JESUS IS NOT GOD BUT THE SON OF GOD AND SO IT WAS TILL A PAGAN EMPEROR CONVENED THE COUNCIL OF NICEA

JESUS IS NOT GOD

BUT THE SON OF GOD

  

Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez

PROLOGUE

To establish that a prophecy is fulfilled in the life of someone great, at least seventy-five per cent of it must come to pass. So let us re-visit the O.T. and see what Isaiah the prophet said about Jesus, as well as what is attributed to King David in the Psalms;

Isaiah 42:1-9

42:1 "Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him and he will bring justice to the nations.

2 He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets.

3 A bruised reed he will not break, and a smouldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice;

4 he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his law the islands will put their hope."

5 This is what God the LORD says-- he who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:

6 "I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,

7 to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

8 "I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.

9 See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you."

Psalms 110

110:1 The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."

2 The LORD will extend your mighty sceptre from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies.

3 Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the womb of the dawn you will receive the dew of your youth.

4 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest for ever, in the order of Melchizedek."

5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.

6 He will judge nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.

7 He will drink from a brook beside the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

So where did Jesus meet all these predictions, prophecies or criteria and how much of them were fulfilled to merit his deification by Roman theologians who misrepresented what Paul intended in his epistles? In addition, here verbatim  is the earliest recognition of him by a living human even before Peter did;

John 1:49

49 Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel."

 (All quotations are from the New International Version(c) 1978 by International Bible Society)

This is Jesus’ own testimony about his position in relation to the Father;

Mark 9:33-37

33 They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?"

34 But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest.

35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all."

36 He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

37 "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."

There are gross misinterpretations still going on these days especially among semi-educated fanatics of Christendom. Listen to the lyrics of their commercialised gospel music being aggressively marketed these days and notice all the blasphemies committed all in a mad hurry to make money.

The Jews must be laughing us to scorn! Of course, they have intermittently told us; “You gentiles worship our brother Jesus, but we worship the Almighty Jehovah who actually created us, you and Jesus!” Who has ever cared to listen, let alone understand?

I have nothing to add to what the good book said & says to date!

Rev. Prof J. J. Kenez, the Vessel of the Holy Spirit

PREFACE

This is the first acknowledgement of the appropriate title for Jesus, the Christ made by any living person, yet he was not chosen as one of the earliest disciples! Why? I am fully aware that this issue has received all the ecclesiastical arguments for and against ascription of the title ‘God the Son’ as the second person in the ‘mystery of the Holy Trinity’, since the Council of Nicaea. However, the issue remains ambiguous in the minds of natural thinkers and existential philosophers who give credence to the power of rational dialogue and the supremacy of truth.

That Jesus never addressed himself, as ‘Son of God’ is not in doubt, but that early theologians ascribed to him ‘equality with’ and ‘of the same substance’ with the Almighty Father, God, the Creator is in complete contradiction to the native intelligence of even the ‘Homo Faber’. The narratives of John, the beloved apostle and brother of Jesus, which is rightly called ‘the angelic gospel’ best depicts the ministry of John, the Baptist and the call of the earliest disciples. Within the period, more than four personalities addressed Jesus as the ‘Son of God’, the ‘Lamb of God’ and finally ‘My Beloved Son’, but none ever addressed him as ‘God’! This has always been the cause of disagreement between Muslims and Christians and the point of departure for all other religious groups in the world.

Even the supernatural beings often referred to as ‘demons’ in the bible recognised him and called him “the Son of God”, never “God”. And he forbade them from making him known. There is no place in the bible narrative Jesus ever referred himself as equal to the Father!

Mark 3:11-12

11 Whenever the evil spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."

12 But he gave them strict orders not to tell who he was.

The heresy should be stopped. It is both blasphemous and sacrilegious to say the least and idolatrous by the standards of the first three commandments given by Moses. It sets up Jesus as competing with his Eternal Father and Creator, who raised him from the dead! Even earlier in Chapter 1, Jesus was only addressed as “the Holy One of God” but not as God! So, when and where did this idolatrous doctrine and dogma by the Roman Catholic Church start? Moreover, all over the world, it has infected the entire Christendom.

Mark 1:23-27

23 Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an evil spirit cried out,

24 "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are-- the Holy One of God!"

25 "Be quiet!" said Jesus sternly. "Come out of him!"

26 The evil spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.

27 The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching-- and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him."

(from The Holy Bible: New International Version.  Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, 1984, by International Bible Society)

Those of us who are not Jews by birth have no business claiming or defending the divinity of Jesus. His blood brothers are all over the place. We must allow them to handle it. It is a national issue for the Israelites! We should at least listen to Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles when he summarised his mission in his first letter to the Corinthians:

1 Cor 15:1-4

15:1 Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.

2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

(From the Holy Bible: New International Version.  Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, and 1984, by International Bible Society)

Paul’s position is clear. One who was raised by another can never claim equality with the one who raised him from the dead! He even demonstrated this in his assertion in his letter to the Church at Ephesus;

Eph 1:17

17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength,

20 which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,

21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,

23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

(from The Holy Bible: New International Version.  Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, 1984, by International Bible Society) 

The great apostle, Paul, inadvertently deified Jesus Christ who overpowered him on the road to Damascus but he did not originate the idolatry; now ravaging Christendom; of equating Jesus to his Almighty Father. It violates the first three commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai! The position of this writer is that Jesus, the Messiah, is not equal to his Father, has never been and will never be! Jesus never claimed equality with his Father even in chapter 17 of John’s gospel, which many erroneously point at/to as their evidence. He stated ‘inter alia’ in that his longest prayer; “I and the Father are One”, which does not translate into “I and the Father are Equal”.

This author affirms that this confusion has led to the commonest idolatry on the part of some naïve Christians who now give to Jesus, the Christ, the worship, honour and adoration due only to the Most High. Though one may worship Jesus as the promised Messiah as the three wise kings; the Magi from the Far East did; yet this adoration should not equal or replace the worship due only to the Creator God who made us and his son, Jesus.

Matt 2:9-15

9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.

10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.

11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.

12 And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him."

14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,

15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."

(from The Holy Bible: New International Version.  Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, 1984, by International Bible Society)  

By the time the Magi visited, we were not told whether Joseph had rented a better apartment for mother and child, but it is implied when you differentiate a ‘manger’ from a ‘house’. On return from Egypt he took them to Nazareth where he resided and earned his living as a carpenter! No one ever talked of Jesus being worshipped throughout his ministry again except the Saprophoenician woman who wanted Jesus to heal her daughter! Jesus, himself, discouraged people from prostrating in front of him. No! Never, for he did not even permit the centurion to pay him any special obeisance! It is that simple! Can these religious fanatics or sycophants not understand what John, the beloved apostle saw? Or do they now doubt his revelations?

Revelation 1: 1-3;

1:1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

2 who testifies to everything he saw-- that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

(From the Holy Bible: New International Version.  Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, and 1984, by International Bible Society)

If Jesus and the Almighty are equal in all respects, why should verses 1 & 2 make distinctions between ‘the sender of the angel’, the ‘word of God’ and ‘the testimony of Jesus’? Even, the popular old King James Version that most itinerant preachers prefer to quote, which gives them the ample opportunity of interpretating the verse however they want is even more unequivocal about the differentiations;

“Rev 1:1-3

1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”                        From the original authorised King James Version

The absurdity of the idolatry is more accentuated if one listens to the lyrics of misinformed gospel singers of today or analyse the contents of some prosperity gospel preachers. Jesus is their Almighty this and that, who gives them the breath of life, clothes them, feeds them, makes them prosperous, sends them to sleep, kills their enemies, finds them their marriage partners, heals their infirmities and so on and so forth. Blasphemous utterances fill most Pentecostal Churches these days, as the hungry pastors out-do each other in deifying Jesus, the Christ. Jesus said “Anything you ask the Father in my name and believe that you have received, that I will grant unto you,” not “anything you ask me in my name”!

THE PRONOUNCEMENTS OF THE LIVE APOSTLES

The real apostles who eat and dined with the Lord never equated him with God and they have the final say on this debate on the deification of their brother and teacher. Read the epistles of James, Peter and John, who was described as the one Jesus loved, who ended his gospel thus:

John 20:30-21:1

30 Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.

31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

John 21:20-25

20 Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, "Lord, who is going to betray you?") 21 When Peter saw him, he asked, "Lord, what about him?" 22 Jesus answered, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me." 23 Because of this, the rumour spread among the brothers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?" 24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true. 25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

1 John 5:1-12

5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 6 This is the one who came by water and blood-Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9 We accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10 Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

All from NEW IINTERNATIONAL VERSION of the HOLY BIBLE

‘SON OF GOD’ APPEARED 42 TIMES AND ONLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, ‘JESUS IS GOD’ NEVER APPEARED ONCE

Matthew 4:3

3 The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."

NIV

Matthew 4:6

6 "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:

"'He will command his angels concerning you,

and they will lift you up in their hands,

so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"

NIV

Matthew 8:29

29 "What do you want with us, Son of God?" they shouted. "Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?"

NIV

Matthew 14:33

33 Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God."

NIV

Matthew 26:63

63 But Jesus remained silent.

The high priest said to him, "I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."

NIV

Matthew 27:40

40 and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"

NIV

Matthew 27:43

43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'" NIV

Matthew 27:54

54 When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, "Surely he was the Son of God!"

NIV

Mark 1:1

1 The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 

NIV

Mark 3:11

11 Whenever the evil spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God." NIV

Mark 15:39

39 And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"

NIV

Luke 1:35

35 The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. NIV

Luke 3:38

38 the son of Enosh,

the son of Seth, the son of Adam,

the son of God.

NIV

Luke 4:3

3 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."

NIV

Luke 4:9

9 The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down from here. NIV

Luke 4:41

41 Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ. 

NIV

Luke 22:70

70 They all asked, "Are you then the Son of God?"

He replied, "You are right in saying I am."

NIV

John 1:34

34 I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God."

NIV

John 1:49

49 Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel."

NIV

John 5:25

25 I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. NIV

John 11:27

27 "Yes, Lord," she told him, "I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

NIV

John 19:7

7 The Jews insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."

NIV

John 20:31

31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

NIV

Acts 9:20

20 At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God. NIV

Romans 1:4

4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. NIV

2 Corinthians 1:19

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by me and Silas and Timothy, was not "Yes" and "No," but in him it has always been "Yes." NIV

Galatians 2:20

20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. NIV

Ephesians 4:13

13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

NIV

Hebrews 4:14

14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. NIV

Hebrews 6:6

6 if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.

NIV

Hebrews 7:3

3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God he remains a priest forever.

NIV

Hebrews 10:29

29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? NIV

1 John 3:8

8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. NIV

1 John 4:15

15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. NIV

1 John 5:5

5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

NIV

1 John 5:10

10 Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. NIV

1 John 5:12

12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

NIV

1 John 5:13

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. NIV

1 John 5:20

20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true-even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

NIV

Revelation 2:18

18 "To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:

These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze. NIV

My friends, this does not need a commentary. Or, does it?

CHAPTER 1

THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS

Did Jesus not state in unambiguous terms that the Father is greater than he is? So, why the mass hysteria and idolatry introduced by Saul of Tarsus, due to his Damascus experience and forced conversion? Let us see what the Lord said as his valedictory speech. He prayed thus:

John 17:1-11

17:1 After Jesus said this, he looked towards heaven and prayed: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.

2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.

3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

4 I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

6 "I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.

7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.

8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.

10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.

11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name-- the name you gave me-- so that they may be one as we are one.

(From the Holy Bible: New International Version.  Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, and 1984, by International Bible Society)

Does any of the sentences imply, insinuate or claim equality? For one to be sent means that the sender is superior, doesn’t it? We are not doing Jesus any favour by setting him against God the Creator who made him and us nor by standing up against his Almighty Father! When he said that we are his friends/brothers, did it not imply we all have One Father? Let the hypocritical fanaticism of St Paul be halted!

Even, his own cousin, John the Baptist, whose role was that of ‘a forerunner’, identified Jesus to his people. The Pharisees that queried him on his identity and later he directed his two disciples to follow Jesus; John 1:29; 36; etc. Andrew did same at John 1: 41, Nathanael was the first to use the title ‘Son of God’ as narrated in John 1: 49-50 and finally, God the Almighty Father called him ‘My Beloved Son’ at his baptism as reported by John, the Baptist, an the addition “ in whom I am well pleased, hear you him.”

John 1:19-2:1

Jerusalem

20 He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, "I am not the Christ”.

21 They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not”. "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No”.

22 Finally they said, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the desert, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.'"

24 Now some Pharisees who had been sent

25 questioned him, "Why then do you baptise if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

26 "I baptise with water," John replied, "but among you stands one you do not know.

27 He is the one who comes after me, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie."

Bethany

29 The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

30 This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'

Israel

32 Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him.

33 I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptise with water told me, 'The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptise with the Holy Spirit.'

34 I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God."

35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.

36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"

37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

38 Turning round, Jesus saw them following and asked, "What do you want?" They said, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

39 "Come," he replied, "and you will see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour.

40 Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus.

41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, "We have found the Messiah" (that is, the Christ).

42 And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which, when translated, is Peter).

Galilee

Bethsaida

45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote-- Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

46 "Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathanael asked. "Come and see," said Philip.

47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false."

48 "How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the fig-tree before Philip called you”.

49 Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel."

50 Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig-tree. You shall see greater things than that."

51 He then added, "I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man”.

In Mark’s account, his introduction, his opening sentence settles the matter! John’s testimony corroborates it and finally; God, the Father, epitomises the title ‘Son’ by qualifying it as ‘My Beloved’ during the baptism of Jesus by John, the Baptist. Note, however, that it was only John who saw the Dove that rested on him and the voice from above!

Mark 1:1-13

 1:1 The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

2 It is written in Isaiah the prophet: "I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way"--

3 "a voice of one calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.'"

4 And so John came, baptising in the desert region and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Jerusalem

6 John wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt round his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

7 And this was his message: "After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.

8 I baptise you with water, but he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit."

Nazareth

10 As Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

11 And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased."

12 At once the Spirit sent him out into the desert,

13 and he was in the desert for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.

(From the Holy Bible: New International Version. Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, and 1984, by International Bible Society) 

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NATIVES OF NAZARETH WERE WISE PHILOSOPHERS UNLIKE MANY FANATICAL CHRISTIANS OF TODAY

They asked relevant questions that no one ever bordered to answer nor any group of theologians or religious scholars had answered till this morning 07/08/2012 2:50:56 GMT when the Holy Spirit bestowed on humanity this eye-opener through his humble vessel! But I had asked the same questions and others for years! Current day Christians are satisfied with repeating doctrines and dogmas they crammed as children when their brains were BLANK SLATES and missionaries brainwashed their parents! Many christians of today are half-baked, half-educated, half-civilised and half-christianised or else tell me why they cannot ask relevant questions as illiterate villagers did/do! An elder in my village asked the white priest that came to evangelise my clan in the early 1940s; “IF GOD HAD A SON THEN HE HAD A PENIS AND A WIFE. BUT YOU TOLD US THAT GOD IS A SPIRIT, DO SPIRITS NOW HAVE WIVES?”   When will you ask your own questions?

By:

Dr J. K. Danmbaezue a.k.a. Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc.

Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Existential Family Therapist & Research Psychometrician,

The Humble Vessel of the Holy Spirit of the Almighty Creator of the Entire Universe.

E-mails: saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk or agunabu1948@gmail.com or Tel: 0803-9097614.

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ABSTRACT:

I have deliberately culled the relevant verses of Matthew 13 from the Original Language the Bible was written before all the translations and versions began. Any serious-minded Bible student will do well to cross-check these and acquire the skills of reading Aramaic as it is shown here! RSV translations into English are added!

• Jesus Declared In Plain Language That He Was Only A Prophet And The Son Of The Man Joseph, So Why Was The Universal Idolatry Of Deifying Him By Constantine The Great, A Pagan Emperor, Accepted By The Early Church Fathers? Did Jesus Need To Equate Himself to His Own Father?
• Jesus was a prophet adopted and anointed by the Almighty Creator through the hands of John the Baptist. He was the first-born son of Joseph/Mary, the Carpenter and he had four junior brothers and un-named number of sisters. He was purely human. He never claimed divinity. He  declared that he was the Son of Man and finally in the Gospel of Matthew 13:57, he unequivocally affirmed that he was just a prophet. So, why deify him?

DISSERTATION:

THE BONE OF CONTENTION COMES FROM  MATTHEW 13: VERSES 53-58.

The townsmen of Jesus of Nazareth were not gullible like today’s Christians! They asked probing questions that theologians had refused to answer for centuries!

“53 ¶ And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there, (RSV)

54 And <kai> when he was come <erchomai> into <eis> his own <autos> country <patris>, he taught <didasko> them <autos> in <en> their <autos> synagogue <sunagoge>, insomuch that <hoste> they <autos> were astonished <ekplesso>, and <kai> said <lego>, Whence <pothen> hath this man <touto> this <houtos> wisdom <sophia>, and <kai> these mighty works <dunamis>? (KJV)

 54 and coming to his own country he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? (RSV)

55 Is <esti> not <ou> this <houtos> the carpenter's <tekton> son <huios>? is <lego> not <ouchi> his <autos> mother <meter> called <lego> Mary <Maria>? and <kai> his <autos> brethren <adelphos>, James <Iakobos>, and <kai> Joses <Ioses>, and <kai> Simon <Simon>, and <kai> Judas <Ioudas>? (KJV)

55 Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? (RSV)

 56 And <kai> his <autos> sisters <adelphe>, are they <eisi> not <ouchi> all <pas> with <pros> us <hemas>? Whence <pothen> then <oun> hath this man <touto> all <pas> these things <tauta>? (KJV)

 56 And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this?" (RSV)

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 57 And <kai> they were offended <skandalizo> in <en> him <autos>. But <de> Jesus <Iesous> said <epo> unto them <autos>, A prophet <prophetes> is <esti> not <ou> without honour <atimos>, save <ei me> in <en> his own <autos> country <patris>, and <kai> in <en> his own <autos> house <oikia>. (KJV)

 57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house." (RSV)

 58 And <kai> he did <poieo> not <ou> many <polus> mighty works <dunamis> there <ekei> because <dia> of their <autos> unbelief <apistia>. (KJV)

 58 And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief. (RSV)”

THEOSOPHICAL MICRODIAGNOSIS

Current day uninformed fanatics of the Roman brand of Christianity concocted by Roman Emperor Constantine and Saul of Tarsus that were ratified by the Council of Nicea must open their eyes that had/has been partially blinded for centuries by fables, legends, theories, doctrines and dogmas concieved, developed, nurtured and patented in Rome that they were forced to swallow as infants in catechism classes!

I am not a disciple of Karl Marx but I can recognise the truth whenever, wherever and however it is told in a simple language. Present-day Christians can be compared to drug dependents hypnotised with doctrines/dogmas or to healthy human beings who prefer to walk around on orthopaedic clutches whereas their feet are 100% okay! It is pure stagnation of the freedom to think independently as Homo sapiens. It is a universal slavery of the human person. It is abject poverty of the mind to swallow toxic wastes manufactured by others by resigning one’s ability to think straight. It is psychopathological! It was/is the greatest regression or buffonery of  mankind all through the ages; a wholesale subjugation to imperialism.

Where have all the miracles Jesus and the proclaimed saints of the Papacy been imprisoned that no victims of religious violence is protected miraculously from attacks from the children of the evil one? Where have all the miracle workers and television evangelists of Christendom disappeared to, such that none prays so that when tithe-paying members of their congregations are bombed, they do not succeed in their demonic machinations! Is there a paucity of signs & wonders and a drought of “Praise the Lord, Alleluiahs” or “Remain blessed in the Lord, Amen?”  

Please wake up from your centuries of hypnotic slumbering and feeding on paediatric malnourishing milk produced, bootled, labelled and marketed worldwide by demonic clerics resident in Rome! It is a brand new day in Christendom! For how long will you walk blindfolded into hell by holding tenaciously to the bastardised version of Christainity corrupted by Roman paganism/ imperialism?

      Come my dear Friends, Let us put on our thinking caps and for once truly earn the appellation; “ Homo sapiens"! Dare to be different and trust your intelligence!!

+Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc., the Humble Vessel of the Holy Spirit of the Creator.

QUESTIONS FROM THE ANALYTICAL MIND OF A PHILOSOPHER, A FREE-THINKER, AN AVERAGE ENQUIRER OR AN HONEST HISTORIAN!

1. Was Joseph truly a native of Bethelhem? If so, why did he have to go to a hotel for accomodation on arrival at his ‘hometown’?
2. Where and why did the relatives of Joseph not come to rejoice with him and the wife after the successful childbirth?
3. Were the shepherds and the Three Wise Kings the uncles of Jesus that they were conscripted to do play the roles and duties of blood relatives?
4. Where is the narrative of what what Jesus did as an infant with his peers?
5. Where was Jesus from ages 12 to 30 that were not narrated in the Bible?
6. Was ‘Jesus of Nazareth’, which was his popular designation, a misnomer?
7. Was Nathaneal wrong in his; ‘Can Anything Good Come Out of Nazareth?
8. Was Luke not falsifying genealogical records and lying by grafting a royal descent from the lineage of David apparently to fulfill the prophecies?
9. Was the genealogical tree of Jesus traced by Matthew not more authentic than thet of Luke who was neither an apostle nor a live participant?
10. Where was Joseph all through his son’s ministry and how did he disappear after the return from trekking to and fro Egypt. It is unfair for such a dutiful father and protector of the Infant Jesus to be so sidelined! When and how did he die and where was he buried?

These are but just a few of the questions that had/have and still agitate my mind since my teenage years in the minor seminary and adolescent years in the major seminary I attended. To date, no one has veritable answers for any of them? Can any of the glorified theologians or historians come to our rescue with the truth?

Was his popular designation ‘JESUS OF NAZARETH’, a misnomer? No one ever designated him “ Jesus of Bethlehem” or “ Jesus of Jerusalem” nor “ Jesus of Galilee” although occassionally he was referred to as a “Nazarean” or a “Galilean”. The question to find an answer to is this; What Brought About The False Genealogy Hoisted On Him By Luke Who Was Neither An Apostle Nor A Live-Witness Of His Times? “A stitch in time saves nine” was one of the earliest English proverbs I learnt in the 1950s when we attended Colonial Missionary Schools. I am now 64 years old. Unfortunately, we have arrived at this computer age and our children have access to electronic encyclopaedias. They browse and surf the Internet. I am only blowing the whistle so as to pre-empt the MASS EXODUS OF LUKEWARM CHRISTIANS to other international religions that are more  receptive to scientific concepts,which can satisfy the inquisitive mind!

I am declaring this urgent S.O.S in Jesus name! Please come to my rescue before I drown in apsotasy. Send your convincing answers to Dr Kenez via;

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