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Originally Posted by EvanG
It is riskier in my view to deny Jesus's divinity and be wrong than to believe it and be wrong. To deny Jesus's divinity is to deny the eternal nature of the Divine Blood (and hence eternal salvation). If only a man died on the cross, then Jesus was no better than a ram or a goat.
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Whether Jesus was a man or not may not matter. What matters is what God makes of it. The OT has God savoring the sacrifice of the critters. It could also be so for the sacrifice of His human son.
But I must point out the in the days of Jesus being God wasn't surprising to anyone. The concept or idea was in common currency back then.
So I posit that many thought Jesus was God early on. Why not? It was nothing new.
Now whether Jesus said he was God is another matter altogether. Historical scholars can't get down to that matter. All the information we have doesn't come directly from the mouth of Jesus.
And the prologue of the gospel of John isn't spoken by Jesus, at all. The Logos is a pagan concept, coined some 500 yrs before Jesus, by Heraclitus of Ephesus, by the way, where scholars believe that gospel was written. Same, same, if you ask me. Could be, that, the author of the gospel that was eventually attributed to John just embellished on the matter, to make Jesus relevant to the pagans ... that were very familiar with the Logos, and what the word meant.