Was Jesus God?: Why Evil?

By Katheryn Maddox Haddad

(This book is similar to "The Road to Heaven") If God is so powerful, why does he allow evil?  What does Jesus dying on the cross have to do with sins being forgiven? What does "I'm saved" mean? When I am drowning, I am not saved to the shore, I am saved from the water. In a spiritual sense, we are not saved to

• Language: English
• Publisher: Northern Lights Publishing House
• Release date: Sep 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781952261305

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

Katheryn Maddox Haddad spends an average of 300 hours researching before she writes a book-ancient historians such as Josephus, archaeological digs so she can know the layout of cities, their language culture and politics. She grew up in the northern United States and now lives in Arizona where she doesn't have to shovel sunshine. She basks in 100-degree weather, palm trees, cacti, and a computer with most of the letters worn off. With a bachelor's degree in English, Bible and social science from Harding University and part of a master's degree in Bible, including Greek, from the Harding Graduate School of Theology, she also has a master's degree in management and human relations from Abilene University. She is author of forty-eight books, both non-fiction and fiction. Her newspaper column appeared for several years in newspapers in Texas and North Carolina ~ Little Known Facts About the Bible ~ and she has written for numerous Christian publications. For several years, she has been sending out every morning a daily scripture and short inspirational thought to some 30,000 people around the world. She spends half her day writing, and the other half teaching English over the internet worldwide using the Bible as textbook. She has taught over 6000 Muslims through World English Institute. Students she has converted to Christianity are in hiding in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Palestine. "They are my heroes," she declares.

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Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE.  Copyright @1960-1995 by The Lockman Foundation.

Used by permission..  Printed in the United States

ADJUSTMENTS FOR NON-CHRISTIAN READERS

Ihave published a variation of this book under the title THE ROAD TO HEAVEN. That book was written primarily for Christian readers with a working knowledge of the Bible.  Also, it has a few things in it not in this book and visa versa.

Since you are not familiar with the Bible, all citations have been moved to the back of the book in order to make reading smoother for you.  Also, this gives  you the option of checking the citations after reading the text.

Also, this version is shorter than THE ROAD TO HEAVEN because it does not have the addendum on Satan’s name and where paradise is.

In Praise of

Was Jesus God? – Bookgirl

Answers from Scripture . Was Jesus God? The author explores the scriptures to answer this question. She uses scripture from the Old Testament as well as the New Testament to show how Jesus is and always was God and what His purpose was on coming to live among us as a man. Got questions? Find answers with this book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ADJUSTMENTS FOR NON-CHRISTIAN READERS

In Praise of

Read This First

1~THERE IS ONE GOD

God, The Word

What Did Jesus Call Himself?

2~GOD & THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

Aristotle & God

The Conscience

What If The Laws Did Not Exist?

Where did It Come From?

3~THE GHASTLY TRINITY: SATAN, SIN, DEATH

Law of Nature

Existence of God

Existence of Evil

Existence of Satan

Definition of Sin

Existence of Death

4-RANSOM

The Capturing

Two Kinds of Ransom

Who are We Freed From?

He Paid the Ransom to the Ghastly Trinity

The Death Of Death

Purpose Of The World

5~SPIRITUAL & PHYSICAL

At War With Satan

God Had To Become Flesh & Blood

The Only Begotten

6~GOD Disarms Satan

A Part Of God

The Plan Is Carried Out

The Blood

7~JESUS’ LIFE BEFORE HE WAS BORN

Jesus Always Existed

What Jesus Was

Whenever God Spoke or Appeared, That Was Jesus

8~GOD MATERIALIZED

Adam & Eve

Abraham

Abraham

Abraham

Hagar

Jacob

Moses

Balaam

Joshua

Joshua & Israelites

Gideon

Samson’s Parents

Elijah

Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego

9~GOD APPEARED IN OBJECTS

A Whirlwind

A Stairway

A Burning Bush

Fire

A Pillar Of Cloud &/Or Fire

A Pillar Of Cloud

A Rock With Water

Jesus Was The Image Of The Invisible God

10~PROPHECIES OF JESUS FULFILLED

11~WHAT DOES JESUS DYING ON THE CROSS HAVE  TO DO WITH FORGIVENESS?

What Things Are Sin?

Spiritual Laws That Cannot Be Broken

What Happens To Our Soul When We Sin?

12~WHAT IS SOUL DEATH?

God Cannot Just Forgive Us.

God Had to Enter Our World

God In Flesh Paid Our Ransom

He Did What’s Impossible For Us To Do

But Not Everyone Is Forgiven

13~WHY JESUS HAD TO DIE - COME BACK TO LIFE

Adam: Physical & sinful

Mankind ~Physical & sinful Through Adam

Abraham, Father Of Faith, Not Works

Jesus, The Second Adam ~ Spiritual & sinless

HE BORE OUR SINS IN HIS BODY

Mankind Spiritual & Sinless Through Jesus

14~WHAT ABOUT JESUS’ THRONE NEXT TO GOD?

Not Two Thrones

So, Where Is Jesus Sitting?

What Is The Right Hand Of God?

Where Is He In Relation To The Throne Of God?

15~WHY ARE WE HERE?-I

For God to Have Sons & Daughters

To Rescue As Many As Possible

To Strengthen The Heavenly Spirit World

To Reveal The Mystery To

The Spirit World

To Explain Things To Angels

16 ~ WHY ARE WE HERE?-II

To Strengthen Us

Why Do We Need Strengthening?

17~HOW HARD IS IT?

We Don’t Like Rules

We Think We’re Good Enough

We Don’t Get The Big Picture

18~HOW LONG?

Why Doesn’t God Eliminate Evil?

Suffering Builds Muscles

Suffering is Our Birth Pains

19~JESUS’ GLORIOUS BODY

His Body Had Healing Powers

His Body Could Walk On Water

His Body Could Glow Like the Sun

His Body Could Become Invisible

His Body Could Walk Through Walls

His Body Could Not Decay

His Body Could Change Shape

His Body Could Soar

His Body Seen Everywhere at Once

His Body Recognizable to Everyone

And Our Body Over There?

20~SO WHAT ABOUT HEAVEN?

Terrible Things Go On in the Spirit World

There Is Constant War In The Spirit World

Why War in the Spirit World?

We Are Part of that War

Only Room Enough in the Spirit World for God

God Never Promised We Would Be Everywhere

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Read This First

Atheists have always challenged God and who he is. More and more Christians are being challenged.

Perhaps some of the cause of the past century’s growing atheism is because of immigrants with other beliefs.  Buddhists who immigrated during the Viet Nam War influenced us; Buddhism declares there is no such thing as truth and that God is just the essence of the universe. Hindus immigrated in great waves after the Viet Nam War when President Lyndon Johnson lifted many immigration restrictions. Hindus believe in thousands of gods, so have no problem adding the Christian God to their list. 

Now after war in the Middle east, the western world has many Muslim immigrants, victims of the bad side of their own religion, but bringing with them other parts of the religion they were born into. Many are confused about Christianity.

Since most immigrants currently are Muslims and they/you grew up being given misinformation about the God of the Christians, I have written parts of this book with them/you in mind. Over the past ten years, I have taught English using the Bible as a text book to over 7000 Muslims, mostly in the Middle East, through World English Institute. They talk to me, not as a politician or reporter, but as their teacher.  They have five main objections to Christianity.

(1) Their main objection is that Christians believe in three Gods because we talk about God being three persons.

What is a person? Never does the Bible call God’s attributes his persons. Miriam Webster’s Dictionary defines person as the self. God does not have three selves. The self is defined as (a) an individual’s character; (b) the entire person of an individual; (c) the union of elements such as thoughts, body, emotions, sensations that constitute the individuality and identity of a person. If God were three persons, he would be three different individuals with different thoughts, emotions, etc.

Here are Bible verses saying God is one:

~ "Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!" [1]

~ Jesus answered, ‘The foremost is, Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord.’ [2]

~ "Since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one." [3]

~ "You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder." [4]

So, how do we reconcile this with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? Or are the Muslims correct in accusing us of believing in three Gods or perhaps two Gods plus the Holy Spirit?

Actually, they think our three Gods are God, Jesus, and Mary. They do not think of the Holy Spirit as separate from God, and neither do Christians.

Many atheists accuse Christians of believing these very same things. I dare say that not a few Christians ask these same questions but slide them under the table of their minds and just don’t face them because they do not know how to study through them in the Bible.

Here are other objections closely related to this by people of other world religions about Jesus.

(2) They are told that Christians believe God married Mary and then Jesus became God’s only begotten son.

(3) They do not understand how one man can take other people’s punishment for their Sins on a cross, thus leaving all those people to go on sinning as much as they want.

(4) They believe Jesus was a prophet and that God would not be so cruel as to make Jesus suffer on a cross.

(5) They say, If Jesus was God and dead three days, that means God was dead three days.

Well, come along with me as we try to work through these complicated issues. You may not agree with everything, but herein I offer you food for thought in an effort to draw us closer to the only God who exists and in whom we live, we move, and we have our being.

1~THERE IS ONE GOD

God is One, not many . When you speak into a audio recorder and your voice then comes out of that machine for other people to hear, that doesn't make you two. You are still one; you have just chosen to put your voice in something where you can be heard by more people or people far away. That audio recording is just another form of your voice.

You can stand in front of a movie camera and move around and speak. Then what you did can be shown on computer, television, and movie screens throughout the world. Does that mean there are now two of you ~ one in your body and one in the film? Or would that make hundreds of you ~ one in your body and one in each of the computers, televisions and theaters in the world?

God is One, and yet he revealed a part of himself in a burning bush to Moses just like you revealed a part of yourself in the audio recorder. Does that mean there were two Gods ~ one in heaven and one in the bush? No. God can reveal himself in different things if he wants to.

Today, God has his Word on paper and ink in a holy book. He has made his words visible to us in physical form. He is still not many Gods ~ one in heaven and thousands in all the copies of his holy books around the world. He is still one God.

To say God needs no partners as the Qur’an does is the same as denying we have a body, and declaring, "My mind