Your failure to understand that the Jews tried to stone

Posted on: July 30, 2016 at 00:33:02 CT

Jesus for using God's personal name for Himself in John chapter 8 is not proof that people in the old testament or in Christ's time did not recognize the triune nature of God.

"Wherefore the Jews took up stones to stone Him." They only had 5 things for which they could stone a person. Claiming to be God was one of them. "Before Abraham was, I AM" Jesus Christ. They knew that He was claiming to be the Messiah, God incarnate. Ask any orthodox Jew who is actually active and learned in their scripture. They know the Messiah is God in the flesh. That is why they expected Christ to set up His kingdom at that time. Their eyes were blind to the time of the gentiles and the setting aside of the children of Israel for a season.

"it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth."

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

"But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me."

"And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written:

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ."