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  1. Is jesus a GOOD?
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  3. Here's some to consider:
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  5. "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the Son, but the Father only." Matthew 24:36
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  7. If Jesus is God, how could he not know the Hour? Would God simultaneously know and not know something?
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  9. He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” (Matthew 26:39)
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  11. For one, why would God be praying to Himself? And why would He say "not as I will but as You will"?
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  13. "I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me." (John 5:30)
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  15. So if he's God, how can he do nothing of his own will? Again this shows a distinct dichotomy between him and the Father who sent him.
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  17. So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God." (Mark 10:18)
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  19. Again, he is rejecting an attribute to himself that only perfectly would belong to God.
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  21. "The Father is greater than I." (John 14:28)
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  23. Self-explanatory.
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  25. And there's more. Even the apostolic letters don't give this impression of identity and equality between Christ and God, like where Paul says:
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  27. "For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5)
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  29. So here it's very clear. You have one God (i.e. the Father), and Christ (who is himself a man) is the mediator between God and mankind, he is our intercessor as such.
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  31. And this account from Acts recounting an episode with Peter and John:
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  33. 23 And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. 24 So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them, 25 who by the mouth of Your servant David have said:
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  35. ‘Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things? 26 The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together Against the Lord and against His Christ.’
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  37. 27 “For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done. 29 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, 30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
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  39. Again, a clear distinction between the one they are praying to, the Lord God, and making reference to His holy servant, Jesus (but not praying to him and certainly not equating him with God). If the two were one and the same, why make any distinction? And why not just pray directly to Jesus himself who they had known in person? Furthermore, why is the Lord's prayer addressed exclusively to "Our Father who is in Heaven", and not Jesus?
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