Gospel of John (16_30
Gospel of John (16:30)
You will find many Christians citing the text “Jesus departed from the Lord” in order to delude people into believing that this text is evidence of Jesus’ divinity in their book!!!
The Gospel of John (16:30) states the following:
Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you questions. Therefore we believe that you came from God.
But in reality☝️, this text is not evidence of Jesus’ divinity; because this same text has been applied to several other people besides Jesus. Rather, this text has also been applied to bad things, for example:
The First Epistle of John (4:4) states the following :
You are from God, children.
The First Epistle of John (4:6) states the following:
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us.
These texts☝️ tell us that people other than Jesus are also from the Lord.
Also, the Holy Bible frequently used the phrase: “came from the Lord ,” and applied it to several things other than Jesus, for example:
The first book of Samuel (16:14) states the following:
And the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him .
- The following is mentioned in 1 Samuel (16:23):
And it came to pass, when the spirit of God came upon Saul, that David took the lyre and played with his hand: and Saul was refreshed and well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
The evil spirit has gone out and come from the Lord as well, so is it a god or a hypostasis?!
Also, the Holy Bible used the phrase “came from the Lord” to refer to several things; for example:
The following is mentioned in the Book of Leviticus (9:24):
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar.
The following is mentioned in the Book of Leviticus (10:2):
Then fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.
The following is mentioned in the Book of Numbers (16:35):
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who offered incense.
The same thing was repeated in (Genesis 19:24), (Revelation 20:9)…,
Is fire a god or a divine hypostasis?!
★ The Book of Psalms (127:3) states the following:
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord , the fruit of the womb a reward.
Are sons hypostases?
★ Also, it is mentioned in the Holy Book that the Holy City descends from heaven from the Lord, as stated in (Revelation 21:2) , (Revelation 21:10)
Is the holy city a god or a divine hypostasis?!
The following is mentioned in Genesis (4:1):
And Adam knew Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a husband from the Lord.”
Was Cain a god or a hypostasis?
★ The Holy Book states that the evil person’s portion is from God.
Job 20:29
This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his affair from the Almighty.
Finally, we have proven to you that the phrase “Jesus departed from the Lord” does not at all indicate his divinity.
By the way, the word (exited) in this text is translated from the Greek word (ἐξῆλθον) , and is pronounced (exile zone) , and this word has been used dozens of times in the Holy Book in a normal way, for example:
Matthew 21:17 states the following:
Then Jesus left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.
Are Jesus and the city two persons, and was Jesus born from the divine essence of the city?!
The same Greek word is used with the Gospel of Matthew (13:1).
[On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea]
- As for the meaning of the phrase “the Messiah came from the Lord ,” it means that the Messiah is a messenger from God, just as we believe that the rest of the messengers are sent by God.
So if you complete the text you will find him saying:
Gospel of John 8:42
[Then Jesus said to them, “For I proceeded forth and came from God. For I did not come of myself, but he sent me .”]
The Gospel of John 16:28 explains the meaning of “Jesus departing from the Lord”:
“I came from the Father, and I have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father .”
Note that the previous text ☝️ used words like (left from), (came to), (went to) . The text does not speak of hypostatic separation, hypostatic emergence, or anything of the sort.
Rather, the text means that Jesus came into the world just as we also came into this world, and then we will go and leave this world and go to God.
Conclusion: We are faced with a large group of Christians who distort the texts of the Holy Bible to suit their moods, taking each text and interpreting it either symbolically or literally as they please. If the text is talking about Jesus, they will interpret the text as evidence of Jesus’ divinity. If the text is talking about someone other than Jesus, they will say that the text is symbolic 🤷🏻♂️