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 Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject: The Divinity of Jesus Christ |
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The Divinity of Jesus Christ
Some quasi-Christian sects today deny the divinity of Christ, contrary to the witness of the Church for nearly two thousand years. The divinity of Christ is unequivocally taught in Scripture and in Tradition, from before the birth of Christ, going back to the proto-evangelium in Genesis 3:15. The divinity of Christ is affirmed consistently:
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called ‘Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace’" (Is. 9:6).
"Simon Peter replied, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ And Jesus answered him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.’" (Matt. 16:16-17)
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)
"Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am" (John 8:58). In a very clear way here, Jesus is identifying Himself as God, by referring to the name that God identified himself to Moses, “I Am Who I Am”, which the Jews would immediately recognize as an affirmation of Jesus’ divine nature.
"I and the Father are one." (John 10:30)
"For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily." (Col. 2:9) In the physical body of Jesus lives not part of God, but God in His fullness in ways both wonderful and mysterious.
"In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power . . ." (Heb. 1:1-3)
"But of the Son he says, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, the righteous scepter is the scepter of thy kingdom. . . . And, "Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands." (Heb. 1:8, 10)
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