Why is it blasphemy to treat Jesus as just another god among many?
It is blasphemy because Jesus is God the Son, the visible image of the invisible God. By Him all things in heaven and earth, visible and invisible, thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers were created, and for Him. Reducing Him to mankind's imagined gods denies His unique Creator identity.
Les explains that the pronoun “who” refers to the Son, whose blood was given for redemption and forgiveness. Paul calls Him the image of the invisible God: the invisible Trinity, the Elohim of the Old Testament, but out of that invisible Godhead stepped one person who took on flesh and became visible. He is before anything else, the firstborn of every creature. By Him, God the Son, all things were created in heaven and earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, dominions, principalities, or powers—everything was created by Him and for Him. Therefore, when people bring this person of the Godhead down to the level of mankind's dreamed-up gods, it is blasphemy. He is the Creator, and one day every human being will know Him as such; the lost will meet Him at the great white throne and will not argue.
Why is it blasphemy to equate God the Son with other gods?
Paul presents God the Son as the image of the invisible God and the Creator by whom all things were made. To reduce Him to the level of mankind's imagined gods is blasphemy because it denies His unique deity and creatorhood; all things were created by Him and for Him.
Why is it blasphemy to put Jesus on the level of the other gods people imagine?
It is blasphemy because Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the Creator by whom all things in heaven and earth, visible and invisible, were created and for whom they exist. Reducing Him to the level of imagined gods denies His unique deity and creative authority. Every human will one day know Him as such.
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Is it wrong to equate Jesus with other gods?
It is blasphemy to bring God the Son down to the level of the various other gods of mankind's dreaming.