05-14-2007, 05:47 AM
Bismillah: Assalamo Alikum.
Another thought FHC...
In the Bible, God Almighty declared that He is not a man, which indicates that He can never become a man. Then how is it possible for any sane person to think that Jesus is God?
Here are the verses for your reference:
Numbers 23:19
<b>God is not a man</b>, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
1 Samuel 15:29
"And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, <b>for he IS not a man</b>, that he should have regret."
Hosea 11:9
"I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; <b>for I am God and not a man</b>, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath."
This was the first declaration of God about Himself that <b>He is not a man</b>, therefore <b>He can never become a man</b>, otherwise he would contradict Himself.
The other declaration of God about Himself that <b>He can never be born of a woman and that we can never compare Him with the son of man.</b>
Job 25:4-6
<b>How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? </b>
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
<b>How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?</b>
Please note that <b>Jesus was born of a woman named Mary, was a man, and was called the son of man. </b>
This is to me a very straight forward statements from God Almighty that He is not a man, not being ‘the son of man’, and not being born of a woman. This was a declaration in advance indicating <b>that Jesus (or any other human being) is not and can not be the Creator of the Universe to eliminate all confusion.</b>
And also in another passage, God Almighty said it plainly that <b>he can never change</b>… (He cannot say today that He is not a man, then later on change His mind and become a man). that would be absurd.
Malachi 3:6
<b>"For I [am] the LORD, I change not</b>; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."
Therefore, He would not become a man, because He declared that He is not a man and would not become a man/would not change (<i>and he did not specify the form of that change whether physically or whatever</i>). He just said it plain and clear that he would not change/would not become a man, because He is not a man in the first place.
Salam
Wael.