purpledawn writes:
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Where in the Bible do they refer to God as a person as in human individual?
Matthew 9:2-6
Mark 2:3-12
John 1:1
John 1:14
John 5:16-18
John 8:58
John 10:30-31
John 10:38-39
John 14:9
John 20:28
Acts 20:28
Colossians 1:16
Colossians 2:9
1 Timothy 3:16
Titus 2:13
Philippians 2:6
Hebrews 1:8
Revelation 1:17
Revelation 22:13
1 Timothy 3:16 is pretty explicit:
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
I can understand why there might be some confusion with those early verses I mentioned since "Son of Man" is an unusual phrase to talk about the divinity, but "God was manifest in the flesh" is pretty much exactly what you were going for.
Now, the Bible immediately contradicts those claims...sometimes in the same chapter. In John 8:40, Jesus says he isn't god:
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
But then just a few verses later in 8:58, he claims he is:
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
A similar contradiction takes place in John 14. First Jesus says he is god and not two dozen verses later, he says he's not. No wonder everybody was having trouble with the accusations against him about whether he claimed to be the son of god.
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Are gods presented as humans in the Bible stories?
With regard to Jesus? Yes.
Rrhain
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