{"id":36065,"date":"2015-08-16T17:08:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=36065"},"modified":"2015-08-16T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:08:54","slug":"a-conversation-about-the-differences-between-god-and-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/a-conversation-about-the-differences-between-god-and-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"a conversation about the differences between God and Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36066\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jesus-and-God-sitting-together.jpg\" alt=\"Jesus and God sitting together\" width=\"500\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jesus-and-God-sitting-together.jpg 500w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jesus-and-God-sitting-together-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jesus-and-God-sitting-together-420x201.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jesus-and-God-sitting-together-460x220.jpg 460w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jesus-and-God-sitting-together-90x43.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/str.typepad.com\/weblog\/2015\/08\/indirect-claims-jesus-is-jehovah.html?cid=6a00d83451d2ba69e201bb08647f0a970d#comment-form\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a><\/strong>, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/str.typepad.com\/weblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stand to Reason blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a short video in which a preacher suggests that several shared titles imply <strong>&#8220;that Jesus is Jehovah&#8221;<\/strong> (and he means by this that they are the same self, so numerically one).<\/p>\n<p>To the contrary, <a href=\"http:\/\/str.typepad.com\/weblog\/2015\/08\/indirect-claims-jesus-is-jehovah.html?cid=6a00d83451d2ba69e201bb08647f0a970d#comment-form\" target=\"_blank\">I point out<\/a> some <strong>ways in which Jesus differs<\/strong> from God, in the portrayals of the New Testament:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;only Jesus has a god over him, prays to God, doesn&#8217;t know certain things, only does what he sees God doing, is sometimes unable to do a miracle, fears the future, submits his will to God, has faith in God, is tempted, dies, is raised by God from the dead, serves as the mediator between humans and God, and <a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/god-and-his-son-the-logic-of-the-new-testament\/\" target=\"_blank\">calls *someone else* &#8220;the only true God.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first additional commenter, at least, <strong>doesn&#8217;t deny<\/strong> the <a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/a-formulation-of-leibnizs-law-the-indiscernibility-of-identicals\/\" target=\"_blank\">indiscernibility of identicals<\/a>. (Yeah!) Instead, he tries to deny that any of these are in fact differences between them, as God also has all the named qualities. (D&#8217;oh!)<\/p>\n<p>Does he make his case?\u00a0Check out the post and comments: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/str.typepad.com\/weblog\/2015\/08\/indirect-claims-jesus-is-jehovah.html?cid=6a00d83451d2ba69e201bb08647f0a970d#comment-form\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Indirect Claims Jesus is Jehovah<\/a>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, at the Stand to Reason blog. In response to a short video in which a preacher suggests that several shared titles imply &#8220;that Jesus is Jehovah&#8221; (and he means by this that they are the same self, so numerically one). To the contrary, I point out some ways in which Jesus differs from God,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/a-conversation-about-the-differences-between-god-and-jesus\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">a conversation about the differences between God and Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,15,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-christology","category-complaints","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36070,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36065\/revisions\/36070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}