GO TO: Jesus Is God

• Jesus makes himself equal to God (John 10:30)
  
• The Jewish religious leaders re-state Jesus' claim of Divinity when they respond "being man, make yourself God" (John 10:33). 
  
• Jesus calls himself the holiest of names when he calls himself "the name", I AM (John 8:58).  
• This was known as "the name" of God (Ex 3:14). 
• the Jews wanted to kill him because of the magnitude of that claim (John 8:59).
• holy of a title and name that anyone who blasphemes it is killed (Lev 24:16). 

•  The apostle John fully understood the identity of Jesus, He makes it perfectly clear who Jesus is and straight up says "the word was God" (John 1:1).  That God himself clothed himself in flesh, but was still God (John 1:14).  
• An "a" inserted into John 1:1 to render it "was a god" is not in any biblical manuscripts.  This is a added word in the failed New World translation.  The Alexandrian Text types and Byzantine Text Types both say θεός (theos) or "God".  There is no "a".

•  Luke expresses that God bought the church with his own blood, the blood of Jesus.  That makes Jesus God (Acts 20:28).  With whos blood?  God's "own blood".  The greek word, in both Alexandrian texts and majority texts,  ἴδιος idios literally means "His own".
• Some add the word "son" to render the verse "His own son" but that is not in the text. The author knew the difference between God and his Son, yet, purposely did not include the distinction of the son and God different here;

•  Thomas bluntly declared Jesus as "my Lord and my God" (John 20:28).
• Jesus did not correct or rebuke Thomas' confession but instead embraced it.
• If Jesus was not God, or just "a" god, then should Jesus have corrected Thomas?  Should Jesus have said, "No,Thomas, I am not the God.  I am a god." or "I am not a god, please do not worship me for it is blasphemy to do so"?  But Jesus did not.
• Without adding to context that isn't there of John 20:28, there is no getting around the fact that Thomas called Jesus 2 things, Lord AND God. Separating the two is assuming what is not stated. The combination of the two is.
• Some will argue that Thomas was just surprised and exclaimed "oh my gosh" kind of remark.  This is a failed western view that a religious Jew would not have said given that phrase was not in that culture.

•  2 Peter 1:1 that we obtain righteousness from "our God and savior Jesus Christ".  The Alexandrian text types and Textus Receptus texts literally states: τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ σωτῆρος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. Which translates to: "of our God and Savior Jesus Christ".  Peter purposefully and literally connects God to Jesus.  
  
• Isa 9:6 states "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace".
• Some will ignorantly argue that "mighty god" and "Almighty God" are two different gods.  But when we look at other places in scritpure and given the context we see this is not the case here.  Isa 10:21 states "The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God".  The same word for God as 'mighty' is used. Same word is used in Jeremiah 32:18 describing God.  Both refer directly to God The Father; which is the same word referring to Jesus in Isa 9:6.

•  Throughout scripture we see instances of people worshiping Jesus and Jesus accepts their worship (Matthew 2:11; 14:33; 28:9, 17; Luke 24:52; John 9:38). 
• Some will argue that they mearly 'bowed down'.  The failed New World Translation attempts to re-translate the words in an attempt to erase the worship of Jesus.  But they did worship Jesus. Matthew 2:11 specifically states: "and fell down, and worshiped him" not only did they "bow down" but ALSO/AND "worshiped HIM". Matthew 14:33 specifically uses the literal word "worship" προσκυνέω proskyneō. Also the same specific word in Matthew 28:9, 17; Luke 24:52; John 9:38.
• The New World Translations attempts to render Matthew 2:11 as "and falling down, they did obeisance to him".
• that is not what ANY of the biblical manuscripts say.  Yes they fell down, as stated, but then they bowed again after falling down?  The word obeisance is used because if "bowed down" was used, it would expose the absurdity of the translation.  The translation in and of itself does not make sense, "and falling down, they bowed down to him"?
• this word, is the same word used in Rev 7:11, 11:16; and occurs 65 times in the Textus Receptus New Testament for the same word describing worship of God.
• These actions were rebuked by Peter when people worshiped Peter "As Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet to worship him. 26 But Peter helped him up. “Stand up, he said, “I am only a man” myself. " (Acts 10:25-26)

•  Hebrews 1:8 makes this connection.  First, he says "but of the Son [Jesus] He [God] says". Then goes into what God says about His Son:  "Your throne O God is Forever and ever".  God even declares that the Son is God.  So, rendered in plain english: But of the Son He Says your throne O God is forever and ever.  That they are one and the same.
  
• Titus 2:13 is much like other instances in scripture where Jesus is equated to God himself.  "the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus".  These two are purposefully put together.  Jesus Christ is both God and Savior according to Paul when writing to Titus.
  
• Isaiah 7:14 gives an interesting name to the child who will be born from a virgin.  The name is Immanuel- which literally means "God with us" as defined in Matthew 1:23.
• The Magi understood what Isaiah said and the meaning of this name.  When they saw baby Jesus, they bowed down AND worshiped him (Matthew 2:11).  The word here used for their action of worship is the same word used when describing others worshiping God.

• Colossians 2:9-10 Paul could not make it anymore clear to that church when he said "in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form".  Another elegant way of saying "...the word became flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1:14) without calling him by his name 'Immanuel'
  
• Ignatius of Antioch (105AD), a disciple of the Apostle John stated this: "God Himself was manifested in human form for the renewal of eternal life" He later states "Continue in intimate union with Jesus Christ our God" and "I pray for your happiness forever in our God, Jesus Christ".  
• Justin Martyr (150AD) stated this: "The Father of the universe has a Son. And He, being the first-begotten Word of God, is even God". 
• Irenaeus of Lyons (185AD) stated "He indicates in clear terms that He is God, and that His advent was in Bethlehem… God, then, was made man, and the Lord Himself save us". And "He is God for the name Emmanuel indicates this". 
• Hippolytus (203AD) stated this: "The Logos alone of this One is from God Himself. For that reason also, He is God. Being of the substance of God. In contrast, the world was made from nothing. Therefore, it is not God". 
• Tertullian (213AD) even declared "For the very church itself--properly and principally--the Spirit Himself, in whom is the Trinity [trinitas], of the One Divinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit".  
• Origen (228AD) stated "Saving baptism was not complete except by the authority of the most excellent Trinity of them all. That is, it is made complete by naming the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In this, we join the name of the Holy Spirit to the Unbegotten God (the Father) and to His Only-Begotten Son".
  
• Lucian of Samosata (120-180AD; ~115 years after Jesus) was a satirist and Roman comedian who very negative and sarcastically critical of Christians. He wrote several books and in a negative since, affirms Christianity.
• "The Christians. . . worship a man to this day

• Pliny the Younger (61-113AD; ~65 years after Jesus) a Roman non-christian wrote a letter to emperor Trajan and mentioned some things about Christianity. 
• “They (the Christians) were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god"