ONE WHO
PROCLAIMS “I CAN DO NOTHING OF MYSELF” CAN BE REGARDED AS GOD HIMSELF? OR EQUAL
WITH GOD?
Then Jesus answered and said to them,
"Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what
He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
– John 5:19
But
Jehovah can do everything what He desires to do!
...And whatever His [Jehovah’s] soul desires,
that He does. –Job 23:13
ONE WHO
LIVES DEPENDS UP ON THE FAVOUR OF GOD CAN BE REGARDED AS GOD HIMSELF? OR EQUAL
WITH GOD?
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature,
and in favor with God and men. – Luke 2:52
As the living Father sent Me, and I live
because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. –
John 6:57
But
Jehovah possesses own life!
He [Jehovah] is living God and the
everlasting king. – Jeremiah 10:10
ONE WHO
POSSESSES THE LIMITED KNOWLEDGE CAN BE REGARDED AS GOD HIMSELF? OR EQUAL WITH GOD?
But of that day and hour no one knows, not
even the angels of heaven, nor the son, but My Father only. – Matthew 24:36
Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was
hungry. And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if
perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but
leaves, for it was not the season for figs. – Mark 11:12-13
Therefore, when they had come together, they asked
Him, saying, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to
Israel?" And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times
or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. – Acts 1:6,7
But
Jehovah possesses the infinitive knowledge!
For the Lord is the God of knowledge. – 1
Samuel 2:3
Have
you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator
of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is
unsearchable. – Isaiah 40:28
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His
understanding is infinite. – Psalm 147:5
…to
God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen. – Romans 16:27
ONE WHO
IS TEMPTED BY SATAN CAN BE REGARDED AS GOD HIMSELF? OR EQUAL WITH GOD?
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the
wilderness to be tempted by the devil. –
Matthew 4:1
But God
never be tempted by Evil!
...for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor
does He Himself tempt anyone. – James 1:13
ONE WHO
DOES NOT HAVE ANY AUTHORITIES IN HEAVEN ALSO, CAN BE REGARDED AS GOD HIMSELF? OR
EQUAL WITH GOD?
Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down
and asking something from Him. And He said to her, "What do you
wish?" She said to Him, "Grant that these two sons of mine may sit,
one on your right hand and the other on the left, in your
kingdom." But Jesus answered and said, "You do not know what you
ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized
with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to Him, "We are
able." So He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be
baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on my right hand
and on my left is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared
by My Father." – Matthew 20:20-23
