Contradiction? or Declaration?

John 5:19

¹⁹Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

The accusers said it was a contradiction with Jesus the Son of God pictured by christianity. He was just a human prophet, after all, who only did what The God, as He called the Father, told him to do. He can do nothing without the God.

Well, first, Jesus wasn’t said he was being told to do things, He clearly stated He only do what the Father do, can’t do anything the Father didn’t do – in divine manners, because the Father and Jesus are fully divine.

“Doing” and “being told to do” were different.

It also clearly stated “the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does” ;

He does whatever the Father does, wasn’t meaning He can’t do anything he want or need to do – human thing, free will to eat, drink, sleep normally (as Jesus is fully human & fully divine), or if the Father didn’t told him or didn’t permit him to do miracles – divine works (miracles, forgives sin, etc), He couldn’t do that.

But because He and the Father are an union, He always does what the Father does – divine manners, divine act (miracles, forgive sins, giving law & sermon, rise the death, cast out demon), as they are One. Jesus can’t do thing the Father doesn’t do.

It wasn’t a contradiction. It was a declaration.

Why change the words that clearly state there but accused christians to “change” the bible? Accusers need to stop their tafsir/opinion/interpretation as they want, and started to read it.

Talked about Jesus as a prophet like what accusers accused Him to be, as being told what he must did, how can He doing miracles and erase/forgive/condone human sins whenever and wherever He would to whoever? Did any other prophet do that? Who were prophet who did whatever God did – as their own doing?

Well, talked about miracles, the answer would be “their job were different to each other. Their miracles and purpose were different”, or “Jesus said it was God’s work, not His works. He is a prophet”.

If that so, how about being a sinner – which was a very human nature thing, that God never do? Jesus surely never did sin, as its written and proven in the bible – He is the Messiah, the Son of God. Even the most holy prophet were sinners. It’s normal – prophets did sin, because they were human being. God on the other hand, FORGIVE and CONDEMN sin.

That’s exactly what Jesus said and meant- not like what the accuser interpreted as.

Jesus only did what Father did, with Holy spirit (not human spirit) in Him – meaning, He only did what Father and Holy spirit did. He didn’t, wouldn’t, and couldn’t do things that the Father and Holy spirit didn’t do. He didn’t have the ability to do bad things in humanism, like what every human prophet did (being a sinner), because Father and Holy spirit didn’t do it, too.

And here is clear, together God the Father, Jesus Son of God, and Holy spirit were connected to each other AS ONE. He declared Trinity all along.

No one comes to the Father except through Jesus and as Jesus is the only way, no one can come to Jesus unless the Father draws them to Jesus. Holy spirit, God’s spirit, came to the disciples in the name of Jesus, was sent by the Father, for always reminding us for what Jesus taught – what God taught and told us to do.

John 6:43-45 – ⁴⁴“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.

John 14:6-7 – ⁶Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

John 14:26 – ²⁶But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

He is not a human prophet. He is the Son of God in the Trinity.

God’s Law and Jews Tradition

Matthew 15:1-20

The Tradition of the Elders

15 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, ²“Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” ³He answered them, “And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.’ ⁵But you say, ‘If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.’ ⁶So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God. ⁷You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

⁸‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
⁹in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’”

Things That Defile

¹⁰And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand: ¹¹not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.” ¹²Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” ¹³He answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. ¹⁴Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” ¹⁵But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us.” ¹⁶And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? ¹⁷Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and so passes on? ¹⁸But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a man. ¹⁹For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. ²⁰These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

Mark 7:1-23

The Tradition of the Elders

7 Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, ²they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. ³(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders; ⁴and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.) ⁵And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?” ⁶And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,

‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
⁷in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’

⁸You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.”

⁹And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition! ¹⁰For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die’; ¹¹but you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban’ (that is, given to God)— ¹²then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, ¹³thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.”

¹⁴And he called the people to him again, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: ¹⁵there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him.” ¹⁷And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. ¹⁸And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, ¹⁹since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) ²⁰And he said, “What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. ²¹For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, ²²coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. ²³All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man.”

Non-christian assumed christianity is wrongly interpret those verse. They said Jesus was jews and those verse doesn’t mean christianity can eat pork and what consider “haram”.

The context of the verses is when Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem see Jesus’ disciples eating with “defiled” (unwashed) hands. The Pharisees held to the “tradition of the elders,” which mandated ceremonial washing of hands before eating, as well as the cleansing of cups, pitchers, and other vessels. They ask Jesus why his disciples do not follow their tradition.

In other verse, really clear that Jesus criticized pharises, which glorify their tradition more than God law’s itself. Then, Jesus make law that teaching that true defilement comes from the heart, not the hands or external rituals, which makes worship vain and invalidates God’s commands.

Jesus then declares, “Nothing outside a person is able to defile them by going into them; but the things that come out of a person are what defile them.”

Matthew 15, Mark 7, and the parallel passages in Luke describe the confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees and scribes over ritual handwashing traditions, Jesus teaching that true defilement comes from within rather than from external things, and a later account of Jesus healing a deaf-mute man with more detail provided in Mark’s Gospel.

Luke 11:37-44

Jesus Denounces Pharisees and Experts in the Law

³⁷While he was speaking, a Pharisee invited him to dine with him, so he went in and took his place at the table. ³⁸The Pharisee was amazed to see that he did not first wash before dinner. ³⁹Then the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. ⁴⁰You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? ⁴¹So give as alms those things that are within and then everything will be clean for you.

⁴²“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds and neglect justice and the love of God; it is these you ought to have practiced, without neglecting the others. ⁴³Woe to you Pharisees! For you love to have the seat of honor in the synagogues and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves on which people unknowingly walk.”

About Jewish tradition and law

Jewish law and tradition were established to cultivate human discipline and respect for God’s will; while considered divinely revealed in tradition, their interpretation and practical application were shaped by human effort.

1. Divine Source – The Torah (Written Law)

Torah (Pentateuch): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
According to Jewish tradition, God revealed these laws to Moses on Mount Sinai (~13th–12th century BCE, traditionally).
Includes:
- Mitzvot (Commandments): 613 in total (248 positive, 365 negative).
- Covers ethical behavior, ritual practice, social law, and holiness.

2. Oral Law (Tradition and Interpretation)

God also gave oral instructions to explain and apply the Torah.
Oral Torah preserved, debated, and expanded by rabbis.
Key texts:
- Mishnah (~200 CE): Early compilation of oral laws.
- Talmud (Babylonian ~500 CE; Jerusalem ~400 CE): Expanded discussions, interpretations, and practical rulings.
Purpose: Ensure Torah laws are applied in daily life and adapted to changing circumstances.

3. Later Rabbinic and Cultural Traditions

Over centuries, Jewish communities developed:
- Customs (minhagim): Local religious practices.
- Halakha: Codified Jewish law from Torah + Talmud + later rulings (e.g., Shulchan Aruch, 16th century).
These traditions often reflect human interpretation and community needs, while still grounded in divine Torah.

The Torah (written law) focuses on moral and ethical commandments, e.g., honoring parents, not murdering, not stealing.

Handwashing and other ritual purity rules were part of the Oral Law and Pharisaic tradition (later formalized in Mishnah/Talmud).

So technically, Jesus’ disciples weren’t violating the written Torah, but they ignored added traditions.

From a strict Pharisaic perspective, ignoring ritual handwashing was breaking tradition, so it seems like violation.

From a Torah-centered perspective, Jesus upheld God’s law but challenged human additions that distorted the law’s intent.

It wasn’t a contradiction. It was a declaration.

Jesus clarified God’s law as a call to love, mercy, justice, and inner purity, showing its true spirit rather than reducing it to ritual observance.

In Mark 7:1–23 / Matthew 15:1–20, Jesus says that it’s not what goes into a person that makes them “unclean,” but what comes out of their heart (evil thoughts, actions).

This was not a direct permission to eat “haram foods”, but it shifted the emphasis: inner moral purity is more important than ritual or dietary rules.

His disciples might have interpreted this as a loosening of ritual dietary laws, though Jesus himself did not explicitly command eating forbidden foods.

After Jesus’ resurrection, early Christians debated whether Gentile converts needed to follow Jewish law (including kosher rules).

Acts 10: Peter’s vision – “What God has made clean, do not call unclean”
Acts 15 (Council of Jerusalem): Gentile Christians were not required to fully follow Torah laws, including dietary restrictions.

As a result, most Christians began eating foods forbidden in Jewish law, like pork, because:

Salvation is by faith in Christ, not ritual obedience.
Inner morality and devotion to God are primary.

It is also have connection with Matthew 22:15–22 (also in Mark 12:13–17 and Luke 20:20–26).

Matthew 22:15-22

The Question about Paying Taxes

¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. ¹⁶So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one, for you do not regard people with partiality. ¹⁷Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” ¹⁸But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why are you putting me to the test, you hypocrites? ¹⁹Show me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. ²⁰Then he said to them, “Whose head is this and whose title?” ²¹They answered, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” ²²When they heard this, they were amazed, and they left him and went away.

Mark 12:13-17

The Question about Paying Taxes

¹³Then they sent to him some Pharisees and some Herodians to trap him in what he said. ¹⁴And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere and show deference to no one, for you do not regard people with partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? ¹⁵Should we pay them, or should we not?” But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why are you putting me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me see it.” ¹⁶And they brought one. Then he said to them, “Whose head is this and whose title?” They answered, “Caesar’s.” ¹⁷Jesus said to them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were utterly amazed at him.

Luke 20:20-26

The Question about Paying Tribute

²⁰So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said and then to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor. ²¹So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and you show deference to no one but teach the way of God in accordance with truth. ²²Is it lawful for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?” ²³But he perceived their craftiness and said to them, ²⁴“Show me a denarius. Whose head and whose title does it bear?” They said, “Caesar’s.” ²⁵He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” ²⁶And they were not able in the presence of the people to trap him by what he said, and being amazed by his answer they became silent.

“Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s”

The Core Message about tradition in the connection with Catholic and their tradition

Hypocrisy Exposed: The incident exposes the hypocrisy of those who meticulously follow human rules while neglecting the weightier matt

True Defilement: What defiles a person comes from their heart, including evil thoughts, impurity, and deceit.

God’s Will vs. Human Rules: Jesus emphasizes the importance of inner sincerity over outward appearances and external rituals, a core theme in the Catholic Catechism.

The Catholic Catechism

The Catholic Catechism is the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), a comprehensive reference book that summarizes the Church’s teachings on faith and morals, serving as a primary teaching tool for Catholic doctrine.Promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992, it compiles the Church’s understanding of God’s revelation and divine scripture into a single, organized text to guide Catholic faithful in understanding what they believe, how they should live, and how to pray and worship.

Does catholic not listen to Jesus – and glorify tradition rather than God?

1. Continuity, Not Rejection

Catholic teaching holds that Jesus did not abolish the Law of Moses but fulfilled it (cf. Matthew 5:17).

The ritual and ceremonial aspects of the Mosaic law (dietary rules, ritual purity) were temporary, preparing Israel for the Messiah.
The moral core of the law (love of God, love of neighbor, justice, mercy) is eternal and binding.

2. Jesus’ Clarification

When Jesus emphasized love, mercy, justice, and inner purity over ritual observance (Mark 7, Matthew 15, Luke 11), Catholics interpret this as:

Declaring God’s law in its fullness.
Exposing that external rituals alone cannot save without conversion of the heart.
Elevating the law from external rule-keeping to an interior, grace-filled obedience.

3. Catholic Tradition Today

Catholic moral teaching flows from this principle: the Ten Commandments remain, but are illuminated by the Beatitudes and the New Law of Christ.
The Church sees Jesus’ declaration as the foundation of Catholic moral theology:
- Law fulfilled in love (Romans 13:10).
- Grace makes it possible to live God’s law fully (Catechism of the Catholic Church §§1965–1974).
Thus, in Catholic thought, Jesus was not contradicting Jewish law but perfecting it and establishing the way it is lived in the New Covenant.

In Catholic tradition, Jesus’ teaching clarified and fulfilled God’s law, elevating it from external ritual to a law of love, mercy, justice, and inner purity, which remains the foundation of Christian moral life.

Source

According to the Catechism (CCC 1965, 1968, 1972), Jesus did not abolish the Jewish Law but fulfilled it, elevating it into the New Law of love, grace, and inner purity as expressed in the Sermon on the Mount.

Jesus said “worship God Allah only, your Lord and my Lord“?

The accusers said Jesus never said “worship me”, but “worship God Allah only, your Lord and my Lord. “

But, what the accusers didn’t understand is Jesus is the God (Allah) itself – Son of God. And the “sentence” they used to said “Jesus told people to worship God only,” was from Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13 and those are pointed to Jesus himself – when satan TEMPTED Jesus.

Matthew 4:1-11

The Temptation of Jesus

4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. ²And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.³And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” ⁴But he answered, “It is written,

“‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

⁵Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ⁶and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,

“‘He will command his angels concerning you,’

and

“‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”

⁷Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” ⁸Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. ⁹And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” ¹⁰Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written,

“‘You shall worship the Lord your God
and him only shall you serve.’”

¹¹Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.

Luke 4:1-13

The Temptation of Jesus

4 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness ²for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. ³The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” ⁴And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’” ⁵And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, ⁶and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. ⁷If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” ⁸And Jesus answered him, “It is written,

“‘You shall worship the Lord your God,
and him only shall you serve.’”

⁹And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,¹⁰for it is written,

“‘He will command his angels concerning you,
to guard you,’

¹¹and

“‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”

¹²And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” ¹³And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.

The sentence (in Matthew 4:7-10 ; Luke 4:5-8) ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve’ are ALWAYS pointed to Jesus because satan keep tempted Jesus to proof that He is the GOD – Son of God.

And the accusers think it (the sentence Jesus said) was for “Allah” (God), but they didn’t understand the context that satan tempted Jesus as the Son of God, not as a regular human or a prophet.

Satan tried to questioning Jesus’s authority and Jesus answered ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test’.

Jesus is the Lord himself.

It wasn’t a contradiction. It was a declaration.

The accusers rejected the idea Jesus is a SON OF GOD, and said Jesus don’t say “worship me”, rather said “worship God Allah only, your Lord and my Lord. “

But, nowhere in the verses Jesus said “Don’t worship me”, but rather He said “You SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD to the test.”

And He also said, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve’ after satan challenged His authority – and that sentence WASN’T for telling people to not worship Him.

The accusers are over and over again challenge Jesus authority, blamed people who believe in Him, because they think what Jesus said there is similar with their version of, ‘worship God Allah only, your Lord and my Lord’, without knowing and understand that Jesus is the Son of God, The Lord itself. Allah is the arabic language for GOD.

If not that, the accusers was (also) connecting that sentence with what Jesus said in John 20:17 ; without any context at all.

John 20:11-17

Mary Magdalene Recognizes Jesus.

¹¹Mary Magdalene remained weeping outside the tomb. And as she wept, she bent down to look into the tomb, ¹²and she saw two angels in white sitting there where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and the other at the feet. ¹³They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She answered, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him.”

¹⁴As she said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. ¹⁵Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have removed him, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away.” ¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means “Teacher”).

¹⁷Jesus then said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”¹⁸Mary Magdalene then went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and repeated what he had said to her.

John 20:17 happened AFTER crucifixion (which’s denied by the accusers). Jesus ressurected (also denied by the accusers) and met Mary Magdalene outside the tomb.

The verses “I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God” means :

Jesus calls God His Father in a special way, because He is the Son of God. Jesus also calls God “your Father,” because believers are God’s children by faith.

Jesus says “my God,” because as a man, He lived in obedience to the Father. Jesus said “your God,” because His Father is indeed God the Father, their God. At the same time, the Bible shows that Jesus Himself is worshipped as Lord.

John 20:17 sounds similar with what the accusers said at first, but it is not a command to worship God instead of Jesus; rather it highlights Jesus’s humanity and obedience to the Father after His resurrection.

The accusers adapts this idea into a different formula to deny worship of Jesus.

The accusers also pull-out John 4:23–24 in connection to it.

But, the context (of John 4:23-24) there was Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well. She asked whether people should worship on Mount Gerizim (Samaritan practice) or in Jerusalem (Jewish practice). Jesus explains that true worship isn’t about location, but about worshipping God in spirit and truth.

Jesus claimed that honoring Him IS honoring the Father (John 5:23-24) :²³that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Jesus accepted worship several times. He implicitly showed He was worthy of worship by accepting it and by equating His honor with God the Father.

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Verses where people worshipped Jesus, and He accepted it

Matthew 14:33 : “And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, ‘Truly you are the Son of God.’”
Matthew 28:9 : After the resurrection: “And behold, Jesus met them and said, ‘Greetings!’ And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.”
Matthew 28:17 : “When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.”
John 9:38 : The man born blind: “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.

Compare with Acts 10:25–26 and Revelation 22:8–9, where Peter and an angel both refuse worship. Jesus never refuses.

Verses where Jesus equates His honor with God’s

Philippians 2:10–11 (Paul’s testimony) : “…so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (echoing Isaiah 45:23, which speaks of worship to God alone).

John 5:22–23 : “The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.”

John 10:30 : “I and the Father are one.”

John 14:9 : “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.”

The New Testament presents worship of Jesus not as idolatry, but as rightful worship because He shares in God’s divine identity.

You shall not put the Lord your God to the test
Luke 4:12 ; Matthew 4:7

Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabakhtani ; My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

The accusers said Jesus forgot what his purpose in life, to die on the cross. Some said He prayed to God, meaning He wasn’t God – just human being. If He’s God, why pray to Eloi?

Jesus did not pray to be saved by God the Father. He is God, as He is in One God Trinity. He recited Psalm 22 – which in contrast was declaration for David’s song/pray and the prophecy.

It wasn’t a contradiction. It was a declaration.

Psalm 22

¹My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
    Why are you so far from saving me,
    so far from my cries of anguish?
²My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
    by night, but I find no rest.

David’s prayer asked for salvation of sin.

³Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
    you are the one Israel praises.
⁴In you our ancestors put their trust;
    they trusted and you delivered them.
⁵To you they cried out and were saved;
    in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

⁶But I am a worm and not a man,
    scorned by everyone, despised by the people.
⁷All who see me mock me;
    they hurl insults, shaking their heads.
⁸“He trusts in the Lord,” they say,
    “let the Lord rescue him.
Let him deliver him,
    since he delights in him.”

Above is The prophecy, people told Jesus (on the cross) to get saved because He’s God (read Matthew 27:41-44; Mark 15:30-32; Luke 23:39-42)

⁹Yet you brought me out of the womb;
you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.
¹⁰From birth I was cast on you;
from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

¹¹Do not be far from me,
for trouble is near
and there is no one to help.

¹²Many bulls surround me;
    strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
¹³Roaring lions that tear their prey
    open their mouths wide against me.
¹⁴I am poured out like water,
    and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart has turned to wax;
    it has melted within me.
¹⁵My mouth is dried up like a potsherd,
    and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
    you lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶Dogs surround me,
    a pack of villains encircles me;
    they pierce my hands and my feet.
¹⁷All my bones are on display;
    people stare and gloat over me.
¹⁸They divide my clothes among them
    and cast lots for my garment.

Again, the prophecy (read Matthew 27:32-37; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34; John 19:23-24)

¹⁹But you, Lord, do not be far from me.
    You are my strength; come quickly to help me.
²⁰Deliver me from the sword,
    my precious life from the power of the dogs.
²¹Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;
    save me from the horns of the wild oxen.

²²I will declare your name to my people;
    in the assembly I will praise you.
²³You who fear the Lord, praise him!
    All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
    Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
²⁴For he has not despised or scorned
    the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
    but has listened to his cry for help.

²⁵From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;
    before those who fear you I will fulfill my vows.
²⁶The poor will eat and be satisfied;
    those who seek the Lord will praise him—
    may your hearts live forever!

²⁷All the ends of the earth
    will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
    will bow down before him,
²⁸for dominion belongs to the Lord
    and he rules over the nations.

²⁹All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
    all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
    those who cannot keep themselves alive.
³⁰Posterity will serve him;
    future generations will be told about the Lord.
³¹They will proclaim his righteousness,
    declaring to a people yet unborn:
    He has done it!

Jesus on the cross declared He was the one on the prophecy, God who would give salvation to human and experiencing human death for it. With the blood of himself as human, Jesus, have condemned sin, and after His crucifixion, sacrificing self (as human without sin) God can make salvation without human need to sacrificing animals/plants/or self as prices for their own sins.

As Jesus said “Eloi, Eloi, Lama sabakhtani” on the cross, He declared to the Father and people that the prophecy was finished and all sin are forgiven. He’s done. All done.

Was He death? Yes, he was experiencing human death, but not gone (like how humans die and only their spirit/soul remains but their body decays) because in three days, he ressurected, and back to the Father and Holy spirit, as Son of God – the Trinity.

He is the Divine God, He’s immortal.

It wasn’t a contradiction. It was a declaration.

The only thing who make it being a contradiction is them, the accuser, with manipulative ways to change words and change meaning completely, that wasn’t even stated.

Stop making opinion to thing that clearly stated! And stop accused christianity to change the bible like what you, the accuser, did to the bible all along!

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
Luke 23:34

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