The following Bible passages describe Jesus praying. If he were God, he would not need to pray. This proves that Jesus is not God.
The Bible itself questions the very highest and most fundamental dogma of Christianity, without which Christianity cannot exist: and this dogma is the Divinity of Christ. No Christian has the slightest doubt that Jesus is God. But this article will open a Christian’s eyes. This article will force every Christian to abandon their Christian faith. Some Christians (especially the practicing and fanatical ones) may even have a mental breakdown from this article, fall into depression, or be “defeated” by it. A Christian has based their entire meaning of life on Christianity, but now there is an unpleasant article that questions their entire faith. The article will spoil the Christian’s joy. Christians are very reluctant to read such articles and are often unable to finish them. The truth is sometimes unpleasant. But even an unpleasant truth moves us forward.
What is the point of this insane frenzy of fanatical Christian preachers and evangelists who are trying with all their might to draw as many sheep as possible to Christianity, which is already founded on lies? After all, Christianity is questioned by the Bible itself.
Don’t let the church fool you! Have your own mind!
The Gospel According to Matthew – Chapter 14
23 When he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray . When evening came, he was there alone.
The Gospel According to Mark – Chapter 1
35 Very early in the morning, he went out and went to a solitary place and prayed there.
The Gospel According to Mark – Chapter 6
46 When he had dismissed them, he went up on the mountain to pray .
The Gospel According to Mark – Chapter 14
35 He went away a little farther and fell to the ground and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
The Gospel According to Mark – Chapter 14
39 He went away again and prayed , saying the same words.
The Gospel according to Luke – chapter 6
12 In those days he went out to the mountain to pray , and he spent the whole night in prayer with God.
The Gospel According to Luke – Chapter 11
1 Once, in a certain place, he was praying .
The Gospel According to Luke – Chapter 22
41 He went away from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down and prayed :
43 And in his agony he prayed more fervently, 45 When he rose from prayer and returned to his disciples, he found them sleeping from grief.
Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer 17:1-26
XVII. Jesus prays for himself – 1 When Jesus had said this, he lifted his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come: Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you, 2 just as you have given him power over all flesh, so that he may give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 And eternal life is this: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have glorified you on earth: I have finished the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.”
Jesus prays for the apostles – 6 I have revealed your name to the people you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they have known that everything you have given me is from you, 8 for the words that you gave me, I have given them. And they have received them and have truly known that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 And all that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. And in them I am glorified. 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am going to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you gave me, that they may be one as we are.
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The Epistle to the Romans – Chapter 8
3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by human nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,
This verse also clearly calls into question the divinity of Christ.
I’ll digress slightly from the topic:
According to Paul, Jesus’ body was sinful. Nevertheless, Christians believe in the great cult of Jesus’ body. While Catholics believe in the Eucharist, Protestants emphasize the importance of Jesus’ blood, which they consider to be the only and most important thing for salvation. So Christians, Christian churches do not follow the Bible at all. Theologians do not like to hear this, as they attribute enormous holiness and cult to Jesus’ body and blood, the cult of forgiveness of sins by Jesus’ blood. Theologians also do not like to hear that Jesus had a body similar to a sinful one, so they believe that Jesus as God was completely sinless, pure, freed from all human-sinful things.
(For example, the Letter to the Hebrews promotes the cult of the sacrifice of Jesus’ body, but this is a rather dubious letter whose author we do not know)
– Jesus himself declares that he is not perfect, he is not good.
The Gospel According to Mark – Chapter 10
17 As he was setting out on a journey, someone ran up to him and knelt before him, asking, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18 Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.”
The Gospel According to Luke – Chapter 18
18 Then a certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
19 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.”
If Jesus were God, it would not be written in the Bible that God resurrected Jesus, but that Jesus resurrected himself.
The Acts of the Apostles – Chapter 4
10 Let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you in good health!
The Acts of the Apostles – Chapter 5
30 The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you had hanged on a tree and killed.
The Acts of the Apostles – Chapter 10
40 God raised him up on the third day and granted him to be seen
The Acts of the Apostles – Chapter 13
30 But God raised him from the dead
33 God has fulfilled this for their children by raising Jesus for us, as it is written in the second Psalm: “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.” 37 But the one whom God raised did not see decay.
The Epistle to the Romans – Chapter 4
24 but also for our sake. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
The Epistle to the Hebrews – Chapter 13
20 Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus,
Letter to the Hebrews – Heb 2:6-9
6 So someone testifies in some place: “What is man that you remember him, and the son of man that you take care of him?”
7 You made him only a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
8 and put everything under his feet.” When he had subjected everything to him, he left nothing that was not subject to him. But now we do not yet see that everything is subject to him.
9 but we see that the one who was created only a little lower than the angels, Jesus, was crowned with glory and honor, because he suffered death, so that by God’s grace he might taste death for all.
First Letter to the Corinthians – 1 Cor 15:27–28
27 For he has put everything under his feet. But when it says, “Everything has been subjected,” it is clear that this excludes the one who subjected everything to him.
28 And when all things have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
Letter to the Hebrews – Heb 5:7–8
7 In the days of his earthly life, with a loud cry and with tears, he offered up prayers and supplications to him who could save him from death; and he was heard because of his reverence.
Christ = Servant of God
In the Bible, Jesus Christ is referred to as **God’s Servant** (in older translations, also as **God’s slave/servant**) in several places.
This title has deep roots in the Old Testament prophecies of the “Suffering Servant” (Book of the Prophet Isaiah), which the early Christian church in the New Testament explicitly applied to Jesus Christ.
Below are all the main quotes divided into the New and Old Testaments (the quotes are from the widely used literal English translations, with reference to the Ecumenical translation).
I. New Testament (Explicit designation of Christ)
In the New Testament, the Greek word παῖς (pais) or δοῦλος (doulos) is translated as “Servant” or “Slave/Servant”. The Acts of the Apostles refers to Jesus by this title in several places.
1. Acts of the Apostles (Peter’s sermon in the Temple)
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Acts 3:13:
“The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.”
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Acts 3:26:
“God, having raised up his Servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”
2. Acts of the Apostles (The joint prayer of the early church)
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Acts 4:27:
“For truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy Servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel…”
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Acts 4:30:
…while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
3. Gospel of Matthew (Application of Isaiah’s prophecy)
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Matthew 12:18:
“Behold, my Servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.”
4. Epistle to the Philippians (Christ’s self-humiliation)
Philippians 2:7:
“…but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant (slave), being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself…”
Other Bible Verses
In biblical textual criticism and systematic theology, there is a group of verses that historically (e.g., during the Arian controversies of the 4th century) and today (in Unitarian theology) serve as the primary arguments against the ontological deity of Jesus Christ and his complete equality with the Father.
These passages point to the subordination of the Son, his limited authority, restricted knowledge, or a clear distinction of his person from “the only God”.
Below are key biblical quotes (translated here using standard English translations such as the ESV):
1. Explicit declaration of subordination to the Father (Subordinationism)
In these verses, Jesus or the apostle Paul clearly define that the Father has a higher position and greater authority than the Son, which contradicts the later dogma of the absolute equality of the persons of the Holy Trinity.
John 14:28
“…If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.”
1 Corinthians 15:28
“When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.”
(Argument: If the Son is the eternal and almighty God equal to the Father, his final subjection to the Father does not make sense).
2. Designating the Father as “the only true God”
These texts grammatically and theologically separate the Father as the sole bearer of true divinity, while placing Jesus in the position of the sent mediator.
John 17:3
“And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God (Greek: *monon alethinon theon*), and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”
1 Corinthians 8:6
“…yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.”
(Argument: Paul strictly distinguishes here between the “one God”, who is exclusively the Father, and the “one Lord”, who is Jesus).
3. Distancing himself from divine attributes and addressing
In these passages, Jesus resists having attributes ascribed to him that belong exclusively to God, or he himself refers to the Father as his God.
Mark 10:18 (also Luke 18:19)
“And Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.'”
(Argument: Jesus directly rejects the title “good” here and redirects it to God as a distinct entity).
John 20:17
“…go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'”
(Argument: Even after his resurrection, Jesus calls the Father his God, which indicates that the Father is above him).
Matthew 27:46
“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?‘”
4. Emphasis on Christ’s humanity and created nature
These texts emphasize the human nature of Jesus or suggest that he was the first created point of the universe, which contradicts the dogma of his uncreated nature.
1 Timothy 2:5
“For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus…”
(Argument: Even after his ascension, the text still defines Jesus as a “man” and places him between God and men, rather than directly in divinity).
Colossians 1:15
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation (Greek: *prototokos pases ktiseos*).”
(Argument: Critics interpret the expression “firstborn of all creation” as meaning that Christ was the first link that God created, rather than the eternal, uncreated Creator).
Revelation 3:14
“The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation (Greek: *he arche tes ktiseos tou theou*).”