What did Yeshua mean, when telling the assembly at Sardis, “I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God”? With the Messiah saying that He has a “God,” does this possibly mean that Yeshua is not God?
Divinity of Yeshua
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews Yeshua’s statement to Mary, “I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.” When Yeshua spoke of the Father as “My God,” was this to actually imply that Yeshua was not God, Deity?
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews John 14:15-31. Did Yeshua’s statement, “the Father is greater than I,” actually mean that Yeshua could not be God, and instead a created being or entity? How do those who affirm a high Christology of Yeshua as God, approach this?
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews the dynamic message delivered by the Apostle Paul at the Areopagus (Mars Hill) in Athens. When he told the crowd, “He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed,” does this only indicate that the Messiah a human man, empowered by God?
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews Yeshua’s assertion that “No one is good except God alone.” Does this quantitatively rule out Yeshua being God?
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews Romans 10:9, 12-13, and how the intertextuality from Joel 2:32, requires someone to affirm Yeshua as Lord (YHWH) to be saved.
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses whether Micah 5:2 speaks of the Messiah only coming “from days of old” or “from the days of eternity.”
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews John 10:22-39, and the claim of blasphemy issued by the Jewish religious leaders against Yeshua.
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews a difficult concept from Psalm 82:1-8, where the One Creator God, is seen to call human mortals “gods.” How does this affect Yeshua the Messiah’s words in John 10:34-36?
There are many claims that those who deny the Divinity of Yeshua, and thus deny the Biblical reality that we must have a Divine Savior, make, in saying that Yeshua is not God. Many of the arguments that anti-Divinity proponents make tend to be sensationalistic, and they can definitely prey on various individuals’ unfamiliarity and/or ignorance of the Bible. Those who are undiscerning, and especially those who have perhaps not have had the spiritual encounter with the Creator through the Divine Messiah that they think they have had, are quite susceptible to these arguments.
It has become commonplace, when trying to challenge Yeshua as the Divine Messiah, to see various lists and compilations floating around, called something like the “Frequently Avoided Questions.” Perhaps it is because these questions are so easily answered, that various Messianic Bible teachers who fully affirm Yeshua’s Divinity, have not really taken the time to answer them. This analysis that I have provided you is intended to address ten of these specific so-called “Frequently Avoided Questions,” which are often used to claim that the Messiah is not Divine. You will find that these questions can be answered, that they are usually based on a selective reading of Scripture passages only at the surface level, and that when deeper readings of the text are conducted they fully affirm Yeshua’s Divinity. Yet, it is these questions that can get even relatively mature and Biblically-rooted Believers, caught totally off guard.