Jesus is Exclusively God

WILLIAM says: April 15, 2020

Your premise that Christians are supposed to be intolerant to the people who don’t believe in Jesus is flawed. Jesus taught us to love everyone, as evident from His words and also His implication to the people of that time to love the Romans who were ruling at that time. The verse you quote under religious intolerance is hugely misquoted: that was when God sent them as a judgement upon the Canaanites and Hittites and other nations which were doing things like child sacrifices. It’s not nice of you to give people the wrong idea about Christianity, just because of shallow reading and misquoting! But yes, Jesus is exclusively God.

ADMIN says: April 16, 2020

Dear William,

Thank you for sharing your views.

You said, “Jesus is exclusively God”, is not that Jesus is “Son” of God? Please also clarify when a Hindu pray to Lord Krishna, is he or she praying ultimately to Jesus? The same way, when a Muslim pray to Allah, is that Muslim actually praying to Jesus, the Allah(God)?

Please clarify what you found in this article that is misquoted from the Bible. We will correct it.

Jesus said Love thy neighbour. In context of interfaith marriages, can a “Hindu” marry to a Christian? Can a Christian love and truly respect the “Hindu” spouse in their marriage? Let us know if you are a believer that the Hindu party must be converted by baptism before the church wedding.

WILLIAM says: May 15, 2020

Sorry for the delay in replying! I was caught up in my college coursework.

I’ll respond to your reply first. Please read carefully!

1. God exists as a trinity, according to the Bible. The Trinity involves 3 persons: The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. So yes, Jesus is both God and the Son of the Father.

Many people think the trinity is a meaningless concept. I encourage you to watch this video which explains this difficult concept quite simply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFSN-Ix7iE

2. Jesus told us to address our prayers to God the Father in the name of Jesus. That is because we really can’t approach God without being holy like Him.

Jesus changes that because of His sacrifice on the cross, by which He gives us His righteousness and holiness freely. All that we have to do is accept that we are not good enough in God’s standards (which is true, our inner thoughts are rotten, even if we look like good people outside), and acknowledge that Jesus’s death and resurrection is the only thing that can let us approach God,

So when someone prays to God, He doesn’t have an obligation to answer them, unless the prayer is in the name of His Son.

And someone who prays to “Krishna” isn’t praying to the God of the Bible, beacause they are different people. Just a basic comparison will reveal irreconcilable differences which will tell you quite bluntly that either Krishna is real or the Triune God of the Bible.

Please remember that although our society teaches us otherwise, all religions are not one, and all gods are not the same. Especially Christianity. You may say “All religions teach the same things, like love others, be gentle….” But I will say this: All religions are at best superficially similar, but are fundamentally different.

I will elaborate on these differences with a few examples, please follow:

The Bible says man can never be good enough (Romans 3:23) to approach God. Instead of asking you to try to be “good enough” to get into heaven, the Bible tells you to put your trust in Jesus, and He will give you His righteousness (Phillipians 3:9, Romans 5:17). The focus on Christianity is not on becoming a “good person” and do “good deeds”, but it is on getting into a relationship with our Creator and allow His love to change our hearts. There is no need to follow the law if we love God: we would automatically do everything that is demanded by the law.

On the other hand, all other religions talk about what things you could do as “good deeds” to get “positive karma”. Many religions also talk about “eradication of desires” “emptying of the mind” and many such sophisicated but unnecessary and unreal concepts. First: positive karma won’t help you. Why? You still have done wrong things. Just because a criminal did more good than bad doesn’t mean the judge can let him go. He will have to pay for his crimes. Other religions have no way to deal with this except by compromising on the character of God (either they say He simply forgives them, or ignore it altogether; both are incorrect: God is the very definition of justice and cannot overlook past mistakes.).

The only way is through Jesus, because there is no way to approach God without the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Any other method or idealogy simply falls short or goes off in the wrong direction.

3. What you misquoted I will respond to again, maybe citing all of it in a later comment. I’ve written too much today 😅!

4. Jesus said to love our neighbor. Yes. That is the love and concern that I have for everyone (including you) and that comes as an overflow in our heart of God’s love for us. It is automatic, like how I mentioned earlier. “Love your neighbor” doesn’t mean “Marry your neighbor”. It is not romantic love that Jesus speaks of here!

5. Yes, the Bible instructs a man to love his wife the way Jesus loved humans, unconditionally. (Ephesians 5:25) That’s a heavy statement.

6. Baptism is just a public statement of faith. Personally, instead of seeing this as some ritual that needs to be performed in order to legalize the wedlock, I would say the man and his girl should be united only after they agree that Christ is Lord alone, and our only hope of reaching God. –William

More information: Interfaith marriage with equality, Hindu-Christian Marriage, Bible on Hindus? Christian-Hindu relationships, Marriage & Divorce laws.
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