Let us take for example the great miracle of resurrecting the dead by Jesus. If by virtue of having resurrected the dead, one can become God, there are several others according to the Bible who had, performed such miracles. By probing into the Bible thoroughly one can find Jesus  to have performed only three miracles. But it can be found that there were others who had performed much more miracles than Jesus.

" Then the Lord heard the voice of Elijah: and the soul of the child came back to him and he revived. (1 Kings17:22)

" And he went up and lay on the child and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands he stretched himself our on the child and the flesh of the child became warm, he return and walked back and forth in the house and again went up and stretched himself and the child opened his eyes." (2 Kings 4:34-35)

like Jesus, Elijah and Elisha have both performed miracles, the Bible says. Why do the Christians  then refuses to believe then aslo as gods?

In Ezekiel's 37th chapter it is stated that the prophet Ezekiel had resurrected many thousands of bones. If Jesus who resurrected only 3 person - whose bodies were intact-could become a god, Ezekiel who gave life to mere bones which were not in the shape of a body with flesh and that too in thousands should logically be a greater god. Why do the Christians then not accept him as a god. This is to be pondered

" So it was, as they were burying a man, that  suddenly they spied  a band of raiders and they put the man in the tomb of Elisha and when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood on his feet" ( 2 Kings 13:21) 

Does this not  look greater miracle than that of Jesus to the Christians ? If the bones of Elisha could resurrect the bones of others, Elisha should logically be a greater god than Jesus. So it is  not rational to believe Jesus as God just because he resurrected the dead.

These apart, there are others who have performed miracles greater than the other miracles of Jesus. The Bible reports that  Jesus distributed five pieces of bread and two pieces of  fishes to ever so many people. Lets look at the miracles of others.

" Then a man came from Boal Shalisha and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loves of barley bread, and newly ripened  grain in knapsack , And he said" give it to the people, that they may eat"

And his servant  said" what? Shall I set  this before one hundred men?" HE said again, " Give it to the people that they may eat and have some left over.

So he set it before them and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD" (2King4:42-44)

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Then  she said" As the Lord you God lives, I don't have  bread , only a handful of flour in a bin  and a little of oil in a jar and see I am  gathering a couple of  sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son that we may eat it and die.

" And Elisha said to her" Do not fear, go and do as  you have said, but make me a small cake  from it and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son.

" For thus says the Lord God of Israel. The bin of flour shall not be used up, not   shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth. so he went  away  and did according to he word of Ellisha and she and he and her household ate for many days.

The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elisha.' (2 King17: 13-16)

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" So Elisha said to her What shall I do for you? Tell me what do you have in the house? And she said your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil"

Then he said " Go, borrow vessels from everywhere from all your neighbours - empty vessels, do not gather just a few"

and when you have come in, you shall shut door - behind you and your sons, then pour  it into all those vessels and set aside the full ones.

So she went from him and shut the door behind her  and her sons, who brought the vessels were full that she said to her son, " bring me another vessel." And he sad to her, " There is not another vessel". so the oil ceased. (2 King 4:2-4)

The miracle of Jesus  ended in one day. But the miracles of Elisha and Elijah lasted for many days. Actually the Christians should have worshipped Elisha and Elijah if miracles are the criterion to God. What is the justification the Christians brings forward to worship Jesus alone leaving these two?

If Jesus is not God how was he able to work miracle ? The answer for ths question can be fund within the Bible.

Jesus came as a prophet to convey the commandments of God to the people. Since  he was a man, people  refused to believe his as the prophet. To prove  that he was the prophet , God had to sometimes work  miracle through Jesus. Without  the miracle it would not have been  possible to prove him as the prophet. It is  mainly for this reason Jesus worked some miracles. Nevertheless he could not work miracles at his will . Just like Jesus , other prophets too had to work miracles because of the same reason. we can find proof for this in the Bible.

" Now in the morning as he HE returned to the city, HE was hungry.

And seeing a fig tree by the road HE came to it and found nothing on it but leaves and said to it " Let no fruit grow on ever again and immediately the fig tree withered away". (Mathew 21:18-19)

What more proof is required than this to show that Jesus cannot be a god just because he worked a miracle and that he didn't work a miracle of his own?

If Jesus is god because of the miracle he worked, how is that he was hungry? Can God be ever hungry? Will not the God know before hand whether or not there is fruit in the tree? Ignorance and disappointment are not the qualities of God.

Fruit bearing or weathering of the fig tree  is not the will of the tree itself. It is the God who command it. If Jesus is a god it is he who should have made the tree fruitless. Why  should he then curse the tree? Such an action amounts to cursing one's own self  .

Jesus  did work work miracles at times, but with the permission of God. The fact is that he was a man  in all aspects. He was not  free from from weaknesses of man namely hunger, ignorance, disappointment, irascibility. This is quite evident from the above incident narrated in the Bible.

Even if these are not taken seriously there is another aspect. If he is really god, the tree should  have become fruit bearing as soon as he approached it. But this did not happen. Jesus  who provided food for the hungry villagers could not work a miracle to get food  when he himself was hungry. Why is it so? Let the Christians think over.

" The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening and he drank from the brook" (1 King 17:6)

It is natural that the fig tree bears fruit. But in the case of Jesus it has  disappointed him and put him into trouble. IT is the natural  order that crow steels away food from others. Such crows contrary to their nature have brought food to Elijah. Which of the two phenomena, the Christians consider as a miracle? who, among the two is more deserving to be God! This is a matter to be contemplated.

If Jesus had miraculously cured the lepers, there are others too who have done the samething.

" And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying 'Go and wash in the Jordan seven times and your flesh shall be restored to you and you shall be clean" (2 King 5:10)

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" So he went  down and dipped  seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean." (2King5:14)

Jesus of course restored sight to the blind. But then there are others too who have worked exactly the same.

" And Elisha prayed , and said, " Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see. Then the lord opened the eyes of  the young " and he saw" (2 King 6:17)

" So it was when they had come to Samaria, that Elisha said 'Lord open the eyes of these man, that they may see'. And the Lord opened their eyes and they saw, and they were , inside Samaria" (2King6:20)

 

walked on the water and crossed the river

Jesus walked on the water and crossed the river. Moses made the sea to make away for the Israelites to cross the sea.

" So the children of Israel went  into the midst of the sea on the dry ground the water were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. (Exodus 14:22)

"........ and he (Elisha) made the iron float" (2 King 6:6)

There is not a single one among the various  miracles of Jesus which arte cited t argue that he is a god, which was not brought by others before him. They have brought them more effectively too. If the Christians take all of them as gods, there could be justification for their belief in Jesus as a god.

"I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear I judge; and my Judgement is righteous because I do not seek my own will but the will of the father who sent me (John 5:30)

" But if I cast our demons with the finger of God. Surely the kingdom of God has came upon you" (Luke 11:20)

" Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of my father in heaven.

Many will say to me in that day, ' Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in Your name cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name.

And then I will declare to them' I never saw you: depart from me. You who practice lawlessness" (Mathew7:21-23)

All these area warning from Jesus. Jesus says that he could not be a god just because he had worked miracles or because of other reasons. Those who call him god, would be renounced by him. Jesus very clearly  declared that there is no place for such people in paradise.

Further Jesus explained that all the miracles done by him were not out of his own will but were of God's will. What more explanation and from whom do the Christians look for? Could they not discern the truth from this?

" Now he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them

And he marvelled  because of their unbelief then he went about the villages in a circuit teaching" (Mark 6:5-6)

What exactly is the inference from these verses? People had expected more miracles from Jesus. But he could not do anything other then