Of course, Jesus is not the only one who attests to His divinity. All of the Scriptures attest to it. In fact, the Hebrew prophets expected the Messiah to be God. Isaiah 9:6 says:
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."
Isaiah 7:14 is as follows:
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel, God with us.
In fact, the Hebrew prophets expected the Lord their God to walk the earth:
For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth" (Micah 1:3).For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth" (Job 19:25).
Is Job's redeemer God? The answer is in Isaiah 44:6:
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: 'I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god."
In Revelation 1:17,18 we read:
I am the first and the last, and the living one; I died, and behold I am alive for evermore.The speaker indicates that he is Jesus by saying that he died, and behold is alive forevermore. At the same time, He claims to be "the first and the last," indicating that he is God, for the speaker was not ignorant of Isaiah 44:6 quoted above, nor was He ignorant of similar verses, including Isaiah 41:4 and 48:12. The speaker emphasizes this identity by reiterating his assertion in Revelation 2:8, which says, "The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life." Also see Revelation 1:8, 22:13, and 21:6.
That Jesus is God may also be realized when one remembers that one must worship God alone, yet at the same time we are to worship Jesus. Revelation 22:8,9 says:
I John am he who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me; but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brethren the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."Yet Jesus did not, in the same way, prevent people from worshipping Him:
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw Him they worshipped Him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." (Matthew 28:16,17,18).
See also Luke 5:8, Luke 17:15,16, John 9:38, and Matthew 14:33, which are four other cases in which people worshipped Jesus. Yet in none of these is there any record that Jesus prevented this. We are supposed to worship Jesus. See Philippians 2:9-11, Hebrews 1:6, Revelation 5:12-14 and Revelation 22:3.
When Thomas worshipped Jesus he called Him God, yet Jesus did not contradict Him:
Thomas answered Him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to Him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." (John 20:28,29).Here, Jesus encouraged Thomas to worship Him and call Him God. It was Jesus who had said:
You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve (Luke 4:8).Certainly, if Jesus were not God, he would have done as Peter did in Acts 10:25,26:
When Peter entered, Cornelius met Him and fell down at his feet and worshipped Him. but Peter lifted Him up, saying, "Stand up; I too am a man!"Another indication that Jesus is God is that the world was created through Jesus:
For in Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities--all things were created through Him and for Him (Colossians 1:16).See also Hebrews 1:2, Hebrews 11:3, I Corinthians 8:6, Proverbs 8:29,30, John 1:3,10, and II Peter 3:5 (Compared to John 1:1,14).
Many verses in the New Testament assert the divinity of Christ:
For in Him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily (Colossians 2:9).Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men (Philippians 2:5-7).
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1,14).
I and the Father are one (John 10:30).
He who has seen me has seen the Father (John 14:9).
But of the Son he says, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever" (Hebrews 1:8).
And killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses (Acts 3:15).
Why does this man speak thus? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone? (Mark 2:7).
Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and "God visited His people!" (Luke 7:16).
And all were astonished at the majesty of God (Luke 9:43).
Awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13).
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ (II Peter 1:1).
According to I John 1:5, "God is light and in Him is no darkness at all." Yet, "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." (John 1:4,5).
Peter, in his epistles, makes no distinction between the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ:
They inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory (I Peter 1:11); No prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God (II Peter 1:21).Consider the following two verses:
Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you (I Thessalonians 3:11); Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word (II Thessalonians 2:16,17).
The verbs which are underlined, direct and comfort, are in the third person singular in the original Greek text. This establishes an identity between "our God and Father Himself" and "our Lord Jesus" in I Thessalonians 3:11, as well as an identity between "our Lord Jesus Christ Himself" and "God our Father" in II Thessalonians 2:16,17. Had this identity not existed, it would have been necessary to use the third person plural in both cases.
At one point, Jesus asserted His divinity by reference to his being good in a perfect sense:
And Jesus said to Him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone" (Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19).The people were then left with either denying that he was good, which they could not do, or assenting to his divinity.
Jesus said many things that indicated his divinity, and the people realized that he was making this claim. This is why they accused Him of blasphemy for saying these things. See Mark 14:60-64, Mark 2:7, Luke 5:20-22, John 10:33, and John 5:18, which says:
This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God his Father, making Himself equal with god.That Jesus and God are equal does not contradict that Jesus was a man. He was both.
