Why Did Jesus Christ not say “I am God”?

Why did Jesus not tell us He is God?

Jesus never said "I am God worship me". Neither does the bible say "Jesus is God worship Him"

Why?

Because we can only be reconciled to God through FAITH. We are to HEAR the gospel and BELIEVE. Only then will we be born again and reconciled to God. 

So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”

Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”29 Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. John 20”

Unfortunately, hardly anyone knows the gospel of peace which is based on the love of God. 

So most professing Christians will give you a bible instead, so you can work out for yourself who Jesus Christ is. But you will never be able to work out who Jesus Christ is by searching for proof. As Jesus Himself self says in John 5.39/40

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.   But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

You can only be reconciled to God through FAITH, which comes by HEARING and BELIEIVING.

But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” 17Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. 18But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” Romans 10

You see, the word of God never comes back void  Isaiah 55:11, so when people hear the good news (gospel) they either believe it or reject it. 

That is why the Lord writes in His scriptures 1 Corinthians 1:

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

God Almighty coming down to earth and going to the cross is foolishness to the proud (those who are perishing) but to us (who humbled ourselves and BELIEVED) it is the POWER of God.

There is no power in God Almighty taking someone else (whether he be a created mortal being or a second person of the trinity) and sacrificing him to the cross. Satan does this all the time, he has done it back then and still today children or being sacrificed to satan. No, this is not powerful. The power of God is in this, that He defeated evil with good, meaning, He defeated wickedness with self sacrifice, not murder!

That is why God came in the likeness of a man, a servant, because He is our Master and the servants of the Master will have to lower themselves even lower than their Master. So everyone who is proud, will not be able to accept Jesus the Christ as God. Because they want to bathe in the glory of God. They say to themselves “How can we follow a God who is so low and of no reputation?!” They say these things for their hearts are proud and they would never want to be associated with someone who has a low reputation. 

Those wicked ones will say "Oh did God poop in his nappy?" "Was he breastfed by His mother" and so on. They are the mockers of God while calling themselves "Christians". They are not Christians but DECEIVED. God has given them over to their sins.

God Almighty came as a servant peaceful and good, so when these proud people killed Him, the killers’ conscience (and everyone else who mocked and hurt Him) would be convicted of their wrong doings, which will hopefully lead them to salvation! Because now they know what they have done and can REPENT! That is why it is so important that God (Holy Spirit) comes again, so He can convict us of our wrong doings, we can then choose to repent and BELIEVE and hence can be saved! 

That’s why Jesus said, Forgive them for they do not know

The law of Moses was given so people would have a set of rules which told them what is right and wrong because they did not know in their hearts, but Jesus came to give them a conscience and write that law, the law of God,  on their heart, so when they did wrong, they now felt convicted and could repent!

That’s why we are to come as gentle doves, sheep. And not retaliate when they persecute us, because we are not greater than our Master and our Master has made the Way in which we can be saved, by being convicted of our wrong doings and then through the rebirth reconciled to Him after we repent.

And because God is forgiving and merciful He made a Way that He could forgive us, should we want forgiveness, by being reconciled with Him in Spirit, after we repent and become born again.

That’s why God said, He who has seen Me has seen the Father (in His glory!). So many people are waiting for God's glory to appear as a glorious God coming to earth, but God showed His glory and might by making sinners holy, Because through Jesus, and His low reputation and us humbling ourselves even below Jesus, we become exalted and holy and THAT is the glory of God, His MERCY and POWER.

There is one more reason that I am aware of, why God didnt come telling people "I am God worship me".

Remember Jesus said that all blasphemies against the son of man can be forgiven, but blasphemies against the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven. 

If Jesus had told people that He was God Almighty (Holy Spirit) and they blasphemed Him KNOWING who He was, they could have never had forgiveness. But because they believed He was just a son of man, those blasphemies could be forgiven them. That is why Paul was forgiven because He persecuted Jesus in ignorance and unbelief. Yet the couple who sold their property and withheld money and lied to the Holy Spirit died on the spot, because they knew who they were lying to.

Hallelujah! This is the LOVE of God, that while we were His enemies, He came to die for us. He protected us and went to the cross for us. 


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