To Whom is Divinity Ascribed and to Whom is it Due - THE Conundrum of Eternity

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Apr 19, 2021 at 13:52

After decades of struggling with finding sources of truth and initially believing in faith in the person of Yeshua, Issa, Jesus, the Son of Man, and the Son of God, a much clearer affirmation of that faith emerged from sources that I would never have considered in my youth; indeed from my youth, the contravening voices from even 'Christian' institutions had no more influences to add from the erratic historic paths of so many debates, one wondered, how, exactly, did Christianity survive. There is an answer, but not from the places or people one might have hoped. The true basis is in the Person of the Savior Himself; and if He (Yeshua) was/is not God, then how did Christianity survive when, for example, so does Islam? And further, why the need for the struggle for the truth? Part of the problem is actually inferred in this exchange: is inflexibility intolerance? If this observer is inflexible by maintaining Yeshua is the Son of God, the Holy One of Israel, is that intolerant? Beyond the standard 'Christian' position, where is the proof? Strangely, there is a clue in the Quran, but it deflects and falls short. It too, is inflexible; yet where does that come from?
Going back to the earlier proposition, is there, in fact, Divinity in Yeshua and where did/does that originate? How have centuries of the Hebrew Holy Writ been handled, from previously hidden sources of ancient languages that alluded to the Deity of the God that Abraham followed from Ur of the Chaldees to the land under which these very contentions we face now are debated: whose truth; or more to the point, Who is God that we should follow Him instead of the alternative being debated today? If there is any inflexibility in which truth to follow, would it not be based on the proof we face today in who will reign in Israel in the future? That is what is being faced and challenged today.

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