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When Jesus Said He Wasn't God's Equal

A carpenter from Galilee kept saying he was under God, not equal to him. The Church turned him into God anyway.

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Tanner the Humanist
Sep 10, 2025
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Split image of Jesus teaching a crowd and later church leaders elevating him as God, symbolizing the shift from Jesus’ own words to the doctrine of the Trinity.

Picture it: you’re sitting in a crowd, listening to Jesus talk. He’s healing people, telling stories, flipping tables when priests get greedy. But every time he opens his mouth about himself, he says the same thing: “I’m not God. God is above me. I was sent. I obey.”

Fast forward two thousand years. You walk into a church and hear: “Jesus is God. Equal w…

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