Daily Bible Nugget #636, John 3:16

The Nugget:

John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The Muslim Challenge:

Praying to a Statue, Believing that a Prophet is equal to Almighty God (Allah) And Believing in Trinity is Paganism. And that is what the Christians do.

My Response:

Genuine Bible believing Christians do not pray to a statue. Jesus is more than a prophet. The Bible declares that Jesus is the unique and only Son of God. Believing in the Trinity is to believe in what the Bible itself teaches.

The Muslim Request:

Can you Please Show me where did Jesus Said all what you are talking about in the Bible?

My Response:

You request:

“Can you Please Show me where did Jesus Said all what you are talking about in the Bible?”

(1) Praying to a statue is not authorized anywhere in the Bible that I know about. Therefore, genuine Bible-believing Christians to not engage in praying to statues, though there may be many nominal supposed Christians in some allegedly Christian faiths that do so.

(2) Jesus is more than a prophet. There is no record in the Bible that I am aware of where any prophet claimed the power to forgive sins. But Jesus made that claim.

Mark 2:5  When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.

Mar 2:6  But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

Mar 2:7  Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?

Mar 2:8  And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

Mar 2:9  Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

Mar 2:10  But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)

Mar 2:11  I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

Mar 2:12  And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.

(3) The Bible declares that Jesus is the unique and only Son of God.

John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

I explain this verse in detail in my book, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, and its expanded edition now titled The Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury, as follows:

begotten. Gr. monogenes, S# G3439, +Luk 7:12, lit. the only one of a family, unique of its kind. Monogenes, applied to Jesus, expresses the unique and eternal relationship of the Son to the Father.

As firstborn does not mean born first (Col 1:15 note), neither does only begotten imply a begetting, birth, or origin in time. In His pre-existence, Jesus was always uniquely the Son of God (Psa 2:7, +*Isa 9:6, Heb 1:8).

When used of Christ, only begotten speaks of “unoriginated relationship.” Only begotten “indicates that as the Son of God He was the sole representative of the Being and character of the One who sent Him” (Vine, Expository Dictionary, vol. 3, p. 140). It is a word picture which portrays the relationship of the Father to the Son in the terms of a Middle Eastern patriarchal family (**Gen 21:12; Gen 22:2; Gen 22:12; Gen 22:16, Heb 11:17).

Isaac, termed Abraham’s only begotten son (Heb 11:17), though Abraham had a prior son Ishmael by Hagar (Gen 16:15) and later sons by Keturah (Gen 25:1, 2, 3, 4, 1Ch 1:32, 33), sustains a unique relationship to Abraham as the son of promise (Gal 4:23). The same picture, portrayed in parable (Mat 21:37), emphasizes the unique authority of Jesus as sent by the Father (Joh 20:21, 1Jn 4:9), and our responsibility to receive the truth declared by Him (Joh 1:14; Joh 1:18; Joh 3:18, Mat 17:5). Pro 8:24, Col 1:15, Heb 1:6; Heb 11:17, %1Jn 5:18.

(4) You claim that “Believing in Trinity is Paganism. And that is what the Christians do.”

By the rule or principle of necessary inference, careful readers of the Bible MUST come to the conclusion that the teaching or doctrine of the Trinity is absolutely true.

Matthew 28:19  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

This is an understandable but complex subject, complex in that it involves a careful comparison of Scripture with Scripture. I have done that study and summarized the evidence in my book, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and its updated expansion, The Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury. This information will be found in my note at Matthew 28:19. I share the conclusion of that note with an absolutely unanswerable and irrefutable argument below:

“Several divine attributes are incommunicable: they belong to God exclusively, and cannot be communicated, delegated, or given to a created being. These include eternity (3), omniscience (6), omnipresence (7), sovereignty (30), immutability (31), and immensity (32). Since only God can possess the incommunicable attributes, yet Scripture ascribes them to Jesus and to the Holy Spirit, all three persons must be God. There is no other explanation which properly agrees with all the statements of Scripture.”

 

 

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