It should matter that many a minimizing of Jesus has been propagated.
Jesus is called god by the most eloquent of the NT writers.
Hebrews 1: 5 - 9
The Son Superior to Angels
For to which of the angels did He ever say, You are My Son; today I have become Your Father, or again, I will be His Father, and He will be My Son ? When He again brings His firstborn into the world, He says, And all God's angels must worship Him. And about the angels He says:
He makes His angels winds,
and His servants a fiery flame;but about the Son:
Your throne, O God
and the scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice.
You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
this is why God, Your God, has anointed You,
rather than Your companions, with the oil of joy.
Hebrews 3: 7 - 11
the Holy Spirit says
Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the desert,
where your fathers tested Me, tried [ Me ],
and saw My works for 40 years.
Therefore I was provoked with this generation
and said, "They always go astray in their hearts,
and they have not known My ways."
So I swore in My anger,"They will not enter My rest.
Then Hebrews states:
"of the Messiah ... it is said" , "that they would not enter His rest" ,
Then Hebrews ch4 reads :
So I swore in My anger,
they will not enter My rest.
And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world, 4 for somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this way:
And on the seventh day .
God rested from all His works
The Holy spirit said, then the Messiah said, then of God we read that he said the same thing about a "rest". Father < Son < Holy Spirit. Tri-une God. Three persons but they comprise one God.
In Acts 2 Peter makes his case for Jesus quoting a scripture about Yahweh and applying it to Jesus. Don't get all foofy about it just look at what it says there. Use another translation than the NWT. Holman Christian Standard Bible is my preferred but New Living Translation is good, The Amplified is good too. See them all at Biblegateway.com.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%201&version=HCSB Jesus is called god "Mighty God" (Is. 9) (John1) ..., is worshipped (Mt 28), And in Hebrews the Messiah is god and in many other places. Just read the words. The Holman CSB has topical headings which greatly help understand the change of thought in the argument and what are OT quotes and so-on.
So, a great spirit becomes bound up in an embryo and grows into a man the Messiah. The same great spirit that created the universe and sustains it by his word. (Heb. 1: 2,3) God incarnated part of himself that created the universe and that miracle is deemed not possible for God to become a man and still be God to be worshipped as Hebrews reads?
Well, logically it is complex that God is a mediator with God for us by the words of the Holy Spirit attributed to God but so what? Just read what it says.
Fuzzy Paul
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