I disagree with those who say the shema or greatest commandment is no longer important....
Where is that written in the Bible...
The word of God never changes....your word is forever settled in the heavens..
Psalm 119:89
I am Yahweh i change not..
Malaci 3:6
Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever
Hebrews 13:8
No one has disagreed with the Shema nor the greatest commandment, and no one has said they are no longer important.
YAHWEH is the one and only True God
And there is none other but Him
Mark 12:29
Jesus said YAHWEH our God Yahweh is one...
YAhweh is the one and only true God and their is no other...
And Trinitarians agree.
JEsus never made himself equal to God
As I have shown, the Jews understood that Jesus's claim that God was his Father, was Jesus making himself equal to God.
Joh 10:30 I and the Father are one.”
Joh 10:31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
Joh 10:32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”
Joh 10:33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” (ESV)
Three times this happens.
Joh 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
or called himself Yahweh....
HE always gave glory to God as greater than himself...
And he always referred to himself as
The son of man or
The son of God
HE never called himself God....ever...anywhere in scripture...
I have already shown that he did.
Joh 8:24 "Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am
He, you will die in your sins." (NASB)
The "He" is italicized in the text because it is not in the Greek manuscripts; it is added by the translators. This significant since Jesus is saying that unless they believed that he was the I Am, they would die in their sins.
Joh 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was,
I am.”
Joh 18:3 Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, *came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Joh 18:4 So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and *said to them, "Whom do you seek?"
Joh 18:5 They answered Him, "Jesus the Nazarene." He *said to them, "I am
He." And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them.
Joh 18:6 So when He said to them, "I am
He," they drew back and fell to the ground. (NASB)
Again the "He" is added to the text by the translators; it does not appear in the Greek manuscripts.
In Revelation, Jesus uses titles of himself that are used of the Father. So, yes, Jesus did call himself God.
The pharisees were upset with Jesus because he called himself the son of God
John 5:17-18
When the Bible says Jesus had equality with God.....
This means that the son had all authority from His Father....
Doesnt mean Jesus is the same as God
That's not what Scripture shows.