Bible Questions and Answers

What is the meaning of John 10:30? If Jesus is not God, how do you explain John 20:28, Isaiah 9:6, and John 5:18? 

John 10:30 I and My Father are one.  This means one in purpose. Jesus prays that his disciples might be one in the same way that he and his Father were one. Clearly his disciples are not God.

• John 17:11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as we are.
• John 17:22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:

Isaiah 9:6  For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

• Mighty God is a description of Jesus as the only begotten Son of God given authority over all creation following his resurrection from the dead.
• Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

Everlasting Father describes his relationship to the faithful of all generations who owe their future resurrection to eternal life to his sacrificial death.

• Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
• Jesus had no physical descendants, his ‘seed’ are those who believe and obey the Gospel.

John 5:18 Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

• The Jews didn’t think he was God, they knew better than that. Jesus claimed to be the Son of God, which he was. This in the eyes of the Jews gave him authority second only to God, which it did.
• Jesus never claimed equality with his Father. In fact he said his Father was greater than himself.
• John 14:28 "You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.
• Also, his Father knows things that he doesn’t.
• Mark 13:32  But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
• Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
• And his Father has greater authority than he does. Matthew 20:23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
• The clincher is that Jesus actually died. God cannot die. 1 Timothy 6:16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

We are clearly told that Jesus was a man, subject to the same temptations as we are.

• Hebrews 4:15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. God cannot be tempted to sin.

Jesus needed God to raise him from the dead – he couldn’t raise himself. Acts 2:32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.

• Acts 4:10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.
• Acts 10:40 Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly
• Acts 13:30 But God raised Him from the dead.
• Acts 13:37 but He whom God raised up saw no corruption.

Please read One God or a Trinity (please click on the title) One God or a Trinity?

I hope this helps.

God bless,
Glenn