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Why callest ME Good...none Good but God??
longhorn:
Eugene Read Romans Chapter 7 with special attention to verse 18. Christ had the same corruptable flesh that you and I have and " Could not inherit the Kingdom of God ". 1John 4 verses 1-3 will explain your question. Jesus was not made perfect till the his resurrection Luke 13:32
Longhorn
Kat:
Hi Eugene,
Mat 19:16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, "Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?"
v. 17 So He said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
Was Jesus saying that He was not good? Jesus did know why the question was put to Him in the way that it was and answered accordingly. Could it be that this young man considered Jesus only a mere man? Could Jesus' answer have been to instruct the man in the knowledge of His proper deity?
Sometimes we hold the view of something in a certain way and we need to look at it from a different perspective. Jesus was not saying that He was not good/God, but was asking and clarifying to the man that as he did call Him/Jesus good, that he should consider where His good came from. Because as Jesus certainly was good and there is only One that is such, God... so therefore the man should understand that He was God by the goodness of the Father that He could see in Him.
Jesus was the God of the OT come down in the flesh and being in the flesh did not remove His deity. He said He was One with the Father and that certainly made Him God.
John 10:30 I and My Father are one."
v. 31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
v. 32 Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"
v. 33 The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."
v. 34 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, "I said, "You are gods"'?
v. 35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
v. 36 do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, "You are blaspheming,' because I said, "I am the Son of God'?
v. 37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
v. 38 but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Kat:
Longhorn are you comparing Jesus to Paul? Here is that verse in Romans where Paul states that in his/Pauls flesh dwells no good thing.
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find.
And why was Paul unable to perform any good? He said why a few verses before.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Paul was "sold under sin," was Jesus sold under sin like Paul? Heavens forbid such a blasphemous idea. Jesus was perfect body, Spirit and soul or He could not have been the perfect sacrifice.
1Tim 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified(G1344) in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
G1344 to render (that is, show or regard as) just or innocent: - free, justify (-ier), be righteous.
Heb 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Jesus Christ was just - innocent and "without sin." And therefore the only possible hope for mankind was Him as a 'perfect' sin offering.
Heb 7:26 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a High Priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
v. 27 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for His own sins and then for those of the people, since He did this once for all when He offered up Himself.
v.28 For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.
Our only hope of reconciliation to God is through Jesus Christ, who was "all the fullness of God" in the flesh.
2Co 5:18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
v. 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Col 1:19-20 For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of His cross.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Dave in Tenn:
Jesus is good. Jesus is God. Don't let the answer to the rich young ruler's question be worse than the question itself.
thetruth:
Hello,
I believe its in reference to what "SEED" was perceived by the ruler. As that the seed ...the Adam seed was Good....From the few point of the ruler.JESUS was going to make things straight in truth.That its only The "Last Adam"1-Cor 15-45-48 .Christ=Seed.Was good by example of Matt 4-1-11.In which I believe the Scriptures teach Christ crucified the first Adam on the cross.In Samford & Son terms
Look here Boy.The only thing that has the ability to do good is the Seed of Christ.You will never overcome within your own self {carnality} of the seed of Adam.I will go and crucify what you call good so you can eventually truly become good.
Which I think works hand and hand with:
Sometimes we hold the view of something in a certain way and we need to look at it from a different perspective. Jesus was not saying that He was not good/God, but was asking and clarifying to the man that as he did call Him/Jesus good, that he should consider where His good came from.Kat
as well as:Perhaps its simple Humility....Marques
Thats my thoughts God Bless!
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