Why did Jesus Christ say that He can do nothing of Himself,

if -as Christians claim- He was God??

    To begin with, easy passages like these making such type of statements, cannot be understood by people that have not yet got even a light grasp of the magnificent "mystery" of the incarnation of the Son in a human body.

I will here therefore explain.

In the Greek NT (I am Greek), in the book of Philippians, we read:

Php 2:5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Php 2:6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Php 2:7 but (Greek literal translation ->) emptied himself out by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Php 2:8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

---So we learn, that the Son of God, supernaturally, miraculously, poured out ALL HIS GLORY, to become a human, but kept only His Self-Awareness, His "ego", His "I am”, that is eternal and internal Identity of who He was before he came to earth in the form of a human named Jesus Christ. The Son of God however, Jesus Christ, received all His glory again after He resurrected, that is why we read:

Joh 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Joh 17:4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

Joh 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

(See also e.g. Matt.25:31, Luk 25:26-27)

    Now having said that, it’s important to know what “glory” means. His "glory" are all the attributes that were within Him when He was in the form of God, and that were expressed, made manifest to angels and other Beings, before humans came to existence. (This btw is the definition of glory discerned in 1Co 11 when speaking of the glory of woman, that is, her hair (being in her and expressed out of her, resulting to her admiration and beautification), that Satan wants muslim women to have covered up in public; is that a coincidence??) Those attributes, like being omnipresent, and omniscient, were literally removed when he "emptied himself out" (in Greek: εαυτόν εκκενωσεν) and this so that He would come and live among us as 100% human, like we all are! In this theological context, He would not speak of Himself, since He did not have the omniscience He had before He was born on earth, but was given what to say and when to say it, by the Omniscient Father (through the Holy Spirit) and for His divine purposes.

-Christians and especially Muslims and atheists cannot comprehend the MAGNIFICENCE of the mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God if they do not understand Philp.2:5-8.

    You being Muslim, have you ever heard of the above? Have you ever read at least the four Gospels ON YOUR OWN, to see how Christian for more than 700 years UNDERSTOOD AND BELIEVED IN Jesus Christ? If you did, only then, you would realize why real born of God believers, can NEVER accept any claim your religion makes about Jesus Christ. If you have not read the New Testament yourself, you cannot know if Islamists have lied to you, you cannot know why Christians believe you allah and Muhammad were indirectly prophesied liars, to mislead people far from the Saviour of mankind, your personal Saviour too. Satan must hide Who Jesus really was and what He really did for mankind. You however, still have the right to humble yourself and quest the truth in you, search to find it, before it’s too late.

-One time with Islam and one time with Mormonism, this prophecy was fulfilled, centuries after it was written:

Gal 1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of the Messiah and, instead, are following a different gospel, 

Gal 1:7 not that another one really exists. To be sure, there are certain people who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel about the Messiah. 

Gal 1:8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that person be condemned! 

Gal 1:9 What we have told you in the past I am now telling you again: If anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that person be condemned!

ꟷIndeed friend, an angel came to both these religions and his message was different to both of them and naturally contradicting the initial Gospel of Jesus Christ and His disciples. This demonic angel was of Satan who from the beginning of time wanted to take the place of God. Apostle Paul, an apostle of the real God of the Bible, warned us it may happen and it did. Read here, Satan wants to perverse his mission as well knowing what a great man of God apostle Paul was:

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May the real God see a sincere heart in you, so that He will want to lead you to Him, Amen.

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