It is some\u00adtimes alleged that the Bible does\u00adn\u2019t real\u00adly claim that Jesus is God. This is a list of pas\u00adsages that estab\u00adlish the doc\u00adtrine. This list isn\u2019t writ\u00adten to per\u00adsuade non\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00aders that Jesus is in fact God, but to per\u00adsuade every\u00adone that the Bible indeed claims that He is.<\/i><\/p>\n
Pas\u00adsages That Explic\u00adit\u00adly Assert Jesus\u2019 Divin\u00adi\u00adty<\/b><\/p>\n \nJesus Is Described As Though He Were God<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Best Sum\u00adma\u00adry Pas\u00adsage: Philip\u00adpi\u00adans 2<\/b> Extra\u00adbib\u00adli\u00adcal Con\u00adfir\u00adma\u00adtion <\/b><\/p>\n I don\u2019t guess this real\u00adly mat\u00adters, since this is about whether the Bible teach\u00ades that Jesus is God or not, but I per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly find it extreme\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/i><\/p>\n Pliny the Younger (a Roman gov\u00ader\u00adnor) wrote a let\u00adter to the Emper\u00ador Tra\u00adjan short\u00adly This is very ear\u00adly extra\u00adbib\u00adli\u00adcal doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion that the ear\u00adly Chris\u00adtians wor\u00adshiped Jesus as God. In oth\u00ader words, this is inde\u00adpen\u00addent tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adny that the Chris\u00adt\u00adian belief in the deity of Christ was one of the ear\u00adli\u00adest tenets of faith, not some late add-on as is some\u00adtimes alleged.<\/p>\n Mur\u00adray J. Har\u00adris\u2019 mas\u00adter\u00adful book Jesus As God was an invalu\u00adable resource in com\u00adpil\u00ading this data\u2013most of it is direct\u00adly lift\u00aded from Appen\u00addix 2 of his work.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is some\u00adtimes alleged that the Bible does\u00adn\u2019t real\u00adly claim that Jesus is God. This is a list of pas\u00adsages that estab\u00adlish the doc\u00adtrine. This list isn\u2019t writ\u00adten to per\u00adsuade non\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00aders that Jesus is in fact God, but to per\u00adsuade every\u00adone that the Bible indeed claims that He is. Pas\u00adsages That Explic\u00adit\u00adly Assert Jesus\u2019 Divin\u00adi\u00adty \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cDoes The Bible Teach That Jesus Is God?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-answers-to-honest-questions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n Word was God<\/strong>. (John 1:1, NIV)<\/li>\n
\n is near to the Father\u2019s heart; he has told us about him. (John 1:18, NLT)<\/li>\n
\n hand and put it into my side. Stop doubt\u00ading and believe.\u201d Thomas said
\n to him, \u201cMy Lord and my God!\u201d <\/strong>Then Jesus told him, \u201cBecause you have
\n seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have
\n believed.\u201d (John 20:27\u201329, NIV)<\/li>\n
\n made you over\u00adseers. Be shep\u00adherds of the church of God, which he bought
\n with his own blood<\/strong>. (Acts 20:28, NIV)<\/li>\n
\n Christ, who is God over all,<\/strong> for\u00adev\u00ader praised! Amen. (Romans
\n 9:5, NIV)<\/li>\n
\n God and Sav\u00adior, Jesus Christ,<\/strong> who gave him\u00adself for us to redeem us
\n from all wicked\u00adness and to puri\u00adfy for him\u00adself a peo\u00adple that are his very own,
\n eager to do what is good. (Titus 2:13\u201314, NIV)<\/li>\n
\n Christ<\/strong> have received a faith as pre\u00adcious as ours\u2026 (2 Peter 1:1, NIV)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nPas\u00adsages That Implic\u00adit\u00adly Assume Jesus\u2019 Divin\u00adi\u00adty<\/b>
\nOld Tes\u00adta\u00adment Pas\u00adsages That Describe Yah\u00adweh Are Applied to Jesus<\/p>\n\n
\n quo\u00adta\u00adtion of Psalm 101:27\u201328 in the Sep\u00adtu\u00adagint trans\u00adla\u00adtion)<\/li>\n
\n pas\u00adsages describe what Yah\u00adweh and Jesus look like in visions).<\/li>\n\n
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\n Corinthi\u00adans 13:14; Rev\u00ade\u00adla\u00adtion 22:13 cf. Rev\u00ade\u00adla\u00adtion 21:6)<\/li>\n\n
\nYour atti\u00adtude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
\n Who, being in very nature God,
\n did not con\u00adsid\u00ader equal\u00adi\u00adty with God some\u00adthing to be grasped,
\n but made him\u00adself noth\u00ading,
\n tak\u00ading the very nature of a ser\u00advant,
\n being made in human like\u00adness.
\n And being found in appear\u00adance as a man,
\n he hum\u00adbled him\u00adself
\n and became obe\u00addi\u00adent to death\u2013
\n even death on a cross!
\n There\u00adfore God exalt\u00aded him to the high\u00adest place
\n and gave him the name that is above every name,
\n that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
\n in heav\u00aden and on earth and under the earth,
\n and every tongue con\u00adfess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
\n to the glo\u00adry of God the Father. (Philip\u00adpi\u00adans 2:5\u201311, NIV)<\/p>\n
\n after 100 A.D., and in the let\u00adter he men\u00adtions the prac\u00adtices of the ear\u00adly Chris\u00adt\u00adian
\n Church: they were accus\u00adtomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and sing
\n respon\u00adsive\u00adly a hymn to Christ as to a god, and to bind them\u00adselves by oath, not
\n to some crime, but not to com\u00admit fraud, theft, or adul\u00adtery, not fal\u00adsi\u00adfy their
\n trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so. When this
\n was over, it was their cus\u00adtom to depart and to assem\u00adble again to par\u00adtake of
\n food\u2013but ordi\u00adnary and inno\u00adcent food.<\/i> (Pliny,
\n Let\u00adters 10.96<\/a>)<\/p>\n