"Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law" (Psalm 119:18) When Spirit of Truth Comes In To Your Life He Will Lead You to ALL the Truth." (John 16: 13)

"Why is this man talking in this manner? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins except one, God?"

 As this passage appears in NIV: "Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Some say that because Jesus forgave sins, he is God, because, as the Jews put it: "Who can forgive sins except one, God?"

 PLEASE NOTE WHAT JEWS ACTUALLY SAID. They said that "GOD ALONE CAN FORGIVE SINS"

 Is this indeed the case? Because Jesus forgives sins, does this make him God? Were the Jews correct in their understanding?

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THESE JEWS KNEW THEIR LAW - THAT IS WHY THEY SAID THAT JESUS WAS BLASPHEMING! PENALTY FOR THIS WAS DEATH BY STONING, THEY COULDN'T HAVE JUST SAID IT WILLIE NILLY AS THE PERSON WHO ACCUSED SOME ONE OF SUCH A SERIOUS CRIME HAD TO CAST THE FIRST STONE.

Please look at John 20:23 where we read of Jesus speaking to his disciples: "If YOU forgive the sins of any persons, they stand forgiven to them; if YOU retain those of any persons, they stand retained."

Here we read that Jesus says "the disciples could forgive sins." Now are we to conclude that the disciples are God because they forgave sins as well? Hardly. Neither is Jesus God because he could forgive sins.

  NOT AT ALL!! - WE TODAY "MUST" FORGIVE SINS AGAINST ANYONE WHO SINS AGAINST US -

IF WE DO NOT THEN WE ARE HOLDING A GRUDGE AGAINST THEM & WE ARE NOT LOVING THEM AS JESUS COMMANDED US.

THIS DOES NOT MAKE US "GOD" BUT GOOD CHRISTIANS. NO SHUNNING JUST BECAUSE SOME ONE DOES NOT AGREE WITH OUR TEACHING OR DOES NOT WORSHIP IN OUR CHURCH Etc.

DURING JESUS’ TIME SOME 2000 YEARS AGO - JEWS HAD TO SACRIFICE INNOCENT ANIMALS TO ATONE FOR THEIR SINS.

THEY DIDN’T HAVE THE NEW LAW OF LOVE - BUT THE LAW OF 10 COMMANDMENTS & SACRIFICES.

HERE CAME JESUS & STARTED TELLING PEOPLE THAT THEY "NO LONGER" HAD TO DO THAT, THEIR SINS ARE FORGIVEN SIMPLY BY BEING TOLD SO.

BACK THEN THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD FORGIVE SINS WAS GOD DURING SACRIFICIAL CEREMONIES & IN NO OTHER WAY.

Mark 2:10 tells us: "But in order for YOU men to know that the Son of man has authority to forgive sins upon the earth," -he said to the paralytic."
Here we see that Jesus had authority to forgive sins just as the disciples had authority to forgive sins.
Where did he get this authority to judge and forgive sins?

FIRS OF ALL - JESUS CAME FROM HEAVEN - FROM HIS SPIRITUAL FORM - TO HIS HUMAN FORM.

NOW THAT HE WAS IN HUMAN FORM HE SAID THAT HE HAD AUTHORITY ON EARTH AS WELL AS IN HEAVEN TO FORGIVE SINS.

SO HE DID FORGIVE SINS OF US ALL - HE TOLD ISRAELITES FROM THE BEGINNING WHAT THEY HAD TO DO - BUT THEY CONTINUALLY DISOBEYED HIM.

  Let us first look at John 5:30 which says: "I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative; just as I hear, I judge; and the judgement that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me."

 THIS IS HOW THE PASSAGE READS IN NIV: "BY MY SELF I CAN DO NOTHING; I JUDGE ONLY AS I HEAR, AND MY JUDGEMENT IS JUST, FOR I SEEK NOT TO PLEASE MYSELF BUT HIM WHO SENT ME."

 NOTE THE DIFFERENCE IN THE MEANING OF THE PASSAGE. NOTE WHAT JESUS SAYS - HE JUDGES AS HE HEARS -

DEAR FRIENDS THIS IS LIKE A JUDGE IN A COURT ROOM - NO JUDGE MAKES A JUDGEMENT "BEFORE" HE HEARS THE CASE - DOES HE? NO -

HE WAITS UNTIL ALL THE EVIDENCE IS PRESENTED TO HIM & THEN HE MAKES THE JUDGEMENT ON THE CASE - EITHER GUILTY AS CHARGED OR HE DISMISSES THE CASE ON SOME TECHNICALITY.

SAME APPLIES TO JESUS - HE JUDGES WHAT HE HEARS US SAY AGAINST HIM, THEN HE MAKES A JUDGEMENT GUILTY AS CHARGED - WITH HIM THERE IS NO WAY OF GETTING OF ON A TECHNICALITY - LIKE - I DIDN’T KNOW IF I DID THIS THEN THIS WILL HAPPEN.

 WHAT JESUS IS TELLING US IS THAT WE OUR SELVES ARE IN EFFECT OUR OWN WORST ENEMY -

 WHAT WE SPEAK IN OUR HEART AGAINST ANYONE - WILL JUDGE US AT THE FINAL END!!

JESUS KNOWS OUR HEART CONDITION & THEN HE MAKES HIS DECISION. GOD JUDGES US BY OUR HEART CONDITION & NOT WHAT WE DO IN FRONT OF OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.

GOD WANTED THAT FROM JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE BEGINNING - BUT THEY CONTINUALLY DISOBEYED HIM & DO TO THIS DAY. PLEASE READ EZE. 36:26 - 44 ;7 - ISAIAH 57:15 - LUKE 6:46 ETC

Yes, it was from his Father, that he received this authority to forgive sins. The same place the apostles received their authority. Acts 5:31 helps to see this a bit clearer as we read: "God exalted this one as Chief Agent and Savior to his right hand, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins."

THIS IS SO TRUE - WE ALSO READ IN VERSE 32 THAT "HOLY SPIRIT IS THE WITNESS OF THOSE THINGS - WHO GOD GAVE TO ALL THOSE WHO OBEY HIM." -

AS I HAVE MENTIONED IN OTHER PASSAGES - SON - FATHER & HOLY SPIRIT WORK AS ONE - SEE ROMANS 8:11 IT SAYS THAT HOLY SPIRIT RAISED JESUS & IN JOHN 2:19 JESUS SAID THAT HE WILL RAISE HIMSELF.

  ALL 3 WORK AS ONE UNIT - WHAT SON DOES SO DOES THE FATHER & HOLY SPRIT - WHAT FATHER DOES SO DOES THE SON & THE HOLY SPIRIT & WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES SO DOES THE FATHER & SON.

THEY ARE NOT LIKE WE HUMANS WHO DO OUR OWN THING  =

WE DO NOT LISTEN TO GOD = TO OUR PARENTS - OUR FELLOW BROTHERS & SITTERS ETC. WE KNOW BETTER & WANT TO DO IT OUR WAY AS - OUR WAY IS BEST.

Yes, Jesus was to be "exalted," to God’s right hand for him to "forgive sins." Thus the Jews were wrong to say that only God could forgive sins and so are trinitarians.

ALL OF A SUDDEN THE TEACHES OF THE LAW WERE WRONG - THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TORAH WAS SAYING ABOUT BLASPHEMY & FORGIVENESS OF SINS - HMMMM INTERESTING IDEA.

IF THIS WAS SO - THEN WHY DID THEY SACRIFICE SO MANY INNOCENT ANIMALS FOR THEIR OWN ATONEMENT ACCORDING TO THE LEVITICAL LAW? DEFINITELY NO FOR FUN OF IT.

THEY DIDN’T KNOW THAT GOD CAME & GAVE THEM NEW COVENANT - AS PER ZAC 12:0 & MALACHI 3:1

"However, he did not let him, but said to him: "Go home to your relatives, and report to them all the things Jehovah has done for you and the mercy he had on you." And he  went away and started to proclaim in the De·cap’o·lis all the things Jesus did for him, and all the people began to wonder."

This interesting verse has led some to conclude that Jesus is Jehovah because the demon possessed man was told to report all the things "Jehovah" did for him. Yet, the man went to Decapolis and reported all the things "Jesus" did for him.

FIRST OF ALL -IT IS JESUS WHO IS DOING THE TALKING IN VERSE 19 & NOT MAN HIMSELF -

BY MAKING THIS STATEMENT - THE AUTHOR IS SAYING THAT JESUS IS DEMON POSSESSED.

 MAN STARTS TO TALK & TELL HIS STORY IN VERSE 20 - NOTE HOW HE SAYS THAT "JESUS" DID THESE THINGS FOR HIM. YET NWT TELLS US IN VERSE 19 THAT IT IS JEHOVAH.

BUT NOW WE HAVE TO MAKE EXCUSES FOR THE NWT TRANSLATING COMMITTEE - AS THEY DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO RENDER THIS PASSAGE  EITHER - SO WE HAVE TO STRAIGHTEN THEM OUT ALSO.

This verse is interesting, because this line of reasoning can only be used, for the most part, if one uses the NWT. {ACCORDING TO THIS AUTHOR - NWT IS THE BEST BIBLE OUT} This is because the NWT is one of the few translations that have restored God’s personal name, Jehovah, into the Greek text. Thus, trinitarians that use this verse must first accept that the translation of Jehovah in verse 19, is indeed correct for their line of reasonings to have any merit.

 NO PROBLEMS HERE - DEAR READERS - I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TAKE YOU TO MATTHEW 3:3 - IN NWT - WHERE JOHN THE BAPTIST IS PREPARING THE WAY FOR JEHOVAH ALSO. YET HE CAM BEFORE JESUS TO PREPARE JEWS FOR NEW KINGDOM.

 However, is this the case? Well, it is the observation of this author, that very few trinitarians that I have ever personally spoken with, ever readily accept that the divine name of God, Jehovah, should be used in the Greek scriptures. In fact, most argue that the name Jehovah should not even be used in the Hebrew/Aramaic scriptures. Why? Well, that is another subject that will be discussed under its own heading in the near future. But the fact remains: In order to use these verses to promote the trinitarian doctrine, one must first accept the use of the divine name "Jehovah" in the Greek text of Mark 5:19.

 HANG ON HERE - WHY DOES NOT THE AUTHOR FACE UP TO THE FACTS - IT CLEARLY SAYS THAT JESUS IS JEHOVAH - - BUT NO - EVEN THE GB TRANSLATING COMMITTEE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE SAYING SO WE JUST DROP THE SUBJECT LIKE THAT & GO ON. HMMMM

 I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU DEAR READERS - ARE YOU LIKE THIS ALSO? DO YOU READ ONE THING & WHEN IT DOES NOT AGREE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD - YOU JUST BRUSH IT OF LIKE THE WATER OF THE DUCKS BACK. I REALLY & SINCERELY HOPE NOT.

ALSO ON THE SUBJECT OF GOD'S DIVINE NAME - IT IS "YHWH" & NOT ANYONE ELSE -

ALSO IN EX. 3:14 SAME WORD "YHWH" IS TRANSLATED "I AM WHO I AM" - GOD KNOWS WHO HEW IS - THE QUESTION ARISES DO YOU KNOW WHO HE IS?

Let us resume our discussion now, and see just what is meant by the verses found at Mark 5:19,20.

Do these verses prove that Jesus is Jehovah? IF IS NOT THEN WE BETTER THROW THE NWT AWAY!!

Let us look at a few Bible examples that contain similar sentence structures, that allow us to properly understand this verse.

MATTHEW 3:3 IS A GOOD NT PASSAGE THEN COMPARE IT TO ISAIAH 40:3; 5; 10 & 11 & ISAIAH 43:11 & 44:6 & 8

Deuteronomy 31:3 is where we shall first go, it reads: "Jehovah your God is the one crossing before you. He himself will annihilate these nations from before you, and you must drive them away. Joshua is the one crossing before you, just as Jehovah has spoken."

AS USUAL LETS LOOK AT WHAT NIV TRANSLATES THIS PASSAGE FROM VERSE 1 "THEN MOSES WENT OUT & SPOKE THESE WORDS TO ALL ISRAEL: 2 ‘I AM NOW A HUNDRED & TWENTY YEARS OLD AND I AM NO LONGER ABLE TO LEAD . THE LORD HAS SAID TO ME, YOU SHALL NOT CROSS THE JORDAN.’ 3 "THE LORD YOU GOD HIMSELF WILL CROSS OVER AHED OF YOU. HE WILL DESTROY THESE NATIONS BEFORE YOU, AND YOU WILL TAKE POSSESSION OF THEIR LAND. JOSHUA WILL ALSO CROSS AHEAD OF YOU, AS THE LORD SAID."

  DO YOU NOTE THE DIFFERENCE IN THE MEANING OF THIS PASSAGE?

Now, are we to conclude that Joshua IS Jehovah because FIRST, the verse says that "Jehovah" is the one crossing before you, THEN, in the third sentence of the same verse, it goes on to say that it is "Joshua" who is the one who is crossing before you? NO! But then question is "why?"

THE ANSWER LIES IN USING THE WRONG BIBLE & NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS BEING SAID.

For the very same reason we cannot conclude that just because the man was told to report the things Jehovah did for him, but instead, he went and reported the things Jesus did for him. It is because just as Jehovah was indeed the leader and protector of God’s people, and Joshua was God’s appointed leader, or representative, so to Jehovah was the actual source of the healing by Jesus, who was God’s appointed representative.

NOW WE ARE TWISTING DEUTERONOMY PASSAGE TO SUITE OUR OWN MEANING & NOTE WHAT IS BEING SAID IN REALITY.

DEAR READERS THIS IS NOT HOW WE SHOULD STUDY THE BILE. WE MUST READ "ALL" FACTS FIRST & THEN COME TO A CONCLUSION.

NOW IF YOU WISH TO GO ALONG WITH WHAT THIS AUTHOR ALLUDES TO - THAT IS YOUR "FREE" CHOICE, BUT IT IS NOT CORRECT & NOT ACCORDING TO WHAT IS BEING SAID.

I ASK YOU TO GO & LOOK UP IN ANY BIBLE APART FORM NWT & SEE WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT THESE PASSAGES. KJV, NIV, NRSV, LIFE APPLICATION BIBLE ETC. BUT PLEASE GIVE YOUR SELF SOME CREDIT & DO NOT FOLLOW BLINDLY.

It seems obvious that the man understood Jesus’ words found at John 10:37,38 where we read: "If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me. But if I am doing them, even though YOU do not believe me, believe the works, in order that YOU may come to know and may continue knowing that the Father is in union with me and I am in union with the Father."

LETS SEE HOW THE NIV RENDERS THIS PASSAGE - I WILL ASK YOU ALSO TO BUY YOUR SELF A KINGDOM INTERLINEAR OF GREEK & ENGLISH SCRIPTURES - & YOU WILL FIND THAT WORDS "UNION WITH" ARE NOT THERE - THEY HAVE BEEN INSERTED BY GB TRANSLATING BODY.

VERSE 36: "WHAT ABOUT THE ONE WHOM THE FATHER SET APART AS HIS VERY OWN AND SENT INTO THE WORLD? WHY THEN DO YOU ACCUSE ME OF BLASPHEMY BECAUSE I SAID ‘I AM GOD’S SON? 37 DO NOT BELIEVE ME UNLESS I DO WHAT MY FATHER DOES. 38 BUT IF I DO IT, EVEN THOUGH YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME, BELIEVE THE MIRACLES, THAT YOU MAY KNOW & UNDERSTAND THAT THE FATHER IS IN ME & I IN THE FATHER. 39 AGAIN THEY TRIED TO SEIZE HIM, BUT HE ESCAPED THEIR GRASP."

NOTE THE DIFFERENCE IN THE MEANING HERE!!

Notice here that Jesus did the "works of [his] Father." Jesus did NOTHING of his own initiative.

PLEASE NOTE THAT JESUS & THE FATHER DO THINGS TOGETHER -AS FATHER IS "IN" JESUS & Jesus is "IN" THE FATHER.

WHAT ONE DOES SO DOES THE OTHER!!

(John 5:19) Jesus received his power to do miracles from his Father. Just as the disciples did miracles by God’s power. Thus, Jesus fully represented his Father, just as Joshua fully represented Jehovah by taking the lead to cross the sea into the promised land.

WHO WENT AHEAD OF JOSHUA FIRST? JEHOVAH RIGHT !! THEN JOSHUA FOLLOWED JUST A S MOSES TOLD THEM THAT HE WOULD.

  AGAIN - JESUS & THE FATHER WORK AS "ONE" UNIT - NOT AS TWO SEPARATE IDENTITIES.

We might recall the many miracles the disciples did while they were alive. They raised the dead, cured the blind, healed the sick, just to name a few. And in who received the credit for these things?

THE ONE WHO GAVE THEM THE POWER TO DO IT - JESUS!!

Acts 3:6,8 tells us: "However, Peter said: "Silver and gold I do not possess, but what I do have is what I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Naz·a·rene’, walk!" and, leaping up, he stood up and began walking, and he entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God."

Yes, God did the miracle through Peter, and yet, the man praised God. Now are we to understand that Peter was God because the man praised God when, in reality, it was Peter who was actually used by God to perform the miracle? Of course not.

YES - GOD HAS NO HANDS BUT OUR HANDS TO DO HIS WORK FOR TODAY- HE HAS NO MOUTH BUT OUR MOUTH TO TELL OTHERS ABOUT HIM & HOW HE DIED - HE HAS NO FEET BUT OUR FEET TO LEAD MAN IN HIS WAY - HE HAS NO HELP BUT OUR HELP TO LEAD MEN TO HIM.

YES GOD USES US TODAY IN THE SAME WAY AS HE DID WITH OT PROPHETS & APOSTLES & DISCIPLES DURING JESUS TIME. WE CAN DO MORE WORK THEN HE DID WHILE HE WAS WITH US IN HUMAN FORM.

BUT IT MUST BE DONE WITH FULL FAITH IN HIM & NO ONE ELSE - THAT MEANS NO ORGANIZATIONS -

So then, in reality, the demon possessed man in Mark 5:19,20 was correct. He did report all the things Jehovah did for him, as manifested THROUGH Jesus Christ. For Jesus did those miracles or works by means of his Father, just as Peter and the disciples performed miracles by means of the Father as well.

SEE PHILIPPIANS 2:6 IN YOUR OWN NWT!!

"And as he was going out on his way, a certain man ran up and fell upon his knees before him and put the question to him: "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit everlasting life?" Jesus said to him:

"Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God."

This how this passage is rendered in NIV: "AS JESUS STARTED ON HIS WAY, A MAN RAN UP TO HIM AND FELL ON HIS KNEES BEFORE HIM. ‘GOOD TEACHER," HE ASKED, "WHAT MUST I DO TO INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE? 18 - ‘WHY DO YOU CALL ME GOOD?’ JESUS ANSWERED. ‘NO ONE IS GOOD - EXCEPT GOD ALONE. 19 YOU KNOW THE COMMANDMENTS, DO NOT MURDER, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT GIVE FALSE TESTIMONY, DO NOT DEFRAUD, HONOUR YOUR FATHER & MOTHER.’ 20 TEACHER. HE DECLARED, ‘ ALL THESE THINGS I HAVE KEPT SINCE I WAS A BOY." 21 JESUS LOOKED AT HIM AND LOVED HIM. "ONE THING YOU LACK,’ HE SAID. ‘GO & SELL EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AND GIVE IT TO THE POOR, AND YOU WILL HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN. THEN COME FOLLOW ME. 22 AT THIS THE MAN’S FACE FELL. HE WENT AWAY SAD, BECAUSE HE HAD GREAT WEALTH."

Some say that here Jesus is being called God because he was called "Good Teacher." This simply is NOT the case. Jesus here did NOT accept the title "Good" as applied to him. Rather he rejected it by saying "Why do you call me good?" For he went on to say: "Nobody is good, except one, God."

SORRY FOLKS - BUT I CAN NOT SAY HOW ANYONE COULD SAY THAT JESUS IS GOD FROM THE WORDS "GOOD TEACHER."

WHAT DOES COME TO MIND IS THE FACT THAT JESUS KNEW WITHOUT BEING TOLD THAT THIS MAN WAS RICH.

WOULD YOU KNOW IF SOME STRANGER CAME TO YOU THAT HE IS WEALTHY RICH?

I KNOW THAT I COULDN'T TELL UNLESS I WAS TOLD FIRST. BUT JESUS KNEW - THAT SURE DOES MAKE HIM SPECIAL DOESN’T IT?

Remember, there were plenty of times Jesus responded in the positive, if someone said something correct about him. Look at John 18:37: "Therefore Pilate said to him:

"Well, then, are you a king?"

Jesus answered: "You yourself are saying that I am a king."

Here Jesus acknowledged Pilate’s referral to Jesus as being a king.

Luke 22:70 which reads: "At this they all said: "Are you, therefore, the Son of God?" He said to them: "YOU yourselves are saying that I am."

Here Jesus acknowledged the religious leaders admitting that Jesus was the Son of God.

SO TRUE - SO WHAT ELSE CAN WE SAY?? JESUS IS GODS SON!

But these responses are completely different from the one Jesus gave the man who called him "Good." Jesus refused being called "Good" because only God is good, and Jesus was not God.

THIS IS ONLY THE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR & NOT THE BIBLE TEACHING - IN ISAIAH 9:6 IT TELLS US THAT JESUS IS CALLED GOD - ALSO IN MATTHEW 1:23 WE READ THAT JESUS WILL BE CALLED "IMMANUEL" WHICH MEANS "GOD IS WITH US"

IN LUKE 1:68 WE READ "PRAISE THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE HE HAS COME & REDEEMED HIS PEOPLE."

BOTH PASSAGES ARE TALKING ABOUT JESUS - YET HE IS CALLED GOD IN ALL PASSAGES.

MAKE YOUR OWN DECISION. MAY HE BLESS YOU IN YOUR SEARCH FOR HIM!!