Do you believe that Jesus Christ is God?
I am curious about this too. I wrote to you Magdelena about this explaining with bible verses that he is God in the "Religion, Faith, and Rituals" thread, but didn't get a response. Maybe you missed it.
"I just want to show you that Jesus is not only the Son of God, but is God as well
""In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John1:1). "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14).
From these two verses we can see that Jesus was the Word and it says, "the Word was God."
"Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am (John 8:58).
"And God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM'; and He said, Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you (Exodus 3:14).
Again by comparing scriptures we see that Jesus was God.
"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross" (Philippians 2:5-8).
"But of the Son He says, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom" (Hebrews 1:8).
People will believe what they want. There are tons of people who say they believe in God, but do not believe the gospel, but since what Jesus did on the cross is the only way to be kept from hell, do you think it is loving and kind to not tell these people the truth knowing they will go to hell because they don't know?
Many people who don't believe in Jesus say they hear God's voice and experience great joy, peace, and miracles from him. However, Jesus said he is the only way to be saved.
Now God provides good for the believer and unbeliever as well.
"He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous" (Matthew 5:45).
However, one day all His love and goodness will be removed from those who didn't believe in what Jesus did for them on the cross. All those who didn't believe will wake up to such a horrific reality that I don't think any of us could comprehend. All of God's love (which means all love) and all of God's goodness (which means all goodness) will be gone for them and they will never have a chance again to be with God again. Now is the time people have a chance to know God and get saved. If we don't speak the truth we would be those who don't care about them because we know what is going to happen later. We should tell them in love, but we should never hide the truth.
If a young child is about to run in the street and get hit by a car and their parent is too far away to stop them, are you going to stop them when they are right next to you, or are you going to let them get hit by the car?
If you want people to have love and beauty, then you should want that for them forever.