Sure we can. Saying we can't doesn't make it so.
So, if it pleases God, can He define murder as good? and honoring one's parents as bad?
It seems you avoided the question.
So, you choose the second option? that something is good because God "commands" it to be good?
If Jesus is not God, then shouldn't your standard of authority be God, not Jesus, who, according to you, is JUST a man? or do you think that Jesus' words are higher than God's?
Whatever that means...
Ok, so what does that have to do with whether Jesus is God or not?
So you deny that God became a man?
Seems you've done the opposite, you've separated what God has joined together.
Honestly, that's what you've done, not us.
You've turned God (Jesus) into a mere man.
:AMR:
So you reject John 1:14? Last I checked, that's part of God's word.
Has it ever occurred to you that you've got it backwards, that YOU'RE the one who has turned God the Son of God into just a man?
Before God made man, He made an image of Himself to use to make man. God is Spirit, and does not inherently have an image to view, and since man needed a physical body, God made a physical image that He used to make man. Did you notice on Day 6 that God made the body before giving it life?
Which is what I was asking about.
How does God know He is good?
Sure, God's ways are higher than ours. But they're not lower.
Which raises the question, how does God define "'good'-ness"? Does he recognize something as being good (ie, the standard is external to Himself)? Or does He command something to be good (ie, He determines what is good and what is not good)?
I totally agree. Jesus was, in fact, a man.
But don't stop there. Jesus was ALSO, in fact, God in the flesh.
Well, I was trying to, but you didn't exactly want to go that route..
Shall we try again?
How does God define what is good?
Does He recognize something as good?
Or does He command it to be good?
Here's something else for you to consider:
If Jesus was not God and a man, but instead just a man, then His sacrifice could not save anyone.
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him—For the redemption of their souls is costly, And it shall cease forever—That he should continue to live eternally, And not see the Pit. . . . But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, For He shall receive me. Selah - Psalm 49:7-9,15
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm49:7-9,15&version=NKJV
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