Therefore Jesus and was saying to them, "Truly truly I say to you, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. [2]
The above passages (John 5:17, 19) are favorites. Particularly, the passage of John 5:19 is often cited by some believers to deny the deity of Jesus. It is, according to them, an admission of the human ineptitude of the Son who can do nothing of Himself. There is an even greater travesty, namely, that other believers are squeamish about the passage. They avoid it in the fear that it might affirm the denial of the deity of Jesus which they rightly, but sheepishly and timidly, proclaim about Jesus. That is not something to which they are prepared to reply. This fear may be what gave rise to the popular, but mistaken, compromised teaching of Jesus as “one hundred percent man” and “one hundred percent God” as well as talk about the “God part of Jesus” and the “human part of Jesus.”This, interestingly enough or bizarrely enough depending on your perspective, is actually the confluence, the merging, of belief and unbelief concerning the deity of Jesus.
