St. Paul is clear Jesus is God, see Romans 9. 5, Colossians 2. 8-10, 1 Tim 3. 16 etc.
We have no record that the other apostles ever contradicted St. Paul on this issue of the Divinity of Jesus.
You can find verses in the Gospels which indicate that Jesus did not consider himself God, but He was just being self-deprecating.
Plus Jesus can still be God even if He was made a little lower than the angels for a little while, see Hebrews 2. 9.
If Jesus is God, as we Christians maintain, there are still no end of Christians who are lost in DELUSION. This is because the same scriptures which tell us Christianity is the True Faith also tell us that there is only one True Church, see Matthew 16.13-19, John 14. 23-26, Ephesians 4. 4 etc. But Christians have divided and subdivided Christianity into hundreds or thousands of separate denominations.
It is INSANITY to have hundreds or thousands of separate denominations when there is only one True Church!
All this is sort of like trying to explain to a puppy that he needs to stop urinating on your couch.
So you catch him in the criminal act, and you say to him, "BAD DOG! BAD DOG!"
You can yell at Christians, "BAD CHRISTIANS! BAD CHRISTIANS" for dividing and subdividing Christianity into hundreds or thousands of denominations, when the scriptures say there is only one True Church.
But powerful emotions drive Christians to reason as follows: "Mom and dad, and grandfather and grandmother, were members of our church, and since we believe that our church has led our dearly departed friends and family members to Heaven, then this is what we are going to believe! We're not interested in hearing any EVIDENCE which says our church is lost in heresy, saying our church is a false church which leads people away from Heaven and to perdition!
We don't want to hear any of that!
We only want to hear that our church leads people to Heaven!
So "SHUT UP! FOR SAYING OR IMPLYING THAT OUR DENOMINATION, OUR CHURCH, IS A FALSE CHURCH LOST IN HERESY WHICH LEADS PEOPLE TO PERDITION AND NOT TO HEAVEN."
But this is how people in a cult think.
Merely because you desperately want your church to be God's True Church doesn't mean your church is God's True Church!
As soon as you hear them say: "WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY EVIDENCE..."
Then you know you're talking to cultists.
1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 says you drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate Holy Communion in an unworthy manner.
Don't partake with anyone who openly pushes evil or Anti-Christian things: Sabbath violators, pro-choicers, pro-gay marriage heretics, pro LGBT heretics etc.
For century after century churches gave the bread and the wine to evil kings, evil nobles, evil priests...
Lord Acton told us in his essay `Human Sacrifice':
`And yet, long after the last victim had fallen in honour of the sun-god of the Aztecs, the civilised nations of Christian Europe continued to wage wholesale destruction...Protestants and Catholics, clergy and laity, vied with each other for two hundred years to provide victims, and every refinement of legal ingenuity and torture was used in order to increase their number. In 1591, at Nördligen, a girl was tortured twenty-three times before she confessed...Three years later, in the same town, a woman suffered torture fifty-six times without confessing she was a witch."
The thousands of separate denominations that we have in the world lose $$$$ when they excommunicate people who push Anti-Christian things: Sabbath violators, pro-choicers, pro-gay marriage people etc.
But churches lead people to perdition, they become false churches, when they grab for the $$$$ and fail to excommunicate people who must be excommunicated.
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