Jerry Shugart
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Jesus never said he was God, but the son of God, and the Jews tried to twist his word to make it that he was making himself as God so that they put him to death for blasphemy.
Let us look how Paul used the term "son of..." when speaking to a sorcerer named Elymas:
"O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?" (Acts 13:10).
Of course Paul was not saying that Elymas was a literal son of the devil. Instead, he was saying that the "nature" of Elymas is that of the devil. So when it is said that the Lord Jesus is the "son of man" what is being said that His nature is that of man. And when it is said that He is the "son of God" what is being said is that His very nature is that of God.
Let us look at the way that the Unitarians understood the term "son of man" in regard to the Lord Jesus. The say:
"He did not 'toot his own horn,' but instead called himself 'the son of man,' which, in the Aramaic language he spoke, meant 'a man'" (biblicalunitarian.com).
Since in the Aramaic language the term "son of man" means "man" then we can understand that in the same language the term "son of God" means "God."
Jesus clearly corrected the Jews here, when they said that he blasphemes because tried to make himself God , he said you say that I blaspheme because I say that I am the son of God?
Oh, yes, by all means. He corrected them so good that they still wanted to kill Him:
"Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand" (Jn.10:36-39).
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