MissKate13 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:30 am
You wrote:
“Unless you believe that I am HE, you will die..." He was making the point that he is the means by which God would save the world, not that he is God.”
There is no “HE” in the Greek. Look at your Kingdom Interlinear.
“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins.” (John 8:24)
I AM = Jehovah
That is not how it is translated in versions of the Bible. You are taking the liberty to change the meaning of the verse. King James Version: "Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
Holy Family Edition of the Catholic Bible: "If you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sin."
Revised Standard Version: "You will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he."
I could go on. The translators could see that to round out the understanding of what Jesus was saying, "he" must be involved in the statement, for he was just saying that he was the means by which Jehovah saves, not that he is Jehovah. Read the verses previous to this, and you can get the idea of what he was saying. It has been shown
ad nauseum here on these threads that Jesus couldn't be Jehovah. You have yet to explain Psalm 110 where Jehovah speaks to the Messiah, and Isaiah 61:1,2 where the Messiah is anointed by Jehovah and sent by Jehovah.