The Son Of Man - Son Of God

Son of God or Man?

Huios Theou or Huios Anthropou?

Matthew 4:3 - The tempter came to Him and said, "If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." (Huios Theou) ["The Tempter" speaking to Jesus]

Matthew 4:6 - "If You are the Son of God," he said, "throw Yourself down." (Huios Theou) ["The Tempter" speaking to Jesus]

Matthew 8:20 - Jesus replied, "Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head." (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 8:29 - “What do you want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?” (Huie Theou) [Demons speaking to Jesus]

Matthew 9:5-6 - "Which is easier: to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk?' But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins..." Then He said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your mat, and go home." (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 10:23 - When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. (Huios tou Anthropou)

Matthew 11:19 - The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' But wisdom is proved right by her deeds. (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 12:8 - For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. (Huios tou Anthropou)

Matthew 12:32 - Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come. (Huiou Anthropou)

Matthew 12:40 - For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 13:37 - He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. (Huios Antrhopou)

Matthew 13:41 - The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness. (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 14:33 - Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God." (Huios Theou)

Matthew 16:13 - When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" (Huion tou Anthropou)

Matthew 16:27 - For the Son of Man (Huios tou Anthropou) will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done. Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man (Huion Anthropou) coming in His kingdom.

Matthew 17:9 - As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, "Do not tell anyone about this vision until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead." (Huios Antrhopou)

Matthew 17:12 - But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands. (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 17:22 - When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men." (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 19:28 - Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 20:18 - Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death... (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 20:28 - just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 24:26-27 - So if they tell you, 'There He is in the wilderness,' do not go out; or, 'Here He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. (Huiou Anthropou)

Matthew 24:30 - At that time the sign of the Son of Man (Huiou Anthropou) will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man (Huion Anthropou) coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.

Matthew 24:36-39 - No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son (Huios), but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man (Huiou Anthropou). For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. (Huiou Anthropou)

Matthew 24:44 - For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect. (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 25:31 - When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 26:2 - "You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified." (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 26:24 - The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born." (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 26:45 - Then He returned to the disciples and said, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners." (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 26:63 - Then the high priest said to Him, "I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God." (Huios Theou) [High priest speaking to Jesus]

Matthew 26:64 - "You have said it yourself," Jesus answered. "But I say to all of you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven." (Huios Anthropou)

Matthew 27:40 - "You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" (Huios Theou) [Jews speaking to Jesus]

Matthew 27:43 - He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, 'I am the Son of God.' (Huios Theou) [A priest speaking about Jesus]

Matthew 27:54 - When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and said, "Truly this was the Son of God." (Huios Theou) [Centurion speaking about Jesus]

Mark 1:1 - Introduces Jesus as the "Son of God" (Huios Theou)

Mark 5:7 - Demons (Legion) refer to Jesus as "Son of the Most High God" (Hypsistou Theou)

Luke 1:32 - Gabriel tells Mary that Jesus will be called "Son of the Most High" (Huios Hypsistou)

Luke 1:34-35 - And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be borne will be called holy—the Son of God." (Huios Theou)

Luke 3:23-38 - Jesus's genealogy of "son of Joseph" through "son of Adam, son of God" (tou Theou)

Luke 4:34 - Demons refer to Jesus as "Holy one of God" (Hagios Theou)

Luke 4:41 - Demons refer to Jesus as "You are the Son of God" (Huios Theou)

John 5:25-27 - Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God (Huiou Theou), and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself. And He has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man. (Huios Anthropou)

John 10:34-36 - Jesus replied, "Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’ [Psalm 82]? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came - and the Scripture cannot be broken - then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?" (Huios Theou)

Jesus accused by a High Priest

Matthew 26:63-64 - Jewish high priest charged Jesus of claiming to be "the Christ" (Christos) and the "Son of God" (Huios Theou) - Jesus responds "You say so." (Sy eipas) "you will see the Son of Man..." (Huion Anthropou)

Mark 14:61-62 - Jewish high priest charged Jesus of claiming to be "the Christ" (Christos) and the "Son of the Blessed One" (Huios tou Eulogetos) - Jesus responds "I am and you will see the Son of Man..." (Huion Anthropou)

Luke 22:67-69 - Jewish high priest charged Jesus of claiming to be "the Christ" (Christos) - Jesus responds "You wouldn't believe" and "But now the Son of Man..." (Huios Anthropou)

Pontius Pilate questions Jesus

Matthew 27:11 - Pilate asks "Are you King of the Jews" - Jesus responds "You say so" (Sy legeis)

Mark 15:2 - Pilate asks "Are you King of the Jews" - Jesus responds "You say so" (Sy legeis)

Luke 23:3 - Pilate asks "Are you King of the Jews" - Jesus responds "You say so" (Sy legeis)

John 18:33-37 - Pilate asks "Are you King of the Jews" - Jesus responds "Do you ask" (Sy legeis) "or do others accuse me" [paraphrased] - Pilate asks "So are you a king" - Jesus responds "You say that I am a king" (Sy legeis)

Fulfillment of Isaiah

Matthew 1:21-23 - An angel of the Lord to Joseph: "She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins." All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel."[Isaiah 7:14] (which means, God with us). (Theos Meth' Hemon)

Power is Transitive

Matthew 21:21-22 - “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Forgive Us Our Debts - Re-Blog

Imagine I were to give you the following assignment: "I want you to sit down with a non-Christian who knows nothing of the Bible. He has only vaguely heard of Jesus Christ, and he's not even sure there is a God. I want you to explain to him how to become a Christian." Would you be able to do that? Could you sit down with somebody and explain simply what it means to become a Christian?

Many Christians don’t have a clear understanding what we're asking people to do when we ask them to become a Christian. What is it about? It's found in this phrase, "Forgive us our debts." In this phrase there are two profound implications to this simple request.

First, that request implies we have all sinned. Whenever you talk to people about their need for Jesus Christ, you have to begin with sin. Without the bad news, there is no good news. And here is the bad news: there is a God in heaven who has an objective list of requirements, and all of us have fallen short of those requirements. The Bible says, "There is none righteous, not even one... For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:10, 23). Most of us have a hard time believing that we really are in need of forgiveness because we compare ourselves to other people. We think as long as we haven't molested a child or committed murder, we're pretty good. Not perfect, but good enough. Yet the standard God uses to judge us is not other people. His standard is His perfect Son, Jesus Christ. And the Bible says that compared to the perfection of Jesus Christ, we have all fallen short. All of us have sinned.

Second, we owe God for our sin. Because we have sinned against God, we owe God a debt for the sin we have committed. What is that debt? Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death." Not just physical death but eternal death, eternal separation from God. We’ve all sinned. But here is the essence of the Christian message: Jesus Christ paid for our sin. When Jesus died on the cross, He paid our debt for us.

Here is the most important issue of your entire life: Who is going to pay for your sin? You have a choice. You can say, "God, I'll try to pay it myself." Then you will spend all eternity in hell trying to pay that sin debt, and it will never be paid off. Or you can choose to allow Jesus Christ to pay your debt for you. That's what He did when He died on the cross. He offered to take care of that debt for you. When you become a Christian, what you're doing is kneeling before a holy God and saying, "God, I know I've offended You. I know I have wronged You. I know I need to suffer for my sin, but I believe Jesus came and paid the debt for my sin in full. And I'm trusting in the name of Jesus to save me." The Bible says when we cry out to God in that way, He takes our faith and exchanges it for His perfect righteousness. That's what we're saying when we pray, "Father, forgive us our debts."

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Forgive Us Our Debts - Pathway to Victory

a most perfect and sublime system of morals

In a comparative view of the Ethics of the enlightened nations of antiquity, of the Jews and of Jesus, no notice should be taken of the corruptions of reason among the ancients, to wit, the idolatry & superstition of the vulgar, nor of the corruptions of Christianity by the learned among its professors.

Let a just view be taken of the moral principles inculcated by the most esteemed of the sects of ancient philosophy, or of their individuals; particularly Pythagoras, Socrates, Epicurus, Cicero, Epictetus, Seneca, Antoninus.

I. PHILOSOPHERS. 1. Their precepts related chiefly to ourselves, and the government of those passions which, unrestrained, would disturb our tranquillity of mind. In this branch of philosophy they were really great.

2. In developing our duties to others, they were short and defective. They embraced, indeed, the circles of kindred & friends, and inculcated patriotism, or the love of our country in the aggregate, as a primary obligation: toward our neighbors & countrymen they taught justice, but scarcely viewed them as within the circle of benevolence. Still less have they inculcated peace, charity & love to our fellow men, or embraced with benevolence the whole family of mankind.

II. JEWS. 1. Their system was Deism; that is, the belief of one only God. But their ideas of him & of his attributes were degrading & injurious.

2. Their Ethics were not only imperfect, but often irreconcilable with the sound dictates of reason & morality, as they respect intercourse with those around us; & repulsive & anti-social, as respecting other nations. They needed reformation, therefore, in an eminent degree.

III. JESUS. In this state of things among the Jews, Jesus appeared. His parentage was obscure; his condition poor; his education null; his natural endowments great; his life correct and innocent: he was meek, benevolent, patient, firm, disinterested, & of the sublimest eloquence.

The disadvantages under which his doctrines appear are remarkable.

1. Like Socrates & Epictetus, he wrote nothing himself.

2. But he had not, like them, a Xenophon or an Arrian to write for him. On the contrary, all the learned of his country, entrenched in its power and riches, were opposed to him, lest his labors should undermine their advantages; and the committing to writing his life & doctrines fell on the most unlettered & ignorant men; who wrote, too, from memory, & not till long after the transactions had passed.

3. According to the ordinary fate of those who attempt to enlighten and reform mankind, he fell an early victim to the jealousy & combination of the altar and the throne, at about 33. years of age, his reason having not yet attained the maximum of its energy, nor the course of his preaching, which was but of 3. years at most, presented occasions for developing a complete system of morals.

4. Hence the doctrines which he really delivered were defective as a whole, and fragments only of what he did deliver have come to us mutilated, misstated, & often unintelligible.

5. They have been still more disfigured by the corruptions of schismatising followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating & perverting the simple doctrines he taught by engrafting on them the mysticisms of a Grecian sophist, frittering them into subtleties, & obscuring them with jargon, until they have caused good men to reject the whole in disgust, & to view Jesus himself as an impostor.

Notwithstanding these disadvantages, a system of morals is presented to us, which, if filled up in the true style and spirit of the rich fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught by man.

The question of his being a member of the Godhead, or in direct communication with it, claimed for him by some of his followers, and denied by others, is foreign to the present view, which is merely an estimate of the intrinsic merit of his doctrines.

1. He corrected the Deism of the Jews, confirming them in their belief of one only God, and giving them juster notions of his attributes and government.

2. His moral doctrines, relating to kindred & friends, were more pure & perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers, and greatly more so than those of the Jews; and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants and common aids. A development of this head will evince the peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others.

3. The precepts of philosophy, & of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. He pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.

4. He taught, emphatically, the doctrines of a future state, which was either doubted, or disbelieved by the Jews; and wielded it with efficacy, as an important incentive, supplementary to the other motives to moral conduct.

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From Thomas Jefferson: Letters: SYLLABUS OF AN ESTIMATE OF THE MERIT OF THE DOCTRINES OF JESUS, COMPARED WITH THOSE OF OTHERS - April 1803

Jesus Christ; super star

LETTER OF THOMAS JEFFERSON TO WILLIAM SHORT, APRIL 13, 1820

"But while this Syllabus is meant to place the character of Jesus in it's true and high light, as no imposter himself but a great Reformer of the Hebrew code of religion, it is not to be understood that I am with him in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it &c. &c. It is the innocence of his character, the purity & sublimity of his moral precepts, the eloquence of his inculcations, the beauty of the apologias in which he conveys them, that I so much admire; sometimes indeed needing indulgence to Eastern hyperbolism. My eulogies too may be founded on a postulate which all may not be ready to grant. Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. I seperate therefore the gold from the dross; restore to him the former & leave the latter to the stupidity of some, and roguery of others of his disciples. Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and firm corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus. These palpable interpolations and falsifications of his doctrines led me to try to sift them apart. I found the work obvious and easy, and that his part composed the most beautiful morsel of morality which has been given to us by man. The Syllabus is therefore of his doctrines, not all of mine. I read them as I do those of other antient and modern moralists, with a mixture of approbation and disent."

why is it so unbelievable that Jesus was right?... how is it such a mystery that much of the christian Bible is well-intentioned errors?... even Thomas Jefferson understood that religion was important, possibly the MOST important thing to the health of people and society as a whole, but it was only to be understood through calm and logical reasoning...

the laity could only handle the most obvious and benign passages in their religious infancy... the fullness of the "word" is complex and difficult to master... the majority of Christians do not understand that they are simply a sect of Judaism... Jesus was a Rabbi who taught the Torah... it is his clear understanding of the meaning of the Jewish law that made him the savior of the people who follow him... when Jesus speaks in the "New Testament", he is only teaching from the "Old Testament"... it does not supersede the writings which came before... it is only guide to the "word" of God...

take, for instance, the "Gospels"... the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all tell reasonably the same tale of the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth... but on a simple reading of them, it becomes evident that these four books were written by four people who either never witnessed the events, or have bizarrely different recollections of the events... even the language used is so different as to change the story on its most basic level...

for example, Matthew, Mark and Luke all quote Jesus as referring to the "Son of Man" (presumably about himself)... John, however, insists on quoting him as "Son of God" (most definitely about himself)... but any good reading of the Torah (or Old Testament, if you wish) finds that applying the term Son of God to one's self would be heresy/blasphemy/downright-evil... Jesus, a rabbi and devout Jew, knows this... so, what did Jesus really say?...

consider the lynch-pin story of the Jesus story; his arrest and sentencing... when Jesus went before the Sanhedrin, each book has an important detail told differently... the chief priest asks point-blank if Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God... Matthew's Jesus replies, "You say it is so"... Mark's Jesus replies a definite, "I am"... Luke's Jesus plays coy; "If I tell you, you wouldn't believe" which could be taken either way (if he says yes, they disbelieve; no, they still disbelieve)... John's Jesus, though he claims title of Son of God throughout John's book, when asked says, "You say I am King [of the Jews]"...

if the four Gospels cannot tell the most important story the same, what makes anyone believe that the rest of the Bible is at all accurate?...

i know this may seem counter-intuitive, but the inaccuracies are proof of the validity of the story... maybe the details are wrong, but the story is true... was there a person known as Jesus who was convicted by the Sanhedrin of blaphemy?... of course... this can be verified even through non-biblical sources, but let's stay with the Bible... did this Jesus person have a following to whom he taught?... yes... did he teach from the Torah?... yes... did he teach his congregation through parable?... obviously...

and did those who wrote it down ever get it wrong?... let he who is without sin, cast the first stone...