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NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS.
TO CITE JUST ONE, HE SAID, "I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE."
AND THERE WERE PEOPLE IN HIS AUDIENCE
WHO TOOK GREAT OFFENSE AT THIS.
THEY THOUGHT HE WAS UTTERING BLASPHEMY BECAUSE THEY KNEW
HE WAS CLAIMING TO BE EQUAL WITH GOD.
ON OTHER OCCASIONS, JESUS ALLOWED PEOPLE
TO WORSHIP HIM AS GOD.
CLEARLY, IF HE WAS NOT GOD,
THAT WOULD BE AN ACT OF BLASPHEMY.
AND, OF COURSE, HE WENT AROUND CLAIMING TO FORGIVE PEOPLE FOR
THE SINS THAT THEY HAD COMMITTED AGAINST OTHERS.
IF YOU AND I WATCHED SOMEONE WALKING UP AND DOWN THE STREET
SAYING, "I FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MR. SMITH,
OR I FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MR. JONES."
WE WOULD REGARD SUCH A PERSON AS INSANE
OR PERHAPS A BLASPHEMER.
BUT THIS IS WHAT JESUS DID.
EVERY TIME A PERSON SINNED AGAINST ANOTHER HUMAN BEING,
HE ACTED AS THOUGH THEY HAD ALSO SINNED AGAINST HIM.
THIS IS A CLEAR CLAIM THAT JESUS WAS THE SON OF GOD.