Is Jesus God?

Jesus never claimed to be God. In fact, he went to great pains to attribute all that he did to his Father as an entirely separate and superior entity. When he said that he and his Father were one he meant that they were one in spirit or mind not body. On the occasion of the ascension, in the presence of three of his disciples, a voice from heaven said, "this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased"(Matt 3:17). It is against all logic and the common meaning of language to interpret this as anything other than the confirmation by God that Jesus was His son and not His equal. All subsequent statements by the writers of the Bible and others since then which suggest otherwise are misunderstandings of Jesus's message and are a direct contradiction of God's statement that Jesus is His beloved son.

Jesus said: " all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto thee" (John 15:15). This reference by Jesus to his father speaks for itself. If Jesus thought that he was God, he would not have referred to his Father at all. He would have simply said "I've told you everything you need to know about me".

"They shall know thee the only true God" (John 17:3). Both the New and the Old Testaments proclaim the there is only one God on numerous occasions. How then, can someone claim that there are two, or even three Gods? The Holy Trinity can be explained in human terms as God and His two arms: The son and the word of God. God is the head, and the arms are part of Him, but they are not Him, merely the means by which he carries out His will. The spiritual interpretation of the Trinity is: God the Father, the creator and the creator of the Word: His son, who demonstrated that Word; and the Word of Truth itself. From the spiritual point of view Jesus is and indeed we too are joint heirs of God as the Bible declares. Albeit Jesus had a fully developed understanding of God while we on the other hand are tasked at birth to develop our understanding, "to have that mind in us which was also in Christ Jesus". We have yet to disperse the clouds of mortal though from our consciousness which are preventing us from reflecting God's perfection. The child of God, made in His image and likeness, is a spiritual entity or soul which reflects the thoughts of God. The soul resides in the divine Mind ("we live and move and have our being in Him:) and not in the human body. The human consciousness merely reflects our soul. When we die that reflection fades from our consciousness, but our soul does not cease to exist in the divine Mind. It is an integral and eternal part of the divine Mind.

Finally, if Jesus is God incarnate, there are the somewhat trite questions:

If Jesus is God in the flesh and his flesh died on the cross, does that mean the God is dead or was dead for three days; and, if we are God's children just as Jesus is, then we too must be God. Both these possibility's show the absurdity of claiming that Jesus is God.