Here’s a 29 Biblical verses referenced in Pastor Ibrahim Dikko Ya’u’s argument that Jesus cannot be God and man cannot be God:
- Hosea 11:9 – “For I am God, and not a man.”
- Numbers 23:19 – “God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.”
- John 8:40 – “But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.”
- Matthew 6:9 – “Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.”
- Luke 6:12 – “Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.”
- Matthew 23:9 – “And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.”
- Mark 15:34 – “Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'”
- Luke 24:19 – “Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people.”
- Matthew 26:39 – “Going a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed, saying, ‘My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me.”
- John 14:28 – “The Father is greater than I.”
- John 12:49 – “For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has given me a commandment.”
- John 14:24 – “The word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.”
- John 5:30 – “By myself I can do nothing.”
- Matthew 19:16-17 – “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.”
- Luke 18:19 – “No one is good except God alone.”
- Luke 3:38 – “Adam, the son of God.”
- Exodus 4:22 – “Israel is my firstborn son.”
- Job 38:7 – “When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”
- Romans 8:14 – “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.”
- Matthew 5:17-18 – “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”
- John 10:40 – “He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.”
- Mark 12:28-29 – “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”
- Mark 12:32 – “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.”
- Deuteronomy 6:4 – “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”
- Isaiah 45:5-6 – “I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God.”
- Hosea 13:4 – “You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.”
- Isaiah 43:3 – “For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.”
- Isaiah 43:1 – “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.”
- Nehemiah 9:6 – “You alone are the Lord. You have made the heavens, the earth, and all that is in them.”
These verses collectively support the argument that Jesus was a servant and Messenger of God, not divine himself.
