Understanding God

Jesus as Son of God.
Lets see examples of the miracles performed by Jesus. Jesus not only performed miracles but He did it with full right as if he is God himself. No wonder that Jesus was crucified lets look at some of the miracles.Jesus raises the dead:
Luke 8:52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat. And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done
John 11:39 Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you had faith you would see the glory of God? So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me. I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out! And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.
Raising the dead in this way means a lot in the second verse John11 Jesus says clearly that" I said it because that the people may see and know that God has sent me" It means for people to understand that Jesus is the son of God not a prophet. And he is the promised one to save people.On the other hand the miracles that is the most astonishing which will make us think. Read the paragraph below very important to understand this scripture.
Matt 15:21 21Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession." Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us." He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." The woman came and knelt before him. "Lord, help me!" she said. He replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." "Yes, Lord," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." Then Jesus answered, "Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
If you try to interpret the above scripture with materialistic mind this scripture may sound very rude and discriminating to you. But very important is we need to understand that every action of Jesus was saying something to his disciples and to the futures readers. This wasnt the first time Jesus healed a gentile. When Jesus used to walk amongst so many people doies it mean ther were only Jews and no gentiles?1. Jesus by healing this gentile lady's child has removed the discrimination amongst people by showing compassion towards her faith in Him. And also to show that the beliefs Jews had has to change that God of Abraham and Moses is not only for Jews but for everyone who believes in Jesus and He has come to save every human being on this earth not only a particular race.2. Jesus by doing this has moulded the complete Jewish belief and changed the law by healing a non Jew. What does this say? This scriptures are shouting out loud and saying that Jesus has power to change everything and anything and who can have this kind of authority only God himself. Actually after this miracle the disciples of Jesus were amazed that how can Jesus heal a non Jew which is against the authority of the Jewish law and it made them thinking.
Not only the above scripture but another scripture from the Bible says it clearly where Jesus healed a non Jews slave and what He had to say about the Non Jews compared to Jews.
Matthew 8:5 And when Jesus was come into Capernaum, a certain captain came to him with a request, Saying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain. And he said to him, I will come and make him well.And the captain in answer said, Lord, I am not good enough for you to come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be made well.Because I myself am a man under authority, having under me fighting men; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.And when these words came to the ears of Jesus he was surprised, and said to those who came after him, Truly I say to you, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.And Jesus said to the captain, Go in peace; as your faith is, so let it be done to you. And the servant was made well in that hour.
This is another fantastic scripture where Jesus says that the non Jews will be the ones to sit with Abrahaam, Isaac and Jacob. In the same way Jesus compared the gentiles to dog showing that they are more faithfull than the Jews. Which prophet in the history had so much authority how much Jesus had? No one but only Jesus alone, is he a prophet? No. Jesus came down toearth to show them and make them understand what God is He came to show the love of His father towards his lost children and lead them to eternal life.In many instances while Jesus performing miracle He would say "your sins are forgiven" Who can have authority for forgivining our sins. No normal man can have authority to forgive us our sins. But the creator himself who has complete authority over the law of nature.So Jesus had the authority for forgiving our sins that means Jesus is showing what right He has over us that he cacn even amend the rules to lead us to eternity if we believe in Him.Thats why Jesus said "even if you have faith in me as big as mustard seed and you tell the mountains to move it will move" So all we need is faith in Jesus to solve our problems.In one scripture where Jesus was asked description of God and this is what Jesus answered:
John 14:6 "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us." Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Jesus has literally told Phillip that He is God or rather Son of God. However Jesus also tells him that whoever believes in me will perform same miracles like He did or better then Him. This scripture calls for wisdom to understand Jesus is telling us that we can be equal to Him if we believe in Him and be like him. Because Jesus is going to the Father and He is giving us the key to happiness and peace and showing us that God wants us to make Him more closer and leave our burdens to Him. Because God made us with love and most precious words are that He made us in his own image.Now in His own image means alot. if we read the Bible in Genesis we can see that God created Adam in His own image and God used to talk to Adam and Eve and they were good children but because they listened to evil they put a barrier between themselves and God and evil got them into their clutches and made them sin against God. And they felt naked and guilty and fear developed inside them suddenly they felt they are incomplete and not perfect. So God got very angry with them for dis obeying Him and they were chased out of the garden of Eden so that they do not eat the fruit of life and live forever.But God was very sad and grieved.Now the question arises that if God is the creator then He knew everything about the end and that Adam will sin against him. So God could have stopped it before happening. Now over here Im going to explain you what does "Man made in Image of God" mean. When God made man He made them out of clay and filled them with His love and then he blew air through his nostril and life came into him. Also we have to understand that if God blew air whats that air. That is the spirit we have in us that is the breath of God thats is the reason when we die the breath of God leaves it assigned body and goes to its resting place and it waits for the judgement day. It is not the same for all since the blood line of humans was polluted by the fallen angels who took earthly womans to be their wife and they bare children through them.So coming back to the Image of God. Then God gave us all his qualities Like Love, Emotion,Caring,Respect. And many other emotion and feelings that we have but themost imporatant thing that He gave us is Free will. To do anything as we will but later on will give an account of your will God could have programmed us like a computer and make us do only things he wants us to do. However God made us in His image and He also gave us freedom to think and to live, to understand the rights and wrongs of life and eventually we will give an account of whatever we did so He gave us choice to choose. Also on the other hand we have capability to do alot of things but we are bonded with negativity thrown by evil to us things like diseases,disbelief,sadness,luxury,lust,Jealousy, and many things that pulls us away from the truth of life. So basically in simple terms satan is stealing our liberty of getting connected to God. And that way satan will pull people towards him by various means. So by Jesus saying that He and God are one has made it simple for people to break the barriers and get connected to God. That is the reason Jesus always forgave people of their sins which came in through Adam and Eve and told them to believe in Him to have eternal life and that way we will come more closer to God.