If you go around the internet today, you will find relentless attacks on the deity of Christ. It seems that whether it is Muslims, atheists, skeptics, pagans or liberal theologians, there seems to be a stronger attack on the deity of Jesus than ever before.The reality is not what is portrayed in the Davinci Code and other distorted books and movies that have been coming out.
The truth is that Jesus always claimed to be God, and that Christians always believed that Jesus was God from the very beginning of the church.....
Jesus claimed to be God:
John 8:58
"I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
Compare the above passage to Exodus 3:14.....
God said to Moses, "I am who I am . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' "
Here is another passage where Jesus claimed to be God:
John 10:30-33
"I and the Father are one."
Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, 32but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?"
"We are not stoning you for any of these," replied the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God."
Jesus also accepted worship as God.
John 20:28
Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
Notice that Jesus did not correct him.
In the scriptures whenever an angel is worshipped, the angel quickly corrects that person and tells that person not to do it, but Jesus always accepts the worship of mankind in the Scriptures.
Jesus forgave sins, which is something only God can do:
Mark 2:3-7
Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven." Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, "Why does this fellow talk like that? He's blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
The New Testament writers clearly testified that Jesus is God:
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Who was the Word? It was Jesus.
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
There are many additional scriptures that show that the early Christians CLEARLY believed that Jesus is God:
Titus 2:13
while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours
Hebrews 1:8
But about the Son he says,
"Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever,
and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom
Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
Colossians 2:9
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form
Romans 9:5
Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised!
So we can definitely see that the clear testimony of the New Testament is that Jesus is God. In fact, according to Colossians 1:16, He is your Creator:
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.
The film posted below clearly shows from the Scriptures that Jesus believed that He is God, and that the early Christians believed that He was God from the very beginning:
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