Scripture to confirm that Jesus Christ is the Only true Son of God.,

[Justmerach]

Hi, I was following the “Do you believe in God thread” and it seems to have been closed. I read a post and wanted to reply to somebody who said that Jesus is not the Son of God. I just wanted to reply to them that why in Christianity in the scripture that we know that Jesus is the Son of God and explain why in my faith scripture supports that Jesus Christ is Only true Son of God.

Jesus is the Son of God but was also a prophet. He is also the redeemer to come as this post will explain.

Let me first say first in all three faiths we share much of the Old Testament and believe in the same God. I remember this topic right from my university days comparative studies between all three faiths.

I want to share a document about the Messiah prophecies about Jesus Christ to come that are in the Old Testament and commonly used online.

The Messiah prophecies have all be attached can be clicked on saved and enlarged. It comes in five images.

The word Christ and its Hebrew parallel means the anointed one which Christ is. Not added to that document above and to come to your attention-The Rod of Jesse in Isaiah 11 is also a prophecy of Jesus Christ to come. The Rod of Jesse/root of Jesse was the last rod for Jews and culminated with the Lord. Christians on this rod are his followers itself. God’s famous rods started with Aaron which placed which was placed in the arc of Covenant as a reminder and bore flowers as a promise of regeneration for the Jews. Jesus became as Christians our vine and we became him branches in the New Testament (John 15).

A photo of the Rod of Jesse from a church collection willl be attched in the next post.

It is Jesus the redeemer and heir to David who will redeem us all and the Jews to from exile-Jesus is from the offspring and roots of David (Revelation 22: 16). Some Jews believe that the Messiah prophecies are for David to come, but this is inaccurate and it is Jesus who will redeem them. "I will set up thy seed after thee (after King David), which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son (2 Samuel 7 12-13). God in this scripture also called David his servant and said that his Son was to come.

This scripture further points that Jesus Christ will be the one to redeem the Jewish people. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, the Lord our righteousness Jeremiah (23: 1-6). David will return in the new Jerusalem (Hosea 3:4-5).

Jesus is also known as the Prince of Peace and more attributes which do not point to who is to come as being a mere mortal being and this is mentioned in (Isaiah 9:6). “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

God also confirms in the New Testament Jesus as his only Begeotteon beloved Son –“this is my Beloved only son who I am well pleased" (John 3:16 ). Then in Luke Jesus was asked to this question if was the Son of God and Jesus said that yes he is the Son of God (Luke 22:70). He does not lie and the God the Father simply does not lie as well.

The miracles and healing he gave as we all saw in the New Testament that Jesus Christ ministry gave are well known in the New Testament around 40 in number they were as recorded in the Bible and I saw too with my own eyes in church and in my life, the healing that he gave me. I saw a child who could not walk once an after a few times of healing work at church he started to walk again. This was a miracle of Jesus Christ in our era. It is Jesus Christ who primarily who approves the gifts of the Holy Spirit this as he is the head of the church who appoints these gifts and roles of ministry (Ephesians 4:11).

The Church Body which are made of human beings are the members of the church and Jesus is also the head of the Church and we are part of this body (Ephesians 1:22-23). He promised to send believers a comforter after his resurrection Christ as a Christian gave me the spoken comforter which is the Holy Spirit (John 4:11)? The comforter is the Holy Spirit you receive when you are baptised of water and spirit..

The Son of God is an expression which indentified Jesus of Nazareth as the being who has had an eternal relationship to his Father (Psalm 2:7 ) "You are my Son; today I have become your Father." "You are my Son; today I have become your Father." Christ claimed to be the Son of God (Matthew 4:3; 8: 29; 27:54). (Matthew 4:3; 8: 29; 27:54). This too makes clear that Jesus is the Son of God (John 5:18). Also in the New Testament the term the Son of God appears in the New Testament almost 50 times. God also confessed that Jesus was his son at his baptism and at the transfiguration (Matthew 3:16, 17; 17: 5). Jesus also said that he is the Son of God (John 4:15) Revelation (2:18) (John 20:31) (Matthew 4:3) (II Corinthians 1:19) (Luke 8:28), the Jewish Sanhedrin condemned Jesus for blasphemy (Matthew 26: 63-66); (Mark 14 :61).

Jesus also was eighty times called the Son of Man which means God and the Messiah for humans in the New Testament. In Psalm 80 he was also called the Son of Man and was to called the Son of Man throughout Ezekiel to.

Jesus came to life as a mortal divine being through an Immaculate Conception. Angel Gabriel told Jesus' mortal mother to be Mary that she would overpowered by the Holy Spirit and receive a child and that would be God's Son.

This story is found in the Gospels- (Luke 1:26-38)-" And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David". The book of Luke is considered a highly reliable historical source which I know nearly all my life and it is the word of God.

I think in some countries more signs of Christ and the Holy Spirit presence will convince more people that Jesus is the Son of God and that eternal life is near and they will a season at least a while and will stay like young cubs parked with a lion on grass with him.

More history confirming Jesus Christ life is the Dead Sea Scrolls-
The Dead Sea scrolls contain (Isaiah 53) prophecy which is about Jesus Christ life to come. These scrolls were found in caves south of Jericho in the Dead Sea are and contain Biblical evidence the period of time between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. There are two scrolls Isaiah, one being complete. To our understanding of the period of time between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament times, and to a better understanding of Hebrew and Aramaic.

We have done the 1st resurrection of Christ and are waiting for the Rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) which will happen in a twinkling of an eye (1 Corinthians 15:51-52) and then will come the 2nd judgement and second coming and judgement and then New Earth/Heaven.

We should be working in the field till he comes-"Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left." (Matthew 24:20).

This is what the Catholic church has written has the Gospels, they are inspired by the Holy Spirit which comes from God. The Old Testatment is also the inspired word of God.

" We can distinguish three stages in the formation of the Gospels: 1. the life and teaching of Jesus. the Church holds firmly that the four Gospels, "whose historicity she unhesitatingly affirms, faithfully hand on what Jesus, the Son of God, while he lived among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation, until the day when he was taken up."99 2. the oral tradition. "For, after the ascension of the Lord, the apostles handed on to their hearers what he had said and done, but with that fuller understanding which they, instructed by the glorious events of Christ and enlightened by the Spirit of truth, now enjoyed."100 3. the written Gospels. "The sacred authors, in writing the four Gospels, selected certain of the many elements which had been handed on, either orally or already in written form; others they synthesized or explained with an eye to the situation of the churches, the while sustaining the form of preaching, but always in such a fashion that they have told us the honest truth about Jesus."101

https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_one/chapter_two/article_3/iv_the_canon_of_scripture.html

I had to google as I don’t own a bible but the
bible was not written by one person but is a collection of texts written by roughly 40 different, mostly unknown authors—orally in some cases and multiple languages over centuries. No wonder so much is incorrect and full of misinformation.

Also copied by hand, time and time aghast, often be semi litteral scribes wha made mishtakes. And the mashtakes could be copied and mashtikes on mashed.

I also think the use of the limited scrolls needs to be considered. With a limited supply they would get heavy use, so would not last long. So they would need to be copied more often. And the more it is copied, the more mistakes.

Unlike documents found in tombs that were not used. It is possible an intact gospel might be found if it were buried in a tomb ?

These are two good articles to show how scripture is written. It is good to be well informed.

https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/inspiration-and-the-relationship-of-divine-and-human-authorship

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2024/documents/20240612-udienza-generale.html

I don’t think the Vatican is a very independent source 🤣

From the Vatican document you linked :

"The Church, Bride of Christ, is the authorized interpreter of the inspired text of the Scriptures; the Church is the mediator of its authentic proclamation. Since the Church is gifted with the Holy Spirit — this is why she is the interpreter — she is the “pillar and bulwark of the truth” (1 Tm 3:15). Why? Because she is inspired, held steady by the Holy Spirit. And the task of the Church is to help the faithful and those who seek the truth to interpret the biblical texts correctly."

I think it is time to invoke Hitchens razor-

"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"

Does the Church have evidence for the claim it makes ?

@Justmerach Your research and quotes are pretty much limited to Christian sources and are therefore very biased. I’d suggest widening your searches to include independent writers. If you start with Wikipedia searches you’ll get a range of different perspectives and details of many scholars, including those with a Christian bias, to enable you to use the critical thinking and analysis skills that you must have learned in university. Try ‘is the Bible accurate’ as an initial search in Wikipedia, it’s really interesting.

Found this comment about the Bible

Was it a ruse? Was it dreamed up and written for a political agenda? Was it cynically written and assembled as a bunch of lies meant to control people? Was it a crude recount of what appeared to be supernatural acts? Was it a superstitious effort to answer questions and repel demons?
Why was so much time, effort and resources (at a time of unbridled disease, chaos and war) applied to this tome, and why were some books deleted? Did the people who wrote it actually believe what they were writing?
Because, at the end of the day, we are “deep thinkers” who rely on evidence and reason to explain this thing.

The bible cannot be taken as 100% authentic and 100% from God.

God doesn't make errors and there are several in the bible. Age differences, time differences, contradictions on jesus as well. If jesus said do not worship me and then the Christians continue to do so, they're going against the bible and so on it goes.

Its a fact. Look at speakers corner on youtube they go round and round in circles when you say Jesus said only the father is God. They will say no the word was with God and jesus is God. But the bible doesn't say that at all.

It is strange as most of you have no interest in the Christian faith and have been quite outspoken about it..
Although it may be some your thoughts to say that Jesus didn't go to heaven is regarded as heresy in the faith.
The Gospels are from the heart of Jesus Christ and if some Christians struggle wiith the rest of the New Testatment, some may see the Gospels as reflecting Jesus' ministry and teachings.

You want to pick holes in the Christian faith, you may as well do it to all the others.

It's freedom of religion. And freedom FROM religion.

The freedom from religion is the bit I want to pass to my DD.

I think it's clear many of us are interested -- why wouldn't we be? In my case, I grew up in a devoutly Christian household in a devoutly Christian society, and was educated entirely at Catholic schools, baptised, confirmed etc. For much of my career, I've taught Eng Lit, much of which is heavily dependent on a knowledge of Christian imagery and stories, from Chaucer to Beckett and Graham Greene and Kate O'Brien. I enjoy poking around rural churches in England (especially ones with medieval wall paintings) and I love Tallis and Byrd.

What many of us aren't is believers. That's an entirely different thing to being knowledgeable about a faith. Some believers really struggle with that. They assume that if you're not a believer it's because you somehow know nothing about Christianity. Which is not the case.

I mean, I personally think it's strange you are so underinformed about your faith, which you say is central to your life, and seem to see questions as disrespectful, and have no understanding of bias.

It's hilarious that you quote an official address by the Pope, in St Peter's Square, urging believer to read the Bible as if it's a credible source on 'how scripture is written'!

I’m interested in a huge range of topics but don’t just accept what someone might tell me.

Spent years working in corporate finance presenting proposals to clients who will pull apart and challenge anything and everything proposed to them. It’s a skill I’ve hopefully passed onto DT’s.

When we lived in England I use to love the cute little village churches.

We’re going to the light show at our local cathedral this weekend.

https://www.basiliquenotredame.ca/en/events/the-aura-experience

I am not here to write essays about a faith or a posgraduate thesis either. I have done both btw. Perhaps know the difference having a faith and being there to just study it. Your arguments didn't hold with me previously.

I understand people may have had the faith and left it. I understand they may have thoughts about it. It has to be said at times when those thoughts expressed are not a part of the Christian faith. Let's just faiths that are not mine, I don't tend to get involved to respect the poster..A lot of the responses are dispute here with no interest.

The Catholic faith as you know represents more of early Christanity. I think what they wrote on how the Bible was written was fine.

You seem to accept everything in the bible because it’s there and not because it might be true or not?

You don’t believe that Jesus was resurrected and you don’t believe in the virgin birth or think scripture about this should be written from the Bible. We are at different ends with this.

I have written earlier that I trust in my faith. I don’t need to study it anymore or prove anything to myself. At 16 I was praying for a miracle to grow taller. God gave me something better without asking as he didn’t give me the height. I have studied enough, but still learn through the scriptures and word of others and my areas of interest.

This article explains quite nicely about the early church history.
stanthonyshrine.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Temple-and-New-Testament.pdf

I believe in facts and evidence - I research concepts and data to understand the context. I don’t just accept what is presented to me. This applies to work and life generally.

There is always a why, when, what and where to find the answers to.

Have you heard of Joseph Cupertino, he was a Catholic Saint and could leviate float of the ground and learning disabled. The Holy Spirit enabled him to do so. It was documented by Pope Urban VIII who witnessed his levitations to authenticate them. There are Saints who could leviate to. I have uploaded a bit on him from one of my books.

There is a limit to proving things, God will not uncover all the inner workings of his mysteries to us for us to hold a magnifying to find out as well. You was you created by, I am not speaking about your parents?

Oh, @Justmerach ... I was created by my parents. Do you not believe your parents created you??

My parents were created by their parents, who were created by their parents, etc, etc. All the way back to the first humans about 2 million years ago. They, too, were created by their parents who were, going back over time, created by parents of gradually evolving primate species for around 85 million years.

All of their parents were evolving gradually from small mammals, going back through all the evolution of land animals, continuous parental lines evolving from fish about 340 million years ago. The fish evolved, generation by generation, from wriggly underwater creatures about 500 million years ago. The first of them had parents about 1,000 million years ago.

They, in turn, evolved from simpler organisms that didn't have 'parents' as such, they reproduced by various other means. Even so, they can be traced back through their generational lines for a total of 4,000 million years - four billion!

I don't know about you, but I find it miraculous that I owe my existence to countless millions of creatures over 4 billion years, each one struggling to survive against fearsome odds, each producing a new generation that also struggled, survived and reproduced, all the way until my parents produced me.

It's beyond awe-inspiring.

I actually feel I'm letting them all down by not having children of my own 😂 Such an incredibly long adventure, and it ends when I do. I have nieces & nephews, though, and some of them have children - so the story I'm part of hasn't ended. Just my tiny strand of the tale.

@GarlicBound I believe that my mother gave birth to me and my father and her created my physical life, but God was the one, the original source that created human life. I know that I didn't create myself and the world outside is just evidence for me of there being a God, the air we have as well , animals and nature to.
I believe that God had account of my life and I had a spirit that could communicate to him through prayer.

I don’t believe there is a limit to what we can learn and explain. I was created by my parents in the same way as DH and I created our DT’s. I believe in the Big Bang theory of evolution. I love the way children are taught about the creation of the universe.

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/big-bang

Joseph Cupertino didn't 'levitate', he was brilliant at jumping. Photo: Jesse Owens, long jump, 1936 Summer Olympics. Some dancers and other athletes alive today can perform spectacular leaps from a standing start. It's glorious to see, just not levitation or flying.

Cupertino was described as flying in a rapid arc. As he took off, he would yell really loudly. That's a description of someone making a huge physical effort (without training) to perform a big jump. He did have a gift - just not the one he's been credited with!

You can see people 'levitating' without athletic effort, just floating up as expected. They are all doing tricks, most of them quite simple to perform.

The Big Bang theory with Cosmic inflation doesn't rule out there being a creator God.

Quoting a few quotes from a astrophysics magazine 2023

“For many, there’s something very appealing about the Big Bang Theory, quite apart from its scientific veracity. With its image of a single, dramatic moment of creation, it conforms to earlier mythological and religious accounts”

“While an expanding universe is consistent with the Big Bang Theory it doesn’t necessarily require it”

“Yet the Big Bang prevailed in the end, and the steady state picture fell by the way side. Thanks to further observational evidence” “Scientists found it impossible to reconcile this with the idea that the universe has always been expanding at the relatively slow rate we observe today. Instead they had to assume a very brief period of Cosmic Inflation during the universe grew at a truly enormous rate”

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Astrophysics-Comprehensive-Future-Publishing/dp/B0CKKNDBVN/ref=asc_df_B0CKKNDBVN?mcid=47ac876f7f3437e98e82d741bbba4528&th=1&psc=1&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=740609070948&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2782901746439606383&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9050384&hvtargid=pla-2486057382477&psc=1&hvocijid=2782901746439606383-B0CKKNDBVN-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1

I believe the universe and everything in it was created by the Big Bang - it’s also part of the curriculum children are now being taught in school.
I remember going to one of the Royal Institute Christmas lectures for children on the topic - it was an amazing learning experience.