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Jesus never claimed to be the God of Abraham & Moses -
Jesus
continually referred to himself in ways that confounded his
listeners. As Piper notes, Jesus made the audacious statement,
“Before Abraham was, I AM.” He told Martha and others around her,
“I AM the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though
he is dead, yet shall he live.” Likewise, Jesus would make
statements like, “I AM the light of the world,” “I AM the
only way to God,” or, “I AM the “truth.” These and several
other of his claims were preceded by the sacred words for God, “I
AM” (ego eimi). What did Jesus mean by such statements, and what is
the significance of the term, “I AM”? These utterances of Jesus
as they are attributed to him have surprising similarity to what lord
Krishna often uttered in his address in his speech to his best friend
and pupil Arjuna. For westerners these comments may appear strange
but for a Hindu they are not so. Because we firmly believe that every
one is god from within however, he/she is not aware of that. It is
possible that Jesus having attained salvation in that life, knew that
the fact, He is God!
Once
again, we must go back to context. In the Hebrew Scriptures, when
Moses asked God His name at the burning bush, God answered, “I AM.”
He was revealing to Moses that He is the one and only God who is
outside of time and has always existed. Incredibly, Jesus was using
these holy words to describe himself. The question is, “Why?"
Since
the time of Moses, no practicing Jew would ever refer to himself or
anyone else by “I AM.” As a result, Jesus’ “I AM” claims
infuriated the Jewish leaders. One time, for example, some leaders
explained to Jesus why they were trying to kill him: “Because you,
a mere man, have made yourself God.”
Jesus’
usage of God’s name greatly angered the religious leaders. The
point is that these Old Testament scholars knew exactly what he was
saying—he was claiming to be God, the Creator of the universe. It
is only this claim that would have brought the accusation of
blasphemy. To read into the text that Jesus claimed to be God is
clearly warranted, not simply by his words, but also by their
reaction to those words. Here we note that these western Christian
scholars do not have the hint that this man Jesus was not a Jew by
faith but strangely enough, Jesus was preaching what we today call
religion of Hindus. This term Hindu is of Arab origin, in the days of
Jesus this faith was referred to as "Human religion" in India. When
this we understand, things fit well in the argument.
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