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My answer to this question is simple:Jesus was sent by God, The Father, as a sacrifice, so that man could have eternal life. Jesus is the connection between mankind and God, The Father. Through Jesus mankind can have a relationship with God, The Father. In this part of The Bible, Jesus was speaking to Mary Magdalene. Jesus had risen from the dead. Jesus spoke mainly to Jewish people. From the King James Version of the Bible the scripture states:John 20:17 "Jesus saith unto her, 'Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, l ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.'"Jesus was explaining to Mary Magdalene, that she should go back to his disciples or brethren and tell them that she saw him, and that he was going to do what he had told them about. Jesus was born as a man, so he could be identified with mankind.

When Jesus said My Father, and Your Father, and My God and Your God, he was explaining that His Father was their Father, and His God was their God. Jesus gave his life so that mankind could develop a personal relationship with God, The Father. The reason for making the distinction of ONE GOD, ONE FATHER, was because the world and mankind had many gods they worshipped.

AnswerIt is important to note that God to different people mean differently. Because some people tend to look at their problems rather than God Himself. In this case, Mary was looking onto her problem instead of God. Her view of God was a small God, because to her, her current misery was even greater than God Himself! Therefore Jesus said to her about about a seemingly impossible thing -- your God and My God. But what determines how you view God? Some might view God small, some might view God hiding behind their problems, some, like Jesus, His view is only Him and above all things. It is their faith. To Job, God might be big, bigger than most people's because he was faithful. That's why, instead of backsliding, he held on, he praised God in the midst of all the persecutions of demons. In the end, his God rewarded him double the things he had before. So in this case, the revelation is this -- our faith determines how we view God and this makes the difference between your God and my God. AnswerRemember that Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi, and as such was speaking in the context of a Jewish Rabbi, not the modern Christian belief that he was "a God." He was speaking of the God of the Old Testament. Another PerspectiveThe way I read it, it sounds like Jesus is making a connection between Himself and Mary & the other disciples. Even though Jesus did claim to be God (although it's often hard to tell from an English translation), He was also a man, and was subservient to His heavenly Father. By saying "my Father and your Father, to my God and your God," he could've been proclaiming that the same God who resurrected Him would also one day resurrect all who come to Him. AnswerJesus was referring to his Father, God Almighty. This is seen by reading the entire verse where he compares the two 'my Father' and 'my God".

(John 20:17) 17 Jesus said to her: "Stop clinging to me. For I have not yet ascended to the Father. But be on your way to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and YOUR Father and to my God and YOUR God.'"

The Bible refers to Jesus numerous times as the Son of God. His prayer in John chapter 17 shows him praying to God, his Father.

Jesus is a special son of God in that the Bible refers to him as the only-begotten son of God, meaning he is the only one directly created. Col 1:15 speaks of Jesus as the first born of all creation.

(Colossians 1:13-15) 13 He delivered us from the authority of the darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, 14 by means of whom we have our release by ransom, the forgiveness of our sins. 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

This touches on a whole other topic regarding the identity of God Almighty- Jehovah or Yahweh named 7000 in the original Bible texts, but whose name has been progressively deleted in most Bibles in English- and Jesus, God's first born only begotten son.

AnswerE.W. Bullinger, the deliberately uncredited contributor to the Companion Bible and well respected Biblical scholar, says of the posited question: "My...your. This marks the essential difference in His and their relationship with the Father. But because God is the God and Father of our Lord (Eph. 1:3) He is therefore our God and Father too. AnswerHe meant the God of his faith.

This was God's plan.

Have you ever asked why or where

you fit in His plan? Why were you born,

and for what purpose?

Our minds will understand

as we get to know Him.

There are many gods on earth today.

Those that can't hear, can't see, can't talk,

or do anything, yet,

we know from God's Holy Word,

that He is God. The true and living God

that can hear,see and speak to us through

the Bible.

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Prophet Jesus (PBUH) was a messenger of God Almighty he never said " I am god or worship me", all that the Christians believe are the invented theories of non eyewitness saints.

The greatest commandment of the Bible according to prophet Jesus is that GOD IS ONE!

Mark 12

28: One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"

29: "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

30: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

What Jesus was refering in John was that he is not God at all.

i) "My Father is greater than I."

[The Bible, John 14:28]

(ii) "My Father is greater than all."

[The Bible, John 10:29]

(iii) "…I cast out devils by the Spirit of God…."

[The Bible, Mathew 12:28]

(iv) "…I with the finger of God cast out devils…."

[The Bible, Luke 11:20]

(v) "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me."

[The Bible, John 5:30]

"Most assuredly, I say to you, the son can do nothing of himself …" (John 5:19)

How can the Christians call Jesus a God when he is not greater and he can do nothing by himself?

Jesus refuted the remotes suggestion of Divinity.

Consider the following incident mentioned in the Bible:

"And behold, one came and said unto him, 'Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?'

And he said unto him, 'Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.' "

[The Bible, Mathew 19:16-17]

"For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven."

[The Bible, Mathew 5:17-20]

There is not a single unequivocal statement in the complete Bible, where Jesus Christ peace be upon him says… 'I am God' - or where he says… 'Worship me'. ­­­­­­Infect if you read the Bible,

As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God (John 8: 40)

They do blaspheme who say: "God is Christ the son of Mary." But said Christ: "O Children of Israel! worship God, my Lord and your Lord." Whoever joins other gods with God,- God will forbid him the garden, and the Fire will be his abode. There will for the wrong-doers be no one to help. [005:072] Al-Quran.

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