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How Could Jesus Be God? Dear Brother Ron How could Jesus be God? Jesus was born to Mary as a human baby. It is  totally illogical to say he was God. How this could be believed? AzAn Dear AzAn Jesus was not God. He never said He was. On many occasions, He referred to His Father as a separate entity from Himself. He did, however, say that He was one with His Father. This is entirely logical. Consider this: Mary was told by her cousin Elizabeth that her baby was going to be somebody special. She had a vision in which an angel told her that her son was going to be the Messiah and the Son of God. At His birth, nobility came from foreign lands to honor His arrival. Mary and Joseph had to flee to Egypt to escape the assassination ordered by King Herrod. Given all of these facts, do you think Jesus was raised just like every other boy in Israel? Hardly. I think Mary and Joseph told Jesus from the moment He could understand language (and probably before) how special He was. Imagine being raised from birth to believe you are the holy Son of the living God. Imagine being raised to believe you are the person your country has waited for for hundreds of years. Would you not devote every waking moment to becoming the person you believed you were destined to be? The result would be that you would feel a total unity with God. You would have total faith in God and would have total access to the power of the Holy Spirit within you. That faith and that unity would allow you to do incredible things. Jesus told us this on several occasions. My big complaint with most religious organizations is they have tried to place themselves between man and God. They have created dogma to convince people that the only way to get to God is through the church. This is not what Jesus preached. He told us the kingdom of God is within us. He told us that, if we had total faith in God, we could do everything He did and more. Unfortunately, this message got watered down and perverted over the years. Jesus was not god but He was one with God. We can also be one with God. All we have to do is look for His Spirit within us and have total confidence in that Spirit just like Jesus told us to do. Best always Brother Ron