Jesus is God because he said I am?

John 8:58, “before Abraham was, I am”…

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John 8:58

FACT: Jesus is the one who said this verse. He said “before Abraham was, I am”… And this was also a proof of others that jesus really existed before Abraham, means in the beginning.

QUESTION: Is this an evidence that Jesus have pre-existence? Or did Jesus Christ already exist in the beginning? According to the testimony of the apostles, what really existed in the beginning concerning Christ?

ANSWER: Well, let’s find out by reading the bible, let’s read acts 2:23 that says,

“This man, delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of god, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put him to death.”

Can anyone read that verse again? Okay?

FACT: It’s been testified that what existed in the beginning was the “foreknowledge of god” concerning Jesus Christ.

QUESTION: why did Jesus Christ say, “Before Abraham was I am”? Does this mean that he had pre-existence or that he had already existed even before Abraham was born?

ANSWER: Let’s read I pet. 1:20 that says,

“Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world,

he has been manifested in the last times for your sakes.”

Even before the creation of the world, Christ was already foreknown by god. That testimony is clear that what existed even before is the plan or idea in gods mind to create him. And this idea concerning the creation of Christ did not remain only as a plan of god but was also promised by him, let’s read Rom. 1:2-3 that says,

“Which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, concerning his son,

who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh.”

FACT: Christ did not exist before Abraham existed; rather, it was Abraham who existed before Christ, let’s look it up to Gal. 3:16 that says,

“Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He does not say, ‘And to seeds’,

as of many, but as one, ‘and to your seed’, who is Christ.”

Christ is the seed of Abraham, which is why it is wrong to assert that he existed before Abraham did. In other words, again, even before god created the world, he had already planned that there would be a messiah or Christ. But there was no Christ yet in existence in the beginning, contrary to what the proponents of the Christ-is-god doctrine would like us to believe, for he came to exists only when he was born of his mother like what was in gal. 4:4 that says,

“But when the fullness of the time had come, god sent forth his son,

born of a woman, born under the law”

Others believe that only god says “I am”, in other words, they believe that because jesus also said “I am” like what god said, it is automatically jesus is god, so, the equation is jesus=god.

QUESTION: But what would happen if we believe that who says “I am” in the whole content of the bible means it is god or refers to god?

ANSWER: We must remember that not only god who says “I am”, let’s read judges 13:11 that says,

"And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am."

And let’s read also john 9:9 that says,

"Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I AM he.”

So, let’s go again to the question, do only god says “I am”? Meaning if we believe that Jesus Christ is god only because he uttered the words “I am”, It means also that manoa in judges 13:11 and the blind man in john 9:9 would also be our god or gods.

exodus 3:14

QUESTION: if we believe that Jesus is the Jehovah who spoke in exodus 3:14 because jehovah uttered the statement “I AM” were true, we must accept that aside from having a Jesus who is Jehovah, there is another Jesus, who is the servant of Jehovah. Why?

ANSWER: going back to exodus, chapter 3, Jehovah or YHWH, in English word, lord, introduced himself as the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in verse 15.however, in the New Testament, the same god or Jehovah, was introduced by peter as the one who glorified Jesus, his servant. This testimony as it is written in Acts 3:13:

“The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the god of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.”

FACT: If Jesus were the god who spoke to Moses in the burning bush, then who would be his servant by the name of Jesus in Acts 3:13? Are we prepared to accept that there are two jesuses, one who is god of Abraham and one who is called the servant of the god of Abraham? Is there such a thing in the Bible as “Jesus who is the servant of Jesus”???

Well, we already know the answer, it is none. The Jesus who is the servant of god is truly different from the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

QUESTION: so, does the “I AM” statement make Christ our god, the father? Well, THINK AGAIN…