What then? Art thou Elijah? And he saith, I am Not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No"- John 1:21.
Again, John states that he is not Elijah, while Jesus says that he is. Is one of them lying? No! John says he is
not Elijah [in a literal sense]; while Jesus says he is Elijah [in an allegorical sense].
Consider a second example: Jesus claims to be the King of the Jews ("Now Jesus stood before the governor.
And the governor asked him, saying, 'Are you the King of the Jews?'. [And] Jesus said to him, 'It is as you
say' "- Matthew 27:11. But, did Jesus really want to be the [literal] king of the Jews? Of course not! Jesus
didn't want to have anything to do with human politics. How do we know it? We know it from the fact that
when the Jews tried to make him their [literal] king, Jesus fled away from them ("When Jesus therefore
perceived that they [THE JEWS] would come and take him by force, TO MAKE HIM KING, he departed
again into a mountain himself alone"- John 6:15). The truth is that Jesus wasn't talking about any physical
kingdom somewhere in this world, but rather about an "out of this world" (non physical) kingdom. As he
himself said: "Jesus answered, 'my kingdom in not from this world... my kingdom is not from here' "- John
18:36.
Finally, consider the following: Jews expected a literal Messiah- the "branch of Jesse" (or the biological "Son
of David") mentioned by the prophet ("There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch
shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, The Spirit of Wisdom and
understanding... He shall strike the Earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall
slay the wicked"- Isaiah 11:1-4). But, was Jesus the literally (biological) Son Of David? of course not! Why?
Two main reasons; in the first place [and according to the gospel], Jesus had no biological father, as he was
[allegedly] conceived by the Holy spirit; therefore he could not have been a biological son of any of Jesse's
male descendants (keep in mind that Jews traced tribal lineage by their father's genealogy). Secondly, Jesus
himself rejected that the Messiah would be a literal son of David. Why? Because, according to Jesus, it
would be odd for a father to call any of his offspring "Lord". As is written: “How can the scribes say that the
Messiah is the son of David? David himself says by the Holy Spirit: The Lord declared to my Lord, ‘Sit at
my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet’... DAVID HIMSELF CALLS HIM ‘LORD’; HOW
THEN CAN HE BE HIS SON?”- Mark 12:35-37.
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