By izartirta
Anyone can believe or recognize himself as God but proving himself as having the attributes of God is another story.
Jesus on the other hand didn’t just consider himself God’s Son, but he also fulfilled the attributes that only God could have.
Even though he has those “Omni” qualities he chose to empty himself, being independence of using those attributes. Like God’s character that we know from the Old Testament, Jesus possesses these Omni attributes like omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence. However, as Apostle Paul stated in Philippians 2, Jesus didn’t always choose to exhibit those “Omnis.”
Just like every other human being, Jesus walked down some tough and risky journeys from one place to the other without let’s say flying for example. Jesus stayed in one place and therefore he didn’t attend Lazarus’s burial, he didn’t show up whenever his friend was sick.
Even so, the New Testament confirms that all these qualities were ultimately true belongs to him. Let’s take John 16:30 for example, John affirmed of Jesus, “Now we can see that you know all things.” This verse shows us that Jesus, being a human being like us, is still omniscience in quality.
In Matthew 28:20 we will also find the proof of omnipresence when Jesus said: “Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Only human with the capability of exist everywhere every time without limited by place and time whatsoever can say this. And just before this statement we also find another trace for the omnipotence quality. In front of his disciples, Jesus declared, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” (Matthew 28:18)
Omnipotence means that there is no power bigger than Jesus has. Jesus is the highest ruler above all reality.
In his letter to people of Colossians, Apostle Paul stated: “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.” (Colossians 2:9)
The greatness of Jesus Christ is not because he is indeed God with all the fullness of God’s attributes, but because he can let his humanity burdening him.
Jesus’ eternality can be seen in John’s statement: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Or, in Hebrew 13:8: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
Sinful nature is not the original nature of man. I mean, a man is a man without committing sin. As a human, Jesus doesn’t necessarily have to engage in sinful nature. In fact, Jesus has shown us the ultimate model of human that God intended to create and live forever with.
