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(1)
'Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not
only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was His
Father, making Himself equal with God' (John 5:18).
(2)
'I and My Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to
stone Him ... Thou, being a man, makest Thyself God' (John 10:30
-33).
(3)
'Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God' (John
20:28).
The attributes of God are placed in severe contrast
with those of man, as the following will be enough to demonstrate:
As To Man
As To God
'We
are but of yesterday, and
'Thou art from everlasting' (Psa. 93:2).
know
nothing, because our days
He ... 'inhabiteth eternity' (Isa.
upon
57:15).earth are a shadow'
(Job
8:9).
'Who art thou, that thou
'And forgettest the Lord thy
shouldest be afraid of a man that
Maker, that hath stretched forth
shall die, and of the son of man
the heavens, and laid the
which shall be made as grass'
foundations of the earth' (Isa.
(Isa. 51:12).
51:13).
'Put not your trust in princes,
'Happy is he that hath the God
nor in the son of man, in whom
of Jacob for his help, whose hope
there is no help. His breath
is in the Lord his God: which
goeth forth, he returneth to his
made heaven, and earth, the sea,
earth; in that very day his
and all that therein is: which
thoughts perish' (Psa. 146:3,4).
keepeth truth for ever' (Psa.146:5,6).
'The thoughts of man ... are
'The counsel of the Lord
vanity' (Psa. 94:11).
standeth for ever, the thoughts of
His heart to all generations' (Psa.
33:11).
'How much less in them that
'The heaven and heaven of
dwell in houses of clay, whose
heavens cannot contain Thee'
foundation is in the dust, which
(1 Kings 8:27).
are crushed before the moth'
(Job 4:19).
'All flesh is grass, and all the
'The Lord God Omnipotent'
goodliness thereof is as the
(Rev. 19:6).
flower of the field' (Isa. 40:6).
'The glory of the Lord shall
endure for ever' (Psa. 104:31).
'A man that shall die' (Isa.
'Who only hath immortality'
51:12).
(1 Tim. 6:16).
He 'turneth the wise
'The immutability of His
men backward, and maketh
counsel' (Heb. 6:17).
knowledge foolish' (Isa. 44:25).