IS IT TRUE THAT JESUS IS GOD BECAUSE ONE OF HIS NAMES IS "IMMANUEL" WHICH IS TRANSLATED AS "GOD WITH US?

"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us" (Matthew 1:23, NKJV)

ANSWERS: 

1. How do they use this verse? They claim that Jesus is God because the meaning of his name is "God with us." Is this argument valid? No! There is nothing in the verse that explicitly states "Jesus is God" or Jesus is the God who is with us. 

2. The meaning, I repeat "the meaning" of his name "Immanuel" is "God with us." The verse states that the Son will be called by the name "Immanuel."

3. It does not mean that the bearer of the name has the nature of the name. Take for example a man named Cephas. The Bible says that:

"And he brought him to Jesus. Now when Jesus looked at him, He said,"You are Simon the son of Jonah. You will be called Cephas" (which is translated, A Stone)." (John 1:42, NKJV)

Is Simon a literal stone because this name "Cephas" means "stone"? Obviously not. If that's the case, why would you think Jesus is God just because the meaning of his name is "God with us"?

4. Another good example is written in Acts 9:36 about a believer by the name of Tabitha whose Greek name is Dorcas: 

In Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, who was a believer. (Her name in Greek is Dorcas, meaning "a deer.") She spent her time doing good and helping the poor 

(Acts 9:36, GNT).

Is Dorcas a "real" deer since the meaning of her name is "deer"?

5. God was with Jesus. This is what is proven in Acts 10:38 (GNT) that states:

"You know about Jesus of Nazareth and How God poured out on him the Holy Spirit and power. He went everywhere, doing good and healing all who were under the power of the Devil, for God was with him."

6. How did God prove that He was with Jesus?

"Listen to these words, Israelites! Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him. You yourselves know this, for it happened here among you."

Take note that God performed miracles and wonders through Jesus.

However, some would argue that since God made miracles through Jesus, then he could be God. Why is this argument faulty? Because it is not only through Jesus that God performed miracles. God also made miracles through Paul.

God was performing unusual miracles through Paul. Even handkerchiefs and aprons he had used were taken to the sick, and their diseases were driven away, and the evil spirits would go out of them (Acts 11;11-12, GNT). 

Is Paul "God" because God was performing unusual miracles through him? The list would go on: Moses, Elijah, Elisha, Peter. Would these mean qualify as "God"  since God made miracles through them?

In the absence of an explicit statement from Jesus Christ, the advocates or supporters of the teaching that Jesus-is-God resorted to faulty and weak arguments.

From Joe Ventilacion FB posts