gurrato alaien:
Thank u brother, but this is not true, those verses above refute the divinity of Jesus, as we can see here clearly,
Mark 10:17-18 and Luke 18:18-19 - Jesus denied divinity.
So if he fully man and fully God he would not deny his divinity
Peace.
VociMike:
Look more closely. Jesus never denies His divinity in those verses
asteroid:
Mk10:17 - Gill’s commentary puts it clearly: "This is said, not as denying that he was good, or as being angry with him for calling him so, but in order to lead this young man to a true knowledge of him, and his goodness, and even of his proper deity: "
Lk18:18-19 - the same passage from Luke.
Brother, are you satisfied with the two responses that Mk 10:17-18 and Lk 18:18-19 do NOT mean that Jesus denies that he is divine?
Mark 10
17As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 19You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.
20"Teacher,” he declared, “all these I have kept since I was a boy.”
21Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
24The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is[e] to enter the kingdom of God! 25It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
26The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, “Who then can be saved?”
27Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”
28Peter said to him, “We have left everything to follow you!”
29"I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. 31But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
I just want to add that this is Jesus’ standard response about not revealing his true identity being the Son of God. But more appropriately, the young man speaks to Jesus as a human being (a teacher) and the address "Good master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ is unusual; perhaps it was as too effusive and obsequious, thus prompting the testy reaction in 10:18.
Jesus did not go around proclaiming himself as God or the messiah because he knew that this would not change people’s mind about him as a human being. In fact the moment he admitted it or implying that he was God, he was arrested and crucified for blasphemy.
Beside, the people’s expectation of the messiah is one who will restore the Jewish kingdom and liberation from the Romans’ rule. But Jesus’ kingdom is not of this world and his salvation is not from the Romans but from sins. Thus by proclaiming himself God or the messiah at this juncture would be premature and the resulting action of the people could only prevented him from achieving his true mission, that is, to be handed over to the chief priest and be killed.
Read this passage about Jesus telling his disciples not to tell anyone that he is the Son of God.
Matthew 16
13When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
14They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15"But what about you?" he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.[e] 19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be[f] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[g] loosed in heaven.”
20Then he warned his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.
