I Said, You Are Gods: How Jesus Refused the Divinity Charge When It Was Made to His Face
Part 11 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series — by eFireTemple The Moment That Should Have Settled the Question There is one passage in the canonical Gospels in which Jesus is directly accused of claiming to be God. The accusation is verbalized. It is explicit. It is named in the Greek with the exact technical theological language the standard interpretation has used for two thousand years to identify the moment of high-Christological self-revelation.
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Part 11 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series — by eFireTemple The Moment That Should Have Settled the Question There is one passage in the canonical Gospels in which Jesus is directly accused of claiming to be God. The accusation is verbalized. It is explicit. It is named in the Greek with the exact technical theological language the standard interpretation has used for two thousand years to identify the moment of high-Christological self-revelation. This is the moment, if any moment in the Gospels, when Jesus could have answered the accusation by confirming it. "Yes, I am God. You have understood me correctly. The blasphemy you accuse me of is not blasphemy because I am what you say I am claiming to be." He does not do that.