Jesus Ain't So Good? How Could He Be God!

[JLB]

Jesus says that "there is none good but one, that is, God " and God alone.

Mar 10:18
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

So what was Jesus purposely telling us about Himself in this proclamation ?

That He is God.

 

[Whatever]

If Jesus said yes i am good to someone who thought they were also good, Jesus would have been telling that person that man in the flesh is good and that person would go away thinking that.

I would guess that is why Jesus said "why are you calling me good" if someone believed he was just a man in the flesh like them, so he said "only God is good".

I agree. Jesus is not saying "I'm not good," He is asking "why are you calling somebody you think is a mere man good?" "Do you say that to all teachers?" "Stop doing that, only God is good."

 

[Consecrated Life]

Could it possibly have been beacuse the dude only thought Jesus was a teacher and just a man like him and was calling him good, and also believed he was good, so was looking at humans as good and Jesus was like why you calling me just a man and teacher good, only God is good. Jesus is speaking to the man the way the man is thinking. If you see me as just a man and teacher then why call me good, only God is good.

That might be true if Jesus was tepid. modest, & timid about declaring who He was 99% of the time , albeit He used a roundabout method in leading honest inquirers , versus a more direct method with those who sought to discredit Him.
John 8:58
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

 

[Consecrated Life]

Consecrated Life, as always, look at the context of all individual verses for their real meaning instead of picking them out and giving them your own meaning:

(1) The young man was treating him as an exalted rabbi on par with God. Jesus put his idolatry down. He is saying nothing about his own deity.

Right. the young man was just as clueless as the young men walking the road to Emaus .
Jesus never comes straight out and tells
Every encounter Jesus had with people He Steered the conversation into a revelation of Himself.
Same thing with the woman at the well.
He never beats her over the head straight out by saying He and God Are one , instead He wants the revelation to be Spiritually discerned by His leading of thru the scriptures.
Granted He treated the young man more abruptly in that regard but it is obvious to me the young demeanor warranted it

 

[donadams]

Jesus says that "there is none good but one, that is, God " and God alone.

Mar 10:18
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

So what was Jesus purposely telling us about Himself in this proclamation ?

Speaking from His human nature, and teaching that God is the source of all good!

Matthew 2:11
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.

 

[donadams]

mt 14:33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

only God may be worshipped with latria adoration

acts 15:7 God made choice

where and when did God do this?

thks

 

[donadams]

Jesus says that "there is none good but one, that is, God " and God alone.

Mar 10:18
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

So what was Jesus purposely telling us about Himself in this proclamation ?

ps 23 the Lord is my shepherd

the good shepherd

 

[Corn Pop]

The man looked at Jesus as just a good teacher, a good man in the flesh and asked what works he needs to do to enter the Kingdom and then the dude claimed he held the commandments and Jesus said he still lacks because he believed he held the law yet Jesus is deeper and knows he would not be able to sacrifice his wealth for God so that's a fail.

 

[Bruce.Leiter]

You don't even know the difference between a reference to good gift , and a good person.
Hitler gave gifts to people as well.

Consecrated Life, Jesus is clearly testing the young man's elevation in his mind to the status of being on God's level. The problem is that rich young ruler's idolizing humans instead of relying on God alone. Here is a Person of God standing in front of him and he thinks that Jesus is a human as important as God himself, the way many people today elevate humans by getting their advice and decrease God by failing to pray to him, for example.

Jesus wants the young man to dethrone himself and his reliance on his teachers and wealth from being his gods. Thus, he tries to get at his real need of getting rid of his covetousness in getting more and more wealth, the commandment that Jesus omits in his list of the second table of the ten commandments.

His message, in essence, is to stop elevating yourself and your teachers with whom you replace God in your life and get rid of those idols. Jesus isn't denying his deity, which he asserts many times, especially in the Gospel of John, but he is teaching the man to worship and serve the true God, of whom he is a Person.

Joh 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
Joh 8:59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.