The divinity of Jesus

In reports of the four evangelists there is no word that authorizes or justifies the idea that Jesus is God. He always put himself in the condition of His son, emphasizing that we also share this situation

" You heard me say, “I am going away and I am coming back to you. If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the
Father is greater than I”.  -  John, 14:28.
 

We already lost count of the times in which we have heard, in initial or closing prayers of conclusion of works and activities of many Spiritists Centres, the responsible for them, after long explanations that eventually turn into genuine and extemporaneous speeches, compunctious and pious recitation of “Ave Maria”, with unmistakable emphasis to the part that says: Holy Mary, Mother of God.

Unfortunately, perhaps because of our spiritual poverty, reflected in an apparent intolerance for everything that is inheritance of the Church, cause us the most discomfort and irritation even something that was long and thoroughly refuted by Allan Kardec, based on the words of Jesus, from the Gospel text itself.

Moreover, it contains an immense absurd that violate the most elementary logic: the divine maternity!

However, it is one of the dogmas of church and on it at the expense of iron and blood, together with other aberrations dogmatic, that church built its coercive theology, entirely different and far from what Jesus preached and lived.

The deification of Jesus is just a bad copy of beliefs and traditions of primitive religions, and some of them were part of Hebrew customs.

The Jews brought from captive the idea that the children of God or even gods, after generated by virgin and fertilized by the deity, used to live among men (there lies the main explanation for the dogma of Immaculate Conception). They admitted, also, the direct communication between God and men, a fact that happened through what they called a holy spirit.

Besides these two beliefs, many others were absorbed by Christianity, in a much more political than religious strategy, and aiming in particular, reconcile the interests of Catholicism with the source power formed. Began, therefore, the Roman Caesar Church that, according to Emmanuel, would be, over the centuries, always with Caesar.

In 325, in the Council of Nicaea, the divinity of Jesus had been accepted by violence and threat of excommunication  Christianity – read it Catholicism - welcomed with open arms various Trinity existing in almost all religions of the past, which the most   known    is   the    Brahman

Trimurti, comprising Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, who lived with those of Acadia (Sin, Shamash and Istar) of Mari (Anat, Dagan and Addu) of Sumerian (An, En-lil and En-Ki), of Babylon (Marduk (Baal) and Shamash ADAD), from China (Fu, Lo and Cho) and from Cananea (Baal, VAM, and MOT). They were suitably adapted to persons of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit inspiring the creation of the dogma of the Holy Trinity, which occurred in the Council of Constantinople I, held in 381 under the tutelage of Teodosio I.

Previously, in 325, the Council of Nicaea, the divinity of Jesus had been accepted by violence and threat of excommunication. At the time, was formally condemned the Aryans, sect founded by Arius, a priest of Alexandria, whose main divergence with the Catholic theologians was the denial of divine nature of the Messiah. He claimed that the child would have, naturally, to be less than the father that is why Jesus was inferior and distinct from God. For the Roman Church, the issue was and still is of fundamental importance. The negative of this belief, means, according to theirs doctors, a major blow in its doctrine. In his “History of Church” (Liv. José Olympio Editora, 1954, p. 43), Father Álvaro Negromonte - one of the most intransigent Brazilian theologians of the last century - protest against the "heretic witty" (Arius) and states that its propose "destroyed the own foundations of Christianity: the Trinity, the Eucharist, the Redemption."

However, paradoxically, this pillar of Christianity in Rome was followed by only 300 of 2,084 prelates who attended that council ...

In reports of the four evangelists there is no word that authorizes or justifies the idea that Jesus is God. He always put himself in the condition of His son, emphasizing that we also share this situation. He never stated, implied or accepted another kind of relationship, and in His words and actions there is no indication of a possible physical or ontological identity with God. Everything is only mere and fancy and human creation.

If Jesus were really God, he would not have rejected the quality of good, because it is itself an attribute of Deity

In “Posthumous Works” (pp. 126 to 138), Kardec has been careful to list one hundred and twenty seven evangelical excerpts that invalidate, explicitly or implicitly, the divinity of Jesus. One hundred and twenty three refer to episodes that occurred during his life, and four, to facts found after his death.

These texts of the Gospels are distributed as follows: twenty-four (24) in Matthew, twelve (12) in Mark, twenty (20) in Luke and sixty-seven (67) in John (See Appendix.)

Some are so obvious that even those with a weak intelligence do not feel any difficulty to understand them perfectly. As an example, we could invoke the 19:16 and 17 chapters of Matthew, 10:17 and 18, Mark, and 18:18 and 19, of John, whose contents are almost identical, with only minor differences in wording: - Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?" "Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments."

The answer given by Jesus prospect some conclusions, namely:

First: The certainty of the unity of God, affirmed categorically. In more simple language, he said: Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone.

Second: If Jesus was really God, he would not have rejected the quality of good, because that is an attribute of Deity itself, especially if you consider that he, more than once stressed the urgent need to yes always be yes and no always be no.

Third: The natural inferiority of the Son (Jesus) in relation to the Father (God), situation which the Holy Trinity does not abides. 

Jesus is for men the model of moral perfection that humanity can follow on Earth

We could bring a number of other statements in which Jesus affirms His inferiority in relation to God. This fact excludes any similarity, identification or confusion between God, Creator and Father, and Jesus, son and creature, despite his superlative degree of spiritual evolution, especially if we take into account that, if something is less than another, they do not may be equal.

In issue No. 625 of THE BOOK OF SPIRITS, the spirituality explains that Jesus was "the most perfect man that God gave to men to serve as a guide and model" and Allan Kardec, in his response to comments, proposed to our contemplation the following considerations:   - "Jesus is for men the model of moral perfection to which humanity can follow on Earth. God offers him to us as the most perfect model and the doctrine that he taught us is the purest expression of His law, because the divine spirit animated him and he was the purest man that appeared on Earth. Some of those who wanted to educate men in the law of God, sometimes misled them by false principles, it happened because they were dominated, themselves, by terrestrial feelings and by confusing the laws that governs conditions of the soul with those governing the life of the body. Several people used divine laws as they were human laws only created to serve passions and dominate men”.

Jesus, in fact, because of his high spiritual attitude, was animated by the divine spirit, but that does not mean and do not allow the conclusion that he was God himself! It is time, for the real spiritists leave the church customs and atavistic legacy of reincarnation conferred to Mary of Nazareth the absurd condition of the mother of God. There is only one real prayer, the one that Jesus taught us: The Our Father.

All others are merely fruit of human imagination and they are almost all characterized by interest and inferior actions of men when they interact with their folklore.

Appendix 

Gospel texts that deny the divinity of Jesus, explicitly or implicitly

 (Data taken from the book Posthumous WORKS) 

1 - DURING HIS LIFE  

2 – AFTER HIS DEATH