My opinion has nothing to do with this. Why won't you answer my questions?
No, I only upheld what scripture says.
Which is this:
For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. . . . Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. - John 5:16,18
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...8&version=NKJV
So John was an enemy of Jesus?
For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. . . . Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. - John 5:16,18
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...8&version=NKJV
You better be correct, Oatmeal, because the alternative is that you are bearing false witness against countless millions of Christians for believing that Jesus had, in fact, broken the sabbath, and that Jesus had, in fact, made Himself equal with God.
You apparently don't.
Rejecting what scripture says in favor of your own preconceived notions isn't good, Oatmeal.
For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him,
because He had done these things on the Sabbath. . . .Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him,
because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. - John 5:16,18
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...8&version=NKJV
No one is accusing Jesus of anything in these two verses.
John is stating clearly that Jesus did these things.
Was John lying? An enemy of Jesus? or was he accurately describing what had happened?
And?
Bearing false witness is a sin, Oatmeal.
You should tell God you're sorry for bearing false witness.
So then why didn't John record, like every other instance you listed, the enemies of God speaking, rather than state, as a matter of fact, that Jesus had done those things?
In other words, why do we not see this:
"For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him,
and accused him of doing these things on the Sabbath. . . . Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him,
saying, "You not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was
Your Father, making
Yourself equal with God." - John 5:16,18
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...8&version=NKJV
Instead of this:
For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. . . . Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. - John 5:16,18
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...8&version=NKJV
Again, John lied about Jesus breaking the Sabbath?
No one said otherwise.
Where did I accuse Him of such?
Please explain how you think if Jesus had broke the sabbath in this passage, he would have sinned. You can't, because your paradigm of beliefs prevents you from considering any alternatives.
Your problem, Oatmeal, is that your position doesn't allow you to consider the possibility that Jesus, in breaking the Sabbath, wasn't sinning at all, because your position doesn't allow for him to have broken the Sabbath, which is exactly what John recorded Him having done, not once, but twice, and not only breaking the Sabbath, but your position ALSO doesn't allow for John to be correct when John said that Jesus made Himself equal with God.
My position, however, allows the text to speak for itself, in the way it was written, without having to try to explain away what was being said.
John (not the Jews, the Pharisees, the enemies of Jesus) said:
For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. . . . Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. - John 5:16,18
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...8&version=NKJV
Was John lying?
Why would Jesus have been sinning if He had broken the Sabbath?