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11 Reasons to Affirm the Deity of Christ
NATHAN BUSENITZ | MAY 23, 2016In early church history, one of the biggest theological debates centered on the deity of Jesus Christ. There are still groups that deny His deity today, from Mu…
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sn The construction our Master and Lord, Jesus Christ in v. 4 follows Granville Sharp’s rule (see note on Lord). The construction strongly implies the deity of Christ. This is followed by a statement that Jesus was involved in the salv…
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If you do not understand the Trinity, or the Deity of Christ, you will never understand scripture. We can pick at verses here and there, which we've done for years to no avail, the outcome will remain the same. This following one of several verse…
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The problem is, as long as you see Christ as the unbelieving Jews did, man only, you will not be able to understand scripture any more than they did. Once you grasp the Trinity Doctrine, and the Deity of Christ, you will understand the…
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All of your passages are fine, but not balanced against the passages showing Christ's divinity that I already posted.
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Your view of God is materialistic when you cannot grasp Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as one spiritual essence called God, YHWH, Lord etc.
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Thanks for taking time with this. I hope what I offered makes sense to you.
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I think your biggest problem is in thinking materialistically about God who is Spirit. One God composed of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is impossible if God is physical. That would be three gods. But spiritually, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit a…
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How many times have we beat this dead horse? I mention Kurios as one of several proofs for Christ's deity. But scripture stands unchallenged as absolute proof. You would make your case if you could dislodge it. And save lots o…
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We can cut to the chase, by refuting the three passages I posted from commonly use bibles that say Jesus is God. This is the most efficient way to prove your point.
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If Jesus was man only, your assessment would be true. But he was Also God. “Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,…
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People look at their problems and respond directly to them as they think best. But the more biblically learned will look through their problems and see God, who controls all things. And so any hatred towards those causing their misery …
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We touched on this earlier, but the Greek Kurios in the LXX = YHWH.
“And God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord (kurios).” Exodus 6:2 (LES = Septuagint)
“God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD [YHW…
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Jesus is God, not only in the NT, but in the Old as well. He was in Elisha and others but not in the same way he was the Messiah (God with us).
“And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Fa…
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Jesus gave Peter and the rest of the disciples the power to work miracles. But he is God. Only God can do what he did. And only God can give the power to others to do similar miracles.
But it is creepy to think the entire church is posses…
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You're missing the point. If Jesus is just a man, and his spirit posses each follower, we have some seriously creepy stuff going on here.
But, no man can do what Jesus did. Only God can fill those sandals.
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This is because Jesus is God. Only he can forgive sins. Raise the dead, heal amputees, create eyes from clay and spit. In-dwell the hearts of believers. How creepy would it be if Jesus was merely a man who did this?
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If "soft zones" are the target areas, then opportunity knocks and there is no end in sight.
As far as Total Depravity as understood by the Reformed, it makes little sense to make weapons designed for mass casualties readily ava…
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If you secure schools, you'll only move the violence to the school yard and beyond.
If you do things out of a sound mind, beling Reformed, knowing that madness is in people's hearts while they live, how sane is it to try keepin…
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Your resistance to others trying to call awareness to mass casualties and their attempts to lessen school shootings suggest more than you are letting on.
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Why do you want people who murder people with them to own them?
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Reformed, why do you as a christian want a gun? Or want totally depraved people to have them?
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I'm not sharing the commonly recognized evidence for Christ's deity. It is all over the Internet for the curious. But who can forgive sins but God?
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This could lead to a separate topic. But as I see it, the NRA stands for everything Christ is against. And not knowing anything about Mr. North, I cannot say too much. But if he follows Jesus, he will abandon the sword and take the cro…
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I think once people understand Christ is God as far as his person or what we call spirit is concerned. And he has a fully divine set of attributes (nature), and a fully human nature (mind, or flesh and body without sin), it is easy to …
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I always try to relate what I see to scripture. Is violence in America related to the bloody 2nd Amendment as God's judgement? Or to abortion laws and unjust wars (preemptive strike aggression) as judgement? We see parallels to this in scripture …
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Why have an UZI then?
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Just an observation. But Jesus said those who take the sword will perish by it. And I wonder if the 2nd Amendment isn't coming full circle.
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How do you turn the other cheek and love enemies with an UZI?
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Here are a couple of older manuscript translations based on Kurios in the LXX = God. So Kurios in the NT would also = God. Also note the Granville Sharp rule in translation.
"Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew…
