our way
to the number one most important reason.
The first reason, beginning at the
beginning, that Jesus cannot be God. And
the reason why we are going over this
topic is because it's an issue of
salvation. We want everyone to be saved.
And this issue is a very important issue
for Christians, Muslims, Jews. Why Jesus
cannot be God. The first number one
reason is that God cannot be born. God
did not come into existence. He's always
existed. He did not come into existence
from non-existence. He was not born. He
was not created. He has always been
before there was even a thing called
time. And we as we all know Jesus Christ
peace be upon him was born. He was born
without a father. Yes indeed that was
one of his true miracles. But he was
indeed born. He was in the womb for 9
months and he was born. So that by its
very nature shows that he does not have
the same quality and characteristics
that God has. God cannot be born. Jesus
was born. So those two people cannot be
one and the
same. Now God when he speaks of things
when he talks of his own characteristics
and who he is he is very very explicit.
For instance in in Isaiah 46 and9 G uh
God says that I am God and then there
there is none else. I am God and there
is none like me. you uh also the verses
that Jesus quoted. He said, "Here, O
Israel," which is one that is quoted in
the Jewish synagogues every uh every
time they have service. Here, O Israel,
the Lord our God is but one God and then
there is none else. And we all know the
verses. You can go through the Old
Testament and read about God's
characteristics when he describes
himself. It is always explicit. Now,
there are some verses in the New
Testament which can be implicitly
interpreted as Jesus having claimed some
type of divinity. But if that was such a
big characteristic, if it was such a big
deal that Jesus was God, if this was the
way to salvation, that he was God in the
flesh come to sacrifice himself for the
sins of humanity, then that is something
God would have been explicit about
because it is an issue of salvation. God
does not beat around the bush about
these type of issues when it comes to
who he is. He is very clear with the
children of Israel. I am God. There's
none like me. Do not worship anything
else. Period. And Jesus came and quoted
the same very verses. So if it would
have been an issue of salvation that he
was God, he would have very clearly
stated, "I am God. I am God." He would
not have told the the Jews when they
said that you call yourself God. He
said, "You say that I am." He would have
very clearly said, "Yes, I am God and
I'm here to save you from your sins." He
never stated that in anywhere and it's
never referenced in any scriptural text
of any religion whatsoever. So
therefore, if God is so explicit about
his nature, why when it comes to him
becoming a man, why did he not
explicitly state
so? The Bible says by God's own word
that no one has ever seen God at any
time. This is very clear in John 1:18.
It says, "No man has seen God at any
time." In 1 John, no man has seen God at
any time. Even Jesus's own statement in
John 5:37, Jesus says, "And the father
himself which has sent me hath borne
witness of me, and you have neither
heard his voice nor seen his face at any
time." And Jesus was standing right
there amongst them. So had he been God,
why would he say, "You have never seen
God at any time." You understand? This
is what I'm talking about. This is
clear-cut. You have never seen God. If
he would have been God, he would have
said, "You're looking at God right now.
You want to see God, look at me. You
have seen him." And there are some
verses in the Bible someone can
reiterate and say okay we said anyone
who has seen me has seen the father you
know if you've seen the father then you
if you've seen me then you've seen the
father or you know I and the father are
one you know and when you but if you
read the context of those verses rather
than just taking a sentence out if you
read the context of four or five
different verses you will see that he
was speaking of being one in purpose
even in the one where he said I and the
father are one he was speaking about
just as no one can pluck the children of
god out of god's hand no one can pluck
them out of my hand cuz I and I Father
are one meaning that we are one in
purpose. We have the same exact mission.
I am coming as God's message bearer to
humanity. We are one and the same in in
what we want from you. I am God's
representative. Anything that he wants
is my will. So if you understand them in
that light explicitly then you
understand that Jesus said no man have
seen God at any time and this is also in
the Quran. Moses asked to see God in the
Quran and he said look at the mountain.
If the mountain can see me then you if
can bear my my sight then you can see
me. And we know that when God showed
himself to the mountain, it crumbled
into pieces. And then Moses repented and
said, "I'm sorry." God is not something
that can come in a form of a human
being. I mean, you cannot contain God's
essence inside of a physical form. That
is to lessen God beyond extent to put
him inside of a physical form. He's too
great to be put in any form, in any
diameters, in any parameters, in any
dimensions, any box. You can't put God
inside a box.
This concept was not taught by Jesus or
his disciples. Nor was it a believed in
by his followers of the early followers
of Christianity. As we see when when
they found the Dead Sea skulls in Kuman,
we see that the early Christians were
still a part of Judaism. For instance,
when if you read the book of Acts when
Jesus Christ had had departed from this
earth, the the disciples still daily
attended the synagogue. They still daily
went to the temple at Jerusalem and
worshiped as the Jews worshiped because
this is what Jesus Christ brought. He
brought the renewal of the laws of
Moses. So if the disciples were running
around teaching people that Jesus was
God, they would have been banished out
of the temple the day they walked in or
they would have started their own
church. But no, neither did Jesus. Jesus
went to the temple himself. He did not
build his own church anywhere and say
worship me. He went to the temple and
worshiped God in the same way that Moses
worshiped God. the same way that Abraham
worshiped God, the same way that David
worshiped God, the same way that
Zachchariah worshiped God. You know, he
did the exact same thing. And his
disciples followed him. And if you look
at the first 2 century Christians, they
did the same thing. The the the the
people of Kuman, the first and simple
who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, they
were also a part of Judaism. They
considered themselves Judais uh
practicing Jews who followed Jesus as
their prophet. So we see that nothing
had changed. This whole concept of
trinity did not come about until the 3rd
century of the church and it was not
formulated as a doctrine that must be
believed in until 325 AD at the council
of Nika when um all of the bishops and
the and the and the scholars of
Christianity what started to form into
Christianity after Paul came together
and said okay this is a doctrine that we
must believe in and the first person to
expound this doctrine was Paul who never
saw Jesus Christ himself never walked
with him never talked to him never saw
him never ate with him never learned
from him it was something that he formed
formulated off a vision that he said he
had while he was on the road to Damascus
to actually persecute Christians. So
this was he was the first person to ever
come up with this title of Christian,
ever come up with this title of trinity,
ever come up with the godship of Jesus
Christ or only begotten son. All of
these things came with Paul the
Apostle. Jesus ate, slept, and prayed.
He ate, slept, and prayed. And we know
God by his very nature is
self-sufficient. He does not need
anything to continue his existence. God
does not need to eat. God does not need
to sleep. God does not need to pray. God
is not in need of anything because if he
was in need of something, then he would
not be God. He would need something else
other than himself to exist. That would
therefore would not make him that would
take away his godship. And we know that
Jesus Christ was born. We know that he
ate. We know that he slept. And we know
that he prayed. Had he not ate, slept,
or drank any water, he would have died.
Therefore, he was not self-sufficient.
He needed something to continue his
existence. Therefore, by his very nature
of not being self-sufficient and God
being self-sufficient, those two things
can't mix. You can't be self-sufficient
and not self-sufficient all at the same
time. And then Jesus prayed. He was in
need of prayer. Anytime he had an issue,
he would pray. He would tell the
disciples, "I need to go pray. Wait here
while I pray. Wait here while I pray."
He would go to the temple, pray,
prostrating on his face on the ground.
This in his very nature showed that he
was in need of something greater than
himself. Because that is the essence of
prayer. It's showing that you're in need
of someone who is greater than you. Even
people who worship idols, they believe
that idol is greater than them.
Therefore, they pray to it. So if Jesus
was God, who why was the need of his
prayer? He would have been telling
people to pray to him. You need my you
need to pray to me. I don't need to pray
to anyone. So therefore, by his very
nature of necessity, of him being in
need of something else, he cannot be
God.
Number five reason is that Jesus claimed
that God's knowledge was greater than
his. When he was asked about the hour,
the day of judgment, he said, "Of that
day knoweth no man, nor the angels is in
heaven, nor nor the the the son, but
only the father has knowledge of that
hour." So if he would have been God, he
would have known that. How could God if
the Trinity was indeed true and God was
God, Jesus was God, the Holy Spirit was
God? They're all the same person. That
means that how does one not know the
same information that the other one
knows if they are the same person? If
God knows the hour, Jesus should know
the hour. The Holy Spirit should know
the hour. They should have all known
that thing. But even Jesus said in
another verse in John 14:28, he said,
"The Father is greater than I." He
admitted, "The Father is greater than
I." So if they are equals, how can one
be greater than the other? If they are
both indeed God, how could one be
greater than the other? So, showing that
Jesus did not have the exact same
knowledge that God has, how could he be
God? You see, these are statements that
are very explicit. And if you weigh all
of these statements against the
ambiguous ones, which ones are going to
weigh out more point blank explicit to
the point statements or statements that
could be interpreted this way, that way
by anyone who walks and wants to give
them an interpretation, these cannot be
interpreted any other way than Jesus was
not God. he was something less than
God. Number four is that Jesus
explicitly states that he is not God.
Now we think that Jesus implicitly
states that he is God. There are some
ambiguous verses but what about where he
explicitly states that he is not God.
For instance in John 17 and3 he said and
this is life eternal. This is the way to
eternal life that they may know you the
one true God, one true God and Jesus
Christ whom you have sent as a
messenger. He said this is the in a
nutshell what I have come to teach that
they may know you the only true God and
Jesus Christ whom you have sent. And
anyone who is a Muslim that statement
makes very very very good sense because
it's even a part of our faith where you
would say Muhammad
rasoolah which means that there is no
god but one god Muhammad is his
messenger and Jesus is his messenger
which means they are ones who were sent
and that's the ten of our faith to
believe in the one true god and Jesus
Christ who was sent very simple very
explicit and then also he told uh when
after he was uh in in the bible when he
ascended to god he told he told them he
said Jesus saith unto her speaking to
Mary Magdalene I ascend unto my father
and your father my god and your god he
very clearly equated her god and his god
as being the one and same god. He didn't
say I'm going to ascend to
myself and to your god and to me. You
know these this this doesn't make any
sense. If even if somebody would have
said that you would this man is a fool
and a half. If he's saying I'm going to
ascend into myself. Your god is me and
I'm going to myself and you know all of
these things are not but he very very
clearly stated the one true god and I am
ascending to my god and your god. Point
blank clear. Those things can't get any
more
simple. Number three is that even when
you get to the title son of God, even
when you get the title only begotten son
of God, this is not an exclusive title
to Jesus Christ, which many people
think. There are many, many, many, many
instances where the word son of God is
used. And if anyone would study Jewish
culture, especially ancient Jewish
culture orthodox Jewish culture, to be
called a son of God is as a title of
esteem and a title of prestige and
honor. Even being called Lord, someone
would come to their rabbi and they would
refer to him as my lord. This is
something that is known by wester uh by
Eastern Europeans also they refer to
people as Lord. So this title is not
exclusive in Jacob and and Solomon and
Exodus are called sons of God. Ephraim
and Jeremiah, Adam is called son of God.
In the New Testament, common people are
called sons of God in the new and old
testament. So these are not something
that is an exclusive title as son of
God. And I had a I had a discussion with
a uh pastor about this. He said, "Yes,
but Jesus was the only begotten son of
God." And I said, "Okay, what gives him
that exclusive title? What is the
characteristic that gives him that
exclusive title?" He says, "The New
Testament says that." Yes, but there
must be a reason why he has this
exclusive title. He says because he was
born miraculously without a father and
in and in Jewish culture your lineage
was from your father's side you know you
you would be the son of your father of
his father that's how your lineage was
traced not through the mother so
therefore since his lineage stopped in
Mary he had no father therefore god must
be his father I said okay that makes
sense that would make sense to an
average human being I said but if that
is the characteristic for his exclusive
sunship that he has no father. I said,
"What about Adam and Eve?" They had no
father nor mother. They were fashioned,
as God says, by his own hands, out of
dirt. So, if anyone has the exclusive
title to be the only begotten son of
God, it should have been Adam because
not only was he not have a father or
mother, he was the first creation.
Therefore, why does he not have that
title? Why are we not worshiping him as
the exclusive son of God and he had no
answer to that? And it was not to bash
him. It was just to say that this is not
an exclusive to say, "Oh, because he has
no father, he is God's exclusive son."
This was the extreme miracle that was
exclusive. One of the exclusive things
for the children of Israel to Jesus
about Jesus Christ was that he had no
father. He had no father at all. He came
directly from a virgin who had never
touched another human being. And that
was his miracle. That was, if you read
the Quran, it explains it very clearly.
When Mary brought the child, they they
accused her of adultery. But the miracle
was was that God made Jesus speak. Hey,
are he made him speak as a baby and said
that I am the messenger of God. Don't
are you are you surprised that God can
do this? God can do anything. That's why
Jesus was giving more miracles than
almost any other prophet. He was given
physical miracles to soften the deadened
heart of the children of Israel at that
time. That's why he was given such great
miracles to heal the blind, to heal the
sick, to bring people back to to to life
from the dead. being born of a virgin.
All of this was because this was one of
God's last message. He was the next the
last messenger to be sent to the
children of Israel and they rejected
him. That's when God decided to send
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him as a
mercy to all the worlds because we even
know that Jesus was not sent to all the
world. He was sent to the Jews. Even of
his own statements, he said, "I am not
sent but to the lost sheep of the house
of Israel." He is not a prophet for
everyone. He was a prophet that was
exclusively for their people as was
every prophet before him. Every nation
was sent a messenger. Children of Israel
sent more than anyone. But finally, God
decided to send one for the blanket of
humanity. And that was prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him who even said that
Jesus Christ had spoke of
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him. God cannot
change. In Malachi, God himself, this is
an explicit statement that is directly
attributed to God. Whether it is from
God or not, who knows? But this is a
statement that is attributed directly to
God. God says, "I do not change.
Therefore, the sons of Jacob are not
consumed." He was stating that I do not
change in my nature. I don't be happy
one day, sad the other day, angry the
next day. I I I don't. His nature does
not change. Therefore, God cannot be
subjected to the same laws which he
created. For instance, God created time.
Therefore, he cannot be subjected to
time. He does not pass through time. He
doesn't get old. He doesn't get tired.
He doesn't get sleepy. He doesn't go
through the same stages of time that we
go through. He created air, therefore,
he doesn't need it. He created the sun.
Therefore, he doesn't need his warmth.
He doesn't get hot. He doesn't get cold.
These things do not happen to God. God
cannot put himself into a human body,
come on this earth, be subjected to
time, be subjected to to hunger, be
subjected to to tiredness, be subjected
to being whipped and beat and hurt.
These are things that God cannot by his
very nature be. Some people say, you
know, uh that God can do anything and
that is not a correct statement because
there's God can do anything that is
permeate to his nature. For instance,
God cannot go to hell. God cannot die.
God wasn't born. God doesn't eat. There
are certain things he cannot do because
it would be against his nature. It would
be against his godship. It would make
him less than God. So God can do
anything except that which would make
him less than God. Anything that is and
that's why in Islam he has attributes
clearly laid out attributes which get
keep him as the title of God. Any
attribute that can be attributed to
human beings is something that cannot be
attributed to God. But things that are
attributed to God like mercy can be
attributed to us. But anything that is
attributed to us cannot be attributed to
God because it would make him less than
God.
The most essential reason why Jesus
cannot be God is that God is the essence
of worship. God is the object of
worship. God is the person whom we
worship. No matter what religion you
follow, whoever they call God is their
object of worship. It's who they give
their devotion to. It's who they make
their prayers to. It's who they make
their sacrifices to. It's who they pay
their charity in the name of God.
Whatever god they call it, what you know
where they call it Krishna, whether they
call it Buddha, whatever is their god,
that's who they give their worship to.
So had Jesus been God, he would have
told people to worship him. And but in
fact in Matthew 15:18, he did the exact
opposite. He told people in vain shall
you worship me. Predicting the future.
In vain shall you worship me and teach
as doctrine the commandments of men. Not
of me, not of God. You will teach as
doctrine the commandments of men. That
means you will teach as doctrine the
commandments of a trinity which come
from man. You will teach as doctrines
that I am God which will come from men.
You will teach in doctrines that throw
away the law of Moses and the law of God
which will come from men. But the
worship you give to me shall be in vain.
And we all know what the word vain
means. It will not count for anything.
We will go before God on the day of
judgment having worshiped Jesus 20, 30,
40, 50 years. And on the day of
judgment, Jesus will deny those people.
It is already stated when God asked
Jesus in the Quran on the day of
judgment, did you command anyone to
worship me? And Jesus will say, no, you
know, I would not do anything except
before what you told me to. And all of
these prayers and everything that is
being made to Jesus are in vain because
he does not hear these things because he
is not an object of worship. He is not
an object of worship. And therefore we
are being tricked. It is a trick that
has come about upon us. And and
unfortunately to be harsh it is a trick
that has come from the one who is the
author of tricks who is the devil. And
he's already said in the Quran that he
will get people to worship him falsely.
He will get people to worship idols
falsely. He will get people to worship
these things falsely. And then on the
day of judgment, he will leave you. He
will say, "I tricked you. Now I'm free
from you. I already got you. I'm gone.
I'm out. I have nothing to do with you
because I already got you to do what I
wanted you to do for so long. Now it
means nothing. It will be just like
dust. All these piles of prayers and
sacrifices you've made will be just like
a blast of wind will come and just blow
them into dust. They will be worth
nothing." So Jesus himself said, "Do not
worship me." Even when someone came to
him and said, "Good master." He said,
"Why you call me good master? there's
none good but one that's God or they
came and called him master said why do
you call me master and you don't do my
father's works you know he always denied
that worship when anyone would ever try
to worship him he would deny it some
people may have called him lord and they
said he didn't rebuke him because it's
his title of respect but no one ever
gave a devout worship to Jesus without
him rejecting la
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