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Misconceptions of Jesus as Savior In God we trust and God willing this article shall help many to find the truth for those honest to seek it. "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." (Jesus in Matthew 7:7 ) PART 1: Proving Jesus is NOT God How do we show that Jesus is not the Savior? First we show that he is not God. Consider the following verses in the Bible... God - Omnipotent ( All Powerful ) Matthew 19:26  Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Revelation 19:6  And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, “Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!" Jesus - NOT Omnipotent John 5:19  Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the son als...

Sura 55, Most Gracious (Al-Rahmaan) [55:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful [55:1] The Most Gracious. [55:2] Teacher of the Quran. [55:3] Creator of the human beings. [55:4] He taught them how to distinguish. [55:5] The sun and the moon are perfectly calculated. [55:6] The stars and the trees prostrate. [55:7] He constructed the sky and established the law. [55:8] You shall not transgress the law. [55:9] You shall establish justice; do not violate the law. [55:10] He created the earth for all creatures. [55:11] In it there are fruits, and date palms with their hanging fruit.* Footnote [55:12] Also grains and the spices. [55:13] (O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord's marvels can you deny? [55:14] He created the human from aged clay, like the potter's clay. [55:15] And created the jinns from blazing fire. [55:16] (O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord's marvels can you deny? [55:17] Lord of the two easts and the two wests. [55:18] Which of your Lord'...

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The resurrection narratives in the gospels do not derive directly from the primitive stage when the apostolic testimony was as yet unchallenged by the unbeliever. They reflect a somewhat later period, when the average Christian was aware of the unbeliever’s principal counterarguments against the doctrine of resurrection; namely, that Jesus’ disciples had removed his body from the tomb, or that they were victims of visionary or other objectively unreal experiences. The gospels and the tradition that preceded them carefully interwove the data of the resurrection with the replies to these arguments, so that Christians might remain in peaceful possession of their faith. [NEW AMERICAN BIBLE - Footnote to Luke 24:1-53] The above quoted footnote to Luke 24 makes it clear that the translators, who were intimately acquainted with the most ancient sources still extant, were aware that the various versions of the resurrection are contradictory. They were also aware that the versions accepted as i...