Post by ResLight on Sept 13, 2013 18:31:48 GMT -5
The Old Testament refers to the Almighty as the “God of truth” (Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 31:5; Isaiah 65:16). These verses are paralleled with Jesus' statement: “I am…the truth” (John 14:6), with the claim that this proves that Jesus is the God of truth.
Let us look closer:
Psalm 31:5 WEB
Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
Luke 23:46 WEB
Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last."
It should be obvious that Jesus is identifying the God of truth as being the one to whom prayed just before dying. The letter to the Hebrews later referrs to his:
Hebrews 5:7 WEB
Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Hebrews 5:8
though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;
Yes, the God and Father of Jesus is the "God of truth" and Jesus came to declare and real his His God as the only true God. No one can come to the God of truth, the only true God, the true one, except through Jesus. -- Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22; John 1:18; 14:6,7; 17:1,3,26; 1 John 5:20.
Nothing in this means that Jesus is Yahweh, "the God of truth".
Another submits John 1:17 as proof that Jesus is the "God of truth":
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
God's favor and truth did indeed come from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob "through" Jesus, in the same manner that the law was given from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through Moses. -- Exodus 3:14,15; Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Acts 3:13-26; Hebrews 1:1,2.
If, however, John, in the word recorded at John 1:17 was saying that Jesus is the "God of truth", then, to be consistent, we would have to likewise reason that Moses must be Yahweh the lawgiver to Israel. -- Isaiah 33:22.
Of course, there is nothing in the fact that Jesus said that he is truth, the only way that one can come to the only true God, that means that Jesus is the only the true God.
Let us look closer:
Psalm 31:5 WEB
Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
Luke 23:46 WEB
Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last."
It should be obvious that Jesus is identifying the God of truth as being the one to whom prayed just before dying. The letter to the Hebrews later referrs to his:
Hebrews 5:7 WEB
Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Hebrews 5:8
though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;
Yes, the God and Father of Jesus is the "God of truth" and Jesus came to declare and real his His God as the only true God. No one can come to the God of truth, the only true God, the true one, except through Jesus. -- Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22; John 1:18; 14:6,7; 17:1,3,26; 1 John 5:20.
Nothing in this means that Jesus is Yahweh, "the God of truth".
Another submits John 1:17 as proof that Jesus is the "God of truth":
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
God's favor and truth did indeed come from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob "through" Jesus, in the same manner that the law was given from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through Moses. -- Exodus 3:14,15; Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Acts 3:13-26; Hebrews 1:1,2.
If, however, John, in the word recorded at John 1:17 was saying that Jesus is the "God of truth", then, to be consistent, we would have to likewise reason that Moses must be Yahweh the lawgiver to Israel. -- Isaiah 33:22.
Of course, there is nothing in the fact that Jesus said that he is truth, the only way that one can come to the only true God, that means that Jesus is the only the true God.
