The Messianic appearance of Jesus as the God appointed religious leader, reformer and savior of the Jewish believer was surely foreshadowed in the Old Testament Scriptures. This is, however, not the same as saying that Jesus was or is the earthly presence of our eternal God disguised in human flesh. It is not the same as saying that the Jesus Man-God was on the cross. It is not the same as saying that this Jesus Man-God is the new hand of God in our world. Why is all this God + theology necessary?
The assumption
that some have made equating Jesus with God is a fabrication from a time and place
that routinely gave God status to mere men. Jesus was not a mere man but he was not equal
with God. Such an understanding is not cosmologically necessary even though the
writers of the New Testament in some places make such a claim. On a few occasions we all have been wrong,
could the writers be wrong or is the Bible also our God?
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
