Is Jesus God? Let the Bible Unfold Its Own Mysteries

By Vincent Ntema Sazita

Is Jesus God? has been a long standing question that protracted over millennia and has continued to extend from the past, the present and to the unforeseeable future. Man has tried to research on the fact of whether Jesus is God or not and each time he digs further into this question, he ends in whims. But here, is the answer for the millennia long search. This book answers all questions relating to this issue and clearly explains each quizzical and mythical confrontation on whether Jesus is God. The ambiguities from the Bible, which have inclinations on addressing Jesus as God have been identified and explained extensively. Further, the book addresses the trinity issue and deeply searches the statements from God Himself as to whether He said Jesus was God and as well requiring the same statement from Jesus Himself on this similar issue.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: Mar 31, 2016
• ISBN: 9781482861761

Vincent Ntema Sazita

Dr Vincent Ntema Sazita awarded a scholarship by Konrad Adenaur Foundation through Namibia Agricultural Union to study towards a Diploma in Project Management and Project Administration for Senior Officials of Non-Governmental Overseas Organizations at Akademie Klausenhof in Germany and completed this in 1991. After completion, he worked as Regional Coordinator in Namibia Agriculture Union until May 1994. From 1 June 1994 he worked as teacher at Caprivi Senior Secondary School until the end of that year. In 1995, he was awarded a bursary by the Namibian Government to study a National Diploma in Health Sciences in the Faculty of Science at Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa. He further completed a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Environmental Health Sciences in 1999 and a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Public Management at the same University in 2000. After the completion of a National Diploma in Environmental Health Sciences in the Faculty of Science at Peninsula University of Technology in 1997, he was appointed Environmental Health Practitioner at Okakarara Health District in Otjozondjupa Region from 2 March 1998-21 May 1999. He was transferred to Okahandja Health District Hospital where he served from May 1999 to the end of December 2001 in the same position. Dr Sazita completed his master’s degree in administration in the Faculty of Economics and Management Science (Department of Political and Administrative Studies) at the University of Namibia in 2002 and studied his doctor of philosophy (PhD) in public administration in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration at North-West University in South Africa and completed on 17 October 2008. On 2 January 2002, he was appointed manager of community services and public health at Okahandja Municipality, a position he served in until his appointment as chief executive officer at Katima Mulilo Town Council in the Zambezi Region on 5 March 2007 until 14 October 2011. He then proceeded to Windhoek and was appointed part-time lecturer at Namibia University of Science and Technology in the Department of Public Management, where he was lecturer in political and administrative studies. He was appointed at the International University of Management on 1 January 2013 as senior lecturer and later appointed as head of department in the Faculty of Strategic Management and Business Administration. He is also appointed chairperson of the Higher Degrees Committee at the same university. Dr Sazita completed his postgraduate certificate in tertiary education management, research, and policy in 2014 with the University of Melbourne in Australia and is currently enrolled for a master’s degree in tertiary education management at the same University of Melbourne (Australia). Dr Sazita is an author who has over the past three decades written many books, ranging from novels, journals, religious booklets, fairy tales, poetry, drama, orthographies, dictionaries, and many more, which are used in Namibian government schools and the universities around the globe. He also contributes to writing on conflicts, political, finances, economics, governance, and administrative publications that have won him credibility both nationally and internationally. His art of writing began while he was still in form IV (grade 11), where he produced two published books while he was still at a classroom level.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1 Did Jesus Exist Before Creation?

Chapter 2 Who Created Jesus?

Chapter 3 The Appearance of God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit at One Place

Chapter 4 Did Jesus Openly State that He is God?

Chapter 5 Did God Openly Declare that Jesus is His Son?

Chapter 6 Has Man Ever Seen God?

Chapter 7 God Working during the Incarnation of Jesus Christ

Chapter 8 The Ambiguities and Biblical Expressions of the Deity of Jesus Christ

About the Author

INTRODUCTION

The author of this booklet wishes to inform the readers about the issues relating to whether Jesus is God, whether there is God who is the Father of Jesus and our Father; as well as looking into the Holy Spirit as the third personality of the deity.

Honestly, God is the Father, Jesus is the Son of God and the Holy Spirit is the Agent of God and the three constitute the godhead. It should be clearly noted that God is the highest in this order, Jesus Christ is the second and the Holy Spirit is the third.

When Jesus was bidding farewell to his disciples at the book of Matthew 28:18-20, he recognised this order saying: Then Jesus came to them and said, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. In this statement Jesus begins by saying that all the authority has been given to Him. This in itself means that He acknowledged that He got this authority from His Father. In John 14:28, Jesus says he was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than Him. Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:3 says that God is the head of Jesus. In simpler terms Paul meant to say that God is higher than Jesus Christ. God is superior to Jesus Christ.

When Lucifer decided to fight heaven, his war was against Jesus the Son of God, because he felt that Jesus was given more honour by God and His angels as compared to him who was an angel of higher honour carrying the light wherever God was.

Furthermore, when Jesus was giving a farewell address in John 14:1-3, he stated that the hearts of the disciples should not be troubled, because He was going to His Father in heaven and that there in heaven were many mansions in His Father's house for which if it were not so, He would have not told them so. He said that they should believe in God and believe in Him also, because He was the agent of God who came to do God's work and plans for the world to know who God is and what His intentions about this world were.

From one generation to the next generation, this question has been asked and we really need to find the truth from what God and Jesus tell us in the Holy Scriptures regarding this question. Man has become wiser and wiser in each century coming and passing and the world of technology stretches wider and wider to search some of the mysteries that God had put in both heaven and earth, but to some extent, human knowledge lacks as it has to end somewhere in time and space. While this remains so, where we end is where God continues to teach us that, indeed, we were created by Him. Our failures cannot be attributed to the fact that God does not know or is not aware of what he created Himself and the purpose for creating whatever is created. The search for the truth should not go beyond or above what God wants humankind to know. Instead we should be guided by realities and the wisdom that comes from God Himself. Aside knowing God, human beings become null and void.

The very reasons and foundations of who created Jesus Christ are crucial to our understanding. We have to understand logics and realities and how these logics and realities could be best interpreted using the scriptures and not human understanding alone. Creating means you cause to exist something that you feel should be part of the systems that you design and desire to see operating to the very reasons that you have hoped to create that thing for.

During the Old Testament times the Lord God was the one who was addressed at most incidences. He could send angels to appear on His behalf and give messages to the people. Clearly Jesus and the Holy Spirit existed during all these periods but in their different forms and images.

God does not die at any given point, because He is immortal. How can God come and die for the creature that He had created when He Himself has stated that Jesus would go for this on the cross. Isaiah 53:1-12 shows that even in old times God had a mission with Christ to accomplish. In the Garden of Eden was planted a tree of life and when Adam and Eve had sinned, God forbade that they should go and eat from it and then live forever such as He and His Son and the angels who had not sinned. The attributes of God are that He is immortal, eternal, invisible and all powerful, creator of heaven and earth and all that in them is. If He possesses such attributes, how would man belittle such accolades by saying that He died on the cross? God is invisible and has kept that profile. God would