The divinity of Jesus Christ.
This is a great topic, and honestly, without the divinity of Jesus Christ, no one could be saved. That is an amazing statement. If Jesus Christ is not God, then He could not pay for sin. Why? Because the ONLY sacrifice that was acceptable by God to forgive sins was an unblemished, perfect, spotless sacrifice. We both know that there are no perfect people, only God is perfect. This is a good starting point. When you and I are born we are born under Adam, he is called the federal head, this just means that all mankind comes from Adam. When Adam sinned and was kicked out of the garden, he was separated from God and cursed with a sin nature…… this sin nature has been passed down through ALL generations. When a child is born, he is born separated from God and with a sin nature. John the Baptist was the closest someone could come to not having sin nature as he was given the companionship of the Holy Spirit while still in the womb of his mother. So even, John, the Baptist was born with a sin nature. That nature is passed down through Adam or the fathers. This is where we begin our look at Jesus and His divinity. When Jesus was conceived, the Holy Spirit of God overshadowed Mary and she conceived. This means that Jesus had an earthly mother and God as His father……. Did you see it? Jesus does not have an earthly father…. He does not have the sin nature that everyone else has, He did not come from Adam. Now we know and understand why Jesus is perfect in Gods eyes. It is not because He never made a mistake or He never sinned (he didn’t) but when you get down to it, it is because Jesus never had a sin nature. He was the only man ever to walk the earth completely justified in Gods eyes, completely innocent.
A lot of people get confused about the Godhead, or for a more common title, the “trinity”. I am not going to force you into believing what I believe but the scriptures are quite clear. The Father is God, The Son is God, The Holy Spirit is God. These three are on and these three are God. In our human finite minds this can be confusing and any Christian who says that they understand it completely is lying. This is something that we will not know until we are on the other side of eternity. So, Jesus is separate from the Father, the Father is separate from Jesus, and they are both separate from the Holy Spirit, YET THEY ARE ALL ONE. One God. That is the clearest way I can communicate this point. This is what every real Bible believing Christian should believe…. That there is one God.
Christians believe that Jesus Christ has two natures. He is fully man, that is human. He is also fully God. These natures are both intertwined inside of the Lord Jesus Christ. While He is on the earth, He is not more human than God and He is not more God than human.
Why did the savior have to be human?
Well, the Savior had to be human because it was humans who had to pay the debt to God. Humans are the ones who committed sins; they were the ones with the sin nature; therefore, it was the humans who had to be reconciled. For thousands of years, humans sacrificed animals and used their blood to pay the debt. Because the penalty for sin is death the bible says, it also says that there can be no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood. The Savior also had to be God for a few reasons, only God could forgive sins, and the sacrifice had to be a perfect sacrifice. Because Christ did not have that sin nature, He could be that perfect sacrifice. Now you have the perfect sacrifice, you have a human to pay the debt and God who is perfect, all in one vessel.
Now, how can I show you that Jesus Christ is who He says He is, God the Son? If there was any part of the Bible that I could tell you to read to teach you about the divinity of Jesus it would be the Gospel of John, the beloved. Johns’ gospel is completely centered and focused on the deity of Christ, While Matthew is about Christ the King, Mark is about Christ the servant, Luke is about Christ the man, and John is about Christ the God. The last book in the Bible Revelation starts by saying “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” So we know that what the book of Revelation is about is about Jesus Christ…… down in verse 8 of Revelation we see Jesus talking to John and what does He say? “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come. The ALMIGHTY.” Wow!!!! I mean you can’t get any clearer than that right? He straight up said I am almighty GOD!! And if that is not enough, He says it again in verse 17 when John looks upon Him and falls on his face as dead. Jesus says: Fear not; I AM the first and the last, I AM He that liveth, and was dead, and behold, I AM alive evermore.” Who was it that was alive and then dead and then alive? THAT WAS JESUS!!! Jesus is the first and the last! You can say, wait a minute, this is the very last book in the Bible. Ok. Remember Christians consider EVERY word of the Bible to be the Word of God. But lets just look elsewhere to see if we see anything like what we are seeing in Revelation. Is there anywhere else that is saying that Jesus is in fact God Almighty?
Let’s start in the Gospel of John. John Chapter 1 Verses 1-3 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and with out Him was NOT anything made that was made.” WoW! That is a lot to take in, but we saw something similar right? In the beginning…. didn’t Jesus say that He was the beginning? Yes, He did. But let us move past that. What we read in these first verse is that the Word of God was in the beginning with God and that the Word of God is God. Remember what I said earlier, the complete understanding of why God has chosen this way to reveal himself to humans will not be known until we are with Him…… So, the Word of God is God. Ok. Who is the Word of God? Let’s keep reading in John chapter 1, down in verse 14 we see something interesting that might help us out. It says: “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. So, now we know that the Word is God and that the Word became flesh……. We also know that the Word made ALL THINGS. God is the creator…. so, the Word is God. Wouldn’t it be nice if the Bible just spoke plainly about who the Word is? Let’s jump back to Revelation and see if we can see who this Word is…… In chapter 19 verse 11-21 we see the second coming of Christ in detail…… It is an AMAZING visual. But we something interesting in verse 13…. when the rider of the white horse is being described (this is Jesus riding this horse) Verse 13 says this: “And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called THE WORD OF GOD” AMAZING! There we have it. The word of God is God, He created all things, and he is Jesus.
These might be hard for you to grasp ahold of right away because I have absolutely no idea on what this guy before me taught you. So, I don’t really know where to start. That is why I decided to go to a few places in the Bible that normally people wouldn’t go to prove the divinity of Jesus. If you have any questions on what I have written, you contact me or if you want to correct me. I’m just trying to write ✍️ something. b
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