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Jesus Christ - His Deity

Although the denial of the deity of Christ is nothing new, it is true that for decades now, liberal theologians have stepped up this attack on what is the cardinal doctrine of the Faith. To deny the deity of Christ is to deny the Faith, to deny the very essence of Christianity. Nothing else matters much if Christ is not who He claimed to be, whom the writers of Scripture claimed He was, if He is not whom the Bible teaches He is. Christ is Christianity!

If Christ isn’t God then salvation isn’t possible. For how could He have died a substitutionary death to provide salvation for a sinful race? As a mere human, His death would not have satisfied the justice of God, He couldn’t have made propitiation for our sin.

Lets us consider the Scriptural evidence for the deity of Christ. We will briefly discuss a few of the lines of evidence we find in Scripture that clearly teach and affirm the deity of Christ.

His Attributes
Omnipresent – John 1:50; 14:23; Matt. 18:20; 28:20.
Omniscient – John 2:25; 6:64; 10:15; 21:17; Col. 2:3.
Omnipotent – Phil. 3:21; Matt. 28:18; Col. 1:16-17.
Immutable – Heb. 1:12; 13:8.
Eternal – Isa. 9:6; Mic. 5:2; John 1:1-2; 8:58.
Preeminence – Col. 1:18.
Life – John 1:4; 5:26; 10:10; 14:6; Heb. 7:16.
Truth – John 14:6; Rev. 3:7.
Love – John 13:1, 34; 1 John 3:16.
Holiness – Luke 1:35; John 6:69; Heb. 7:26.
Wisdom – Col. 2:3.

His Works
Creator – John 1:3; Col. 1:16.
Preserver – Heb. 1:3; Col. 1:17.
Forgiver of sin – Mark 2:5-7; Luke 5:24.
Miracles – the Gospels.
Judge – Matt. 25:31-46; John 5:22; Acts 17:31; 2 Tim. 4:1.

His Names
God – John 1:1; 20:28; Rom. 9:5; Titus 2:13; Heb. 1:8; 1 John 5:20.
Son of God – Matt. 8:29; 14:33; 16:16, 17; Mark 1:1; 14:61; Luke 1:35; 4:41; John 5:25; 10:36; 11:4).
Lord – Matt. 22:43-45; Luke 2:11Acts 4:33; 9:17; 16:31.
The First and the Last – Rev. 1:17; cf. Isa. 41:4; 44:6; 48:12.
The Alpha and Omega – Rev. 22:13; cf. 1:8.

Other
He received worship – Matt. 28:16-17; Luke 24:52; John 9:38.
He claimed to have power over death and life – John 5:21.
He claimed authority to judge – John 5:22, 27.
He equated Himself with the Father – John 14:1, 7, 9, 11; 5:23; 14:6, 21, 23; 15:23; Mark 9:37.

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