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Jason0047 said:#1. Jesus said He has power to raise the dead to life just as the Father had power to raise the dead (John 5:21).
.#1 A reference to what he could do by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Sorry, the verse doesn't say that here. Jesus simply says He has His own power. In other places in Scripture: Jesus gave credit to the working of the Father and the Spirit. However, this time He is saying He has power of His own.
Jason0047 said:#2. Hebrews 1:3 talks about how Christ held all things together by the word of His power when He purged us of our sins.
You said:#2 This passage is about Jesus being the representation of the Father's being. I do not recall anywhere in Scripture that the Father's Word (Father's power in this verse) comes from Jesus. Jesus is the Word.
"Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" (Hebrews 1:3).
Who purged us of our sins? Jesus. Skip back a few words and it says that He was upholding all things by the word of His power.
The word of His power.
Jesus.
He has has power.
Jason0047 said:#3. Jesus said, He would raise up this Temple (His body) three days later (John 2:19).
You said:#3 This was after his glory was restored and He was with the Father. God, the Father raised Jesus from the dead: Acts 2:24, Acts 2:32, Romans 6:4, Romans 8:11, 2 Corinthians 4:14, 1 Peter 3:18
No. This would also include His resurrection from the dead. He could not ascend to the Father without first having risen from the dead. Jesus said that he would raise up the temple (His body) from the dead. He does not give credit to another for this. Granted, Scripture does say all three persons of the Godhead or the Trinity were said to be involved in the resurrection.
You said:#4 Jesus never stopped being God. He could say this in unity with the Father. / Who received eternal life before he died?
Okay. This is very serious and i am going to stop here on the list. Why? Because you are failing to grasp a basic foundational truth to Christianity. Jesus did not need to receive "eternal life." Jesus is the source of "eternal life" and salvation!!!! Jesus says He is the way the truth and the Life and no man comes unto the Father but by me (See John 14:6).
Jesus came as an example for us to follow.
We can follow him in every way he did while he was alive.
While that is true to a degree, that was not the main reason why Jesus came. The main reason why Jesus came was to pay the price for man's sins so as to offer him the free gift of salvation.
You said:Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. (John 14:11-12, 1984 NIV)
Again, I believe Jesus operated power by both the Father and the Holy Spirit. But Jesus also said He had power of His own, too. It is your choice if you want to believe what He says or not.
You said:So Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me. (John 8:28, 1995 NASB)
As for Jesus saying He does nothing of His own initiative. That has nothing to do with His possessing His own divine attributes. This merely means that everything that He did was under the direction and will of the Father. Remember, Jesus could have prayed to the Father to ask for a ton of angels to protect Him instead of Peter having to use a sword to protect him in the Garden of Gethsemane. If the Father granted His prayer, He would have been acting in accordance with the Father's will.
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