Jesus' claim to be God
Jesus as God[edit]
“He who has seen Me has seen the Father”
“I and My Father are one.”
“I am He (the Father)”
“I am in the Father and the Father in Me”
“And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me”
Jesus was not literally God[edit]
“No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared him.”
“I am going to the Father, for My Father is greater than I.”
“I can of Mine own self do nothing...not My own will, but the will of the Father which has sent Me.”
“I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.”
(If Jesus was God Incarnate, He would know all God knows.)[edit]
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”
(Jesus does not pray to Himself)[edit]
“And when He had sent them away, He departed into a mountain to pray.“
(Jesus does not appeal to Himself)[edit]
“My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”
(Bahá'u'lláh affirming Jesus as Lord)[edit]
"Reflect how Jesus, the Spirit of God, was, notwithstanding His extreme meekness and perfect tender-heartedness, treated by His enemies. So fierce was the opposition which He, the Essence of Being and Lord of the visible and invisible, had to face, that He had nowhere to lay His head."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, sec. 23, p. 57)
"Thou hast dealt with the children of the Apostle of God as neither `Ád hath dealt with Húd, nor Thámúd with Salíh, nor the Jews with the Spirit of God (Jesus), the Lord of all being."