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Originally Posted by Drake
Sorry Bible-believer, I overlooked this question. Thanks for calling my attention to it.
The answer is Yes! Jesus is Jehovah.
Jehovah means I Am. I Am that I Am.
Exodus 3:14-15
"And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. And He said Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you. And God also said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation."
Jesus said He was the I Am.... three times in John 8. John 8:24, 28, 58
John 8:24 "Therefore, I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins."
v28 "Jesus therefore said to them, When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am, and that I do nothing from Myself, but as my Father has taught Me, I speak these things."
v58 "Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am"
In John 8:24 the Lord gives a solemn warning; anyone who does not believe that the Lord Jesus is this very God, the I Am, will die in his sins.
Thanks
Drake
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Also, the "I am" in verse 24 could easily be referencing to verse 12, where Jesus says "I am [
eimi] the light of the world....."
He makes a claim, they doubt His claim and challenge it, and He then circles back in verse 24 to restate that unless they believe that "
I am [the light of the world]" they will die in their sins. Jesus doesn't say "unless you believe that I am Jehovah" or "believe that I am God" or "the Father". Unless you believe that I am? I am what? The light of the world that He just stated He was.
Verse 28 doesn't make sense that Jesus is claiming to be Jehovah God by using the phrase "I am" because in the very next phrase He says "...I do nothing on My own..."
You're saying that Jesus is claiming outright to be Jehovah God, the Most High, the one True God from whom everything came......but He does nothing on His own? Uhhh.......