If Jesus Thought That He Was God

If Jesus Thought That He Was God

If Jesus thought that he was God

It tends to beg a question why

Would he believe a thing so odd,

To utter, “God, indeed, am I!”

For, being he was born a Jew,

Believing that our God is One,

I’d wonder how could Jesus do

As no Jew would’ve ever done?

It isn’t likely he would claim

Such strange impossibility,

To be one and the very same;

God isn’t what a man can be.

In doing what Jews do in prayer,

Declaring, God his Father was;

Therefore he must’ve been aware

That he was just like one of us;

So that would mean that he was not

The father of himself because

Then it would make his father what

Nobody in his right mind was.

There was the brother Jesus had

Whose name was James albeit he

Said, Joseph was in fact his Dad—

Shared they the same paternity?

Although they say Mary was not

James’ mother in a way that she

Was Jesus’s, you’d wonder what

James’ claim was for maternity?

Be that as might be, after all, 

We know a little more about

How James’d be offset by Paul:

As James’s line had petered out.

The Jewish roots of Jesus were

By Church theologists denied

Who’d go so far, as they’d aver,

The Jews committed deicide.

Nothing was further from the fact—

As what the Church itself had done

Was on God do their own contract,

As they claimed Jesus was his Son.

While Jesus when he chose to pray

Called God a Father and a King,

Which, after all’s what all Jews say

Since that is just a Jewish thing;

But what the Church managed to do

Was take a man and make him God

Though all the time he’d been a Jew

Who’d think: “This all is very odd!”