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He Himself
declared that He was God when He said to the Jews: “Before Abraham was, I am”
(John 8:58),
and also when He said to them: “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). Jesus proved
that He was God in that He forgave men their sins and such a thing can be
done only by God, as it is written: “Bless the Lord, O my soul …. Who
forgives all your iniquities” (Psalm 103:2,3 – NKJV). When Jesus forgave that
paralytic his sins, the scribes and the Pharisees thought to themselves that
Jesus was blaspheming because sins can be forgiven by God alone (Mark 2:7)
while Jesus was a man like them. However, the fact is that they did not know
that besides being a man, Jesus was also God. He was the Word made flesh, and
since in the beginning the Word was with God and was God, the Word was God even
after He was made flesh (John 1:1-2, 14). The Word did not cease to be God
after He became a human being with a body made of flesh and bones, but He
continued to be God.
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