It is sometimes alleged that the Bible doesn\u2019t really claim that Jesus is God. This is a list of passages that establish the doctrine. This list isn\u2019t written to persuade nonbelievers that Jesus is in fact God, but to persuade everyone that the Bible indeed claims that He is.<\/i><\/p>\n
Passages That Explicitly Assert Jesus Divinity<\/b><\/p>\n \nJesus Is Described As Though He Were God<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Best Summary Passage: Philippians 2<\/b> Extrabiblical Confirmation <\/b><\/p>\n I dont guess this really matters, since this is about whether the Bible teaches that Jesus is God or not, but I personally find it extremely interesting.<\/i><\/p>\n Pliny the Younger (a Roman governor) wrote a letter to the Emperor Trajan shortly This is very early extrabiblical documentation that the early Christians worshiped Jesus as God. In other words, this is independent testimony that the Christian belief in the deity of Christ was one of the earliest tenets of faith, not some late add-on as is sometimes alleged.<\/p>\n Murray J. Harris\u2019 masterful book Jesus As God was an invaluable resource in compiling this data\u2013most of it is directly lifted from Appendix 2 of his work.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is sometimes alleged that the Bible doesn\u2019t really claim that Jesus is God. This is a list of passages that establish the doctrine. This list isn\u2019t written to persuade nonbelievers that Jesus is in fact God, but to persuade everyone that the Bible indeed claims that He is. Passages That Explicitly Assert Jesus Divinity In \u2026 Continue reading \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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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 doubting 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 overseers. Be shepherds 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> forever praised! Amen. (Romans
\n 9:5, NIV)<\/li>\n
\n God and Savior, Jesus Christ,<\/strong> who gave himself for us to redeem us
\n from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people 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 precious as ours (2 Peter 1:1, NIV)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nPassages That Implicitly Assume Jesus Divinity<\/b>
\nOld Testament Passages That Describe Yahweh Are Applied to Jesus<\/p>\n\n
\n quotation of Psalm 101:27\u201328 in the Septuagint translation)<\/li>\n
\n passages describe what Yahweh and Jesus look like in visions).<\/li>\n\n
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\n Corinthians 13:14; Revelation 22:13 cf. Revelation 21:6)<\/li>\n\n
\nYour attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
\n Who, being in very nature God,
\n did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
\n but made himself nothing,
\n taking the very nature of a servant,
\n being made in human likeness.
\n And being found in appearance as a man,
\n he humbled himself
\n and became obedient to death\u2013
\n even death on a cross!
\n Therefore God exalted him to the highest 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 heaven and on earth and under the earth,
\n and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
\n to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5\u201311, NIV)<\/p>\n
\n after 100 A.D., and in the letter he mentions the practices of the early Christian
\n Church: they were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and sing
\n responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god, and to bind themselves by oath, not
\n to some crime, but not to commit fraud, theft, or adultery, not falsify their
\n trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so. When this
\n was over, it was their custom to depart and to assemble again to partake of
\n food\u2013but ordinary and innocent food.<\/i> (Pliny,
\n Letters 10.96<\/a>)<\/p>\n