Strange as it may seem, there are some Christians who do not believe that Jesus Christ is God.  Sure, they believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, but they believe that only God the Father has the title of God.  Is this view correct.  The answer is no.  There are many Scriptures which show that Jesus is God.  This article will cover:

• A) Ten Direct statements showing Jesus is God
• B) Ten Indirect statements showing Jesus is God
• C) Ten Scriptures where Christ is referred to as YHVH
• D) Three Scriptures which mention Two YHVHs
• E) Seven “Difficult” Scriptures

There are of course more than these numbers mentioned above, but that’s just what will be covered.

A) Ten Direct statements showing Jesus is God

A.1) Isaiah refers to the Son as Mighty God.

Isa 9:6  For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder.

This is clearly referring to Jesus Christ.

And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace

Jesus Christ is referred to as Mighty God.

A.2) Matthew refers to Jesus as God with us.

Mat 1:23  “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

One of the names of Jesus Christ is “God with us”.  So clearly, Jesus Christ is God.

A.3) Paul describes Jesus Christ as the eternally blessed God.

Rom 9:5  of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.

Jesus Christ is referred to as God.

A.4) Paul describes Jesus Christ as God manifested in the flesh.

1 Tim 3:16  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.

Jesus Christ is referred to as God.

A.5) John states that the Word is God.

It is clear from John 1:14 that the Word is Jesus.

Joh 1:14  And the Word became 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.

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word [Jesus Christ verse 14], and the Word was with [to] God, and the Word was God. 

Some people like to make a big deal about the phrase “the Word was with God”.   The Greek word translated “with” means “to”.  All the translations I know of translate this phrase as “the Word was with God”.  Why?  In English we say a husband is married to his wife, meaning that he is with his wife.  It’s the same with the Greek in this phrase.

Joh 1:2  He was in the beginning with God. 
Joh 1:3  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

Greek for “through” is dia.  It does not mean for, but through.

The phrase “without Him nothing was made that was made” shows that the Word was not created.  It’s saying that everything that was made was made through Him.  Clearly the Word cannot have been created otherwise He would have to have created Himself, which is clearly impossible.  These verses in John 1 show that Jesus Christ is God.

A.6) Thomas calls Jesus God.

Joh 20:28  And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

Jesus Christ is referred to as God.

A.7) Paul refers to Christ as God.

Titus 2:13  looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

Jesus Christ is referred to as God.

A.8) Jesus Christ is the Exact Image of God’s Person.

Heb 1:3  who [Jesus Christ] being the brightness of His [God’s] glory and the express [exact] image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

If Christ is an express (exact) image of God, then He can be none other than God.

A.9) The Fullness of the Godhead Dwells in Christ.

Col 2:9  For in Him [Christ] dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

Obviously, if all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Christ then he must be God.

A.10) The Father calls the Son God.

Heb 1:8  But to the Son He [the Father] says: “Your throne, O God, [so the Son is God] is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your Kingdom. 
Heb 1:9  You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, [there are two Gods] has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”

Jesus Christ is referred to as God.

B) Ten Indirect statements showing Jesus is God

B.1) Christ is referred to as God in the Old Testament.

Moses and seventy of the elders saw God – the God of the Old Testament.

Exo 24:9  Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, 
Exo 24:10  and they saw the God of Israel.

Who did they see?  The Father?  No.  It cannot have been the Father because no one has seen the Father.

John 1:18  No one has seen God [the Father] at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

If they didn’t see the Father then the only other possibility is that they saw Jesus Christ, who is referred to as God.

B.2) Christ is identified as Existing from Everlasting

The gospel of Matthew quotes Micah 5:2 when telling the account of Herod being troubled by news of Jesus’ birth.

Mat 2:4  And when he [Herod] had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
Mat 2:5  So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet:
Mat 2:6  ‘BUT YOU, BETHLEHEM, IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, ARE NOT THE LEAST AMONG THE RULERS OF JUDAH; FOR OUT OF YOU SHALL COME A RULER WHO WILL SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.’ “

The quote from Micah is clearly identified with Christ.  When we read the quote in Micah we see additional information.

Micah 5:2  “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.”

Micah 5:2 describes Jesus Christ as having gone forth from of old, from everlasting. So, Jesus Christ has always existed.  Thus, Jesus Christ was not created and He is God.

B.3) Jesus was worshipped

At least eight places in the Gospels describe people worshipping Jesus.  Only God can be worshipped.  To worship someone or something that is not God is to commit idolatry. 

John 9 gives the account of the man Jesus healed who was blind from birth.  After he was healed, he had a conversation with Jesus in which he said:

Joh 9:38  Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshiped Him.

Another example is Heb 1:6.

Heb 1:6  But when He again brings the firstborn [Jesus Christ] into the world, He says: “Let all the angels of God worship Him.”

And yet another is Rev 5:14.  This is referring to the Lamb of God.

Rev 5:14  Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.

Jesus accepts worship from men, angels and the twenty-four elders in heaven.  He did not rebuke those who knelt before Him and worshiped Him.  In contrast righteous beings refuse to be worshiped:

Rev 22:8  Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.
Rev 22:9  Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”

The fact that Jesus accepts worship proves that He is God.

B.4) Every Knee Shall Bow

Every knee will bow at the name of Jesus. 

Phil 2:9  Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,
Phil 2:10  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,

Clearly bowing the knee is an act of worship of Jesus.  Only God can be worshipped, again Jesus is God.

B.5) The same Honour

Jesus said that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father.

Joh 5:22  “For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, 
Joh 5:23  “that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father.

To give as much honor to the Son as you give to the Father shows they are equal and thus Jesus is God.

B.6) The same Glory

God does not give His glory to another.

Isa 42:8  I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images.

Christ asked the Father to glorify Him with the Father, with the glory He had with the Father before the creation.

Joh 17:5  “And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

So firstly Christ existed before the world was created, and secondly He had divine glory.  But we just read that God does not give His glory to another.  So, Jesus must be God as well as the Father.

B.7) The authority to forgive sins

Who but God has the power and authority to forgive sins?  The LORD is pictured in the Old Testament as the one who forgives sin.

Jer 31:34  “No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

But Jesus said He had power to forgive sins.

Mat 9:6  “But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins“; then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”

The fact that Jesus had power to forgive sins proves that He is God.

B.8) Prayers to Jesus

Stephen Prayed to Jesus. 

Acts 7:59  And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 
Acts 7:60  Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Paul pleaded with the Lord (Jesus). 

2 Cor 12:8  Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 

The fact that Stephen and Paul both prayed to Jesus proves that He is God, because praying to a being who is not God is idolatry.

B.9) Jesus claimed equality with God

On numerous occasions Jesus claimed equality with God.  If Jesus is equal with God, then He is God.

Joh 5:18  Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

Another example is found in John 8.

Joh 8:58  Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
Joh 8:59  Then they took up stones to throw at Him; …

Why did they take up stones to kill Jesus?  Jesus claimed that it was He who appeared to Moses as “I AM”. 

Exo 3:14  And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.'”

“I AM” is the name of God; the name of the divine being who talked to Moses and who was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Jesus claimed to be the “I AM”.  Thus, He claimed to be God.

Another example is found in John 10.

Joh 10:30  I and My Father are one.”

This is of course a claim of divinity.  And this is how the Jews understood it because the next verse says:

Joh 10:31  Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

Why?

Joh 10:33  …for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”

Jesus claimed equality with God and thus is God.

B.10) God refers to Himself in plural terms

God refers to Himself in plural terms in several places.

Gen 1:26  Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;

Gen 3:22  Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil.

Gen 11:7  “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Isa 6:8  Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

There is clearly more than one God being.  There is only one candidate for a second God being, and that is Jesus Christ or the Word.  Thus, Jesus Christ is God.

C) Ten passages of Scripture where Christ is referred to as YHVH

YHVH is a title of God.  It only ever refers to God.  It means the self-existent one or eternal.  So, if Jesus Christ is referred to as YHVH then Jesus Christ is God.

C.1) The one “whom they pierced”, that is Christ, is referred to as YHVH

Zec 12:4  “In that day,” says the LORD [YHVH], “I will strike every horse with confusion, …
Zec 12:10  “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced.

We see in this passage that Christ is referred to as YHVH, and thus is God.

C.2) The Way was prepared for YHVH and it was prepared for Christ. 

Isaiah says prepare the way of YHVH, make a highway for God.

Isa 40:3  The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the LORD [YHVH]; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God [Elohim].

Matthew identifies the LORD with Jesus Christ

Mat 3:1  In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 
Mat 3:2  and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” 
Mat 3:3  For this is he [Jesus Christ] who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight.'”

From these two Scriptures we see YHVH is identified as Jesus Christ, and thus is God.

C.3) “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense” is both YHVH and Jesus Christ

Isa 8:13  The LORD [YHVH] of hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let Him be your dread. 
Isa 8:14  He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense To both the houses of Israel, As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Here in Isaiah, “A stone of stumbling And a rock of offense” is identified as YHVH.  Peter in quoting Isaiah, identifies YHVH with Jesus.

1 Pet 2:7  Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone,”

This is clearly referring to Jesus Christ.

1 Pet 2:8  and “A stone of stumbling And a rock of offense.” …

From these two Scriptures we see YHVH is identified as Jesus Christ, and thus is God.

C.4) Peter in quoting King David, identifies YHVH with Jesus.

Psalm 16 is a Psalm of king David

Psa 16:8  I have set the LORD [YHVH] always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.

Peter quotes this Psalm and says that David is talking of Jesus Christ.

Acts 2:25  “For David says concerning Him [Jesus Christ]: ‘I foresaw the LORD always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.

From these two Scriptures we see YHVH is identified as Jesus Christ, and thus is God.

C.5) The Judge of all Men and Nations is YHVH and Jesus Christ

Joel 3:11  Assemble and come, all you nations, And gather together all around. Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O LORD [YHVH].
Joel 3:12  “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

YHVH will sit to judge all nations.

Joh 5:22  “For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,

Rev 19:15  Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron.

Here we see that Jesus Christ will judge all nations. 

From these two Scriptures we see YHVH is identified as Jesus Christ, and thus is God.

C.6) The one coming with His reward is the Lord God [Adonay YHVH] and Jesus Christ.

Isaiah states that the one who is coming is Lord God [Adonay YHVH].

Isa 40:10  Behold, the Lord GOD [Adonay YHVH] shall come with a strong hand, And His arm shall rule for Him; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him. 

Revelation declares that the one who is coming with His reward, is Jesus Christ.

Rev 22:12  “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.

From these two Scriptures we see YHVH is identified as Jesus Christ, and thus is God.

C.7) Moses saw and spoke to YHVH

Moses saw and spoke to the LORD, YHVH. 

Exo 33:11  So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.

Exo 33:21  And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.
Exo 33:22  So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.
Exo 33:23  Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”

Who did Moses see?  The Father?  No.  It cannot have been the Father because no one has seen the Father.

Joh 1:18  No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

If he didn’t see the Father then the only other possibility is that he saw Jesus Christ, who is referred to here as YHVH.

From these Scriptures we see YHVH is identified as Jesus Christ, and thus is God.

C.8) The fountain of life is YHVH and Jesus Christ

The fountain of living waters is identified as YHVH in Jeremiah.

Jer 2:12  Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be very desolate,” says the LORD.
Jer 2:13  “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Jesus identified Himself as the fountain of living waters

Joh 4:13  Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 
Joh 4:14  “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

From these two Scriptures we see YHVH is identified as Jesus Christ, and thus is God.

C.9) The good shepherd is YHVH and Jesus Christ

The shepherd is YHVH.

Psa 23:1  The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Jesus claimed to be the good shepherd. 

Joh 10:11  “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

From these two Scriptures we see YHVH is identified as Jesus Christ, and thus is God.

C.10) The first and the last is YHVH and Jesus Christ

“The first and the last” is identified as YHVH.

Isa 41:4  Who has performed and done it, Calling the generations from the beginning? ‘I, the LORD, am the first; And with the last I am He.'”

But the “the first and the last” is none other than Jesus Christ.

Rev 2:8  “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, ‘These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life:

From these two Scriptures we see YHVH is identified as Jesus Christ, and thus is God.

D) Three passages of Scripture which mention Two YHVHs

In several places in the Bible two LORDs (YHVHs) are mentioned.  This means one is God (the Father) and the other The Word (Jesus Christ).  So, both are called YHVH; both are God.

D.1) Two YHVHs rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah

Gen 19:24  Then the LORD [YHVH] rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD [YHVH] out of the heavens.

YHVH rained brimstone and fire from YHVH.  So there are two YHVHs

D.2) Two YHVHs in Zechariah

In Zech 2:8-9 YHVH was sent by YHVH.

Zec 2:8  For thus says the LORD [YHVH] of hosts: “He sent Me …

YHVH is speaking, so when He says, “He sent Me”, the “me” is YHVH.  So YHVH was sent.  And who could ever send YHVH?  Only God?  So, the “He” is God.  This is confirmed in the next verse.

… He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.
Zec 2:9  “For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the LORD [YHVH] of hosts has sent Me.

The being doing the sending was YHVH.  And the being that was sent was YHVH.  Thus, there are two YHVHs, and thus two God beings.

D.3) Two YHVHs of Psalm 110

Psa 110:1  The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

In Psalm 110, king David says that the LORD (YHVH) spoke to his Lord (Adonay).  It’s true that the first LORD is YHVH and the second is Adonay.  However, David had no earthly Lord, so when David says “my Lord” or “my Adonay” he is obviously referring to God.  So, he is saying, “the LORD said to my God”, hence there are two God beings.

Furthermore, when quoting Psalm 110:1 in Greek, Matthew, Mark and Luke all make no distinction, translating both “Lords” as kurios in Greek.  That is to say, the disciples made no distinction between YHVH and Adonay when quoting Ps 110:1 in Greek.  They treated YHVH and Adonay as the same.

Mat 22:44  ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”‘?

However, in this short Psalm there is additional proof that there are two YHVHs.

One of the Appendices in Bullinger’s companion Bible lists 135 or so instances in the Hebrew text where the Scribes changed the Hebrew word YHVH to Adonay.  But when they changed the text, they made a note in the margin that they had changed it.  One of those places the Scribes changed YHVH to Adonay is Psalm 110:5.

Psa 110:5  The Lord is at Your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.

The “Lord” here in verse 5 is actually YHVH.  Why is this significant?  Well, according to verse 1, YHVH said to Adonay, “Sit at my right hand”.  In other words, Adonay is at the right hand of YHVH.  But verse 5 says, “YHVH is at your right hand.  In other words, YHVH is at the right hand of YHVH.  Thus, there are two YHVHs.

Explanation of God as God-kind

The natural question is: if there is only one God how can Jesus be God as well as the Father?  The simple answer is that there is only one God-kind.  Just as the word “man” can refer to either one man or mankind, so the word “God” can refer to either one God being or God-kind;  and just as there is only one mankind but more than one man, so there is only one God-kind but more than one God being: the Father and the Son.  That is, the term “God” is like a family name such as Smith or Jones.  This is what John explained in John 1:1.  He wrote, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  So Jesus was both with God and God.  We could say something similar of a man John Smith and his father.  John was both with Smith (his father) and was Smith.

E) Seven “Difficult” Scriptures

E.1) The LORD is God and there is None Other

There are a number of scriptures which state the LORD is God and that there is None Other.

For example:

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!

Isa 45:5  I am the LORD, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me.

There are many others like this.  Some people want to read the text as meaning that there is only one divine being.  But that clearly contradicts all the other Scriptures which show that there are two YHVHs, two divine beings. 

So what does the Scripture mean when it states “I am the LORD, and there is no other”?  It means that there are no other Gods or God-kinds.  There are no baals or dagons or any other make-believe pagan deities. 

E.2) There is One God the Father

There are a couple of Scriptures which state that there is One God the Father.

1 Cor 8:6  yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

This Scripture states that there is one God the Father and one Lord Jesus Christ.  Does this Scripture state that Jesus is not God?  No.  From all the other Scriptures we’ve covered we know that Jesus is God.  Another Scripture is Eph 4:6.

Eph 4:6  one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Does this Scripture state that Jesus is not God?  No.  This Scripture states there is one God and Father of all, who is above all.  This is consistent with what Christ said when He stated that the Father was greater than He was. 

E.3) The Father alone has Immortality

There is one Scripture which some think states that the Father alone has Immortality. 

1Ti 6:13  I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
1Ti 6:14  that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing,
1Ti 6:15  which He will manifest in His own time,

Is the “He” Jesus Christ or the Father? It’s not clear.

He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

King of kings and Lord of Lords is a title of Jesus Christ, Rev 17:14, Rev 19:16.  So is this referring to Jesus Christ or is this a title the Father has as well?

1Ti 6:16  who alone has immortality,

Is this referring to Jesus Christ or the Father? It’s not clear.

dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see,

This is clearly referring to the Father.

to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

How do we understand this text?  There are two possible ways. 

1. The first is that “who alone has immortality” refers to both Jesus Christ and the Father. 
2. The second is that “who alone has immortality” refers to God the Father only.  The Greek word translated “immortality” literally means “deathlessness”, that is without death, or having the attribute of never having died.  Does that attribute apply to Jesus Christ?  No.  Jesus Christ ceased to exist for three days and nights.  Only the Father has never ceased to exist. 

E.4) The Father was the God of the Old Testament

There are a couple of Scriptures which state that the Father was the God of the Old Testament.

Acts 3:13  “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, …

Acts 5:30  “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.

These two verses clearly state that the being who raised Jesus (who is of course The Father) was the God of our fathers.  This has to be understood in the context of other Scriptures which clearly show that Jesus Christ was the divine being who dealt with their fathers.  For example:

1Co 10:1  Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea,
1Co 10:4  and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

How do we explain this?  Clearly, the fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were aware of two divine beings, and they worshipped both of them.

E.5) The Father is the Only God

There are a couple of times in the book of John where Jesus Christ refers to His Father as the only true God.

Joh 17:3  “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Joh 5:44  “How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?

How do we understand this?  Firstly, do these verses say that Jesus is not God?  No.  These two verses in John have to be taken in the context of all the rest of Scripture.  How do we understand this?  It is clear from Scripture that there is only one true God, but two divine beings.  The Father is the only true God, and the Son is the only true God also.  They are both the only true God or the only true God-kind.

E.6) Christ is the Firstborn

In Col 1:15 we find the phrase “firstborn over all creation mean”?  Some understand this to mean that Christ was the first being to be created.  But does the Scripture really say this?

Col 1:15  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

“Firstborn” is translated from the Greek word, protokotos, which means firstborn.  A few verses later in verse 18, Paul clearly explains what he means by the term firstborn. 

Col 1:18  And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

Paul clearly states that firstborn means that Christ was the firstborn from the dead.  It has nothing to do with being created.

E.7) Christ is the Beginning of Creation

In Rev 3:14 we read that Jesus Christ is the beginning of the creation? 

Rev 3:14  “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, ‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:

Some understand this to mean that Christ was the first being to be created.  But does the Scripture really say this?  “Beginning” is translated from the Greek word, arche, which means commencement or chief.  In fact, some translations have, “the chief of creation”.  Jesus Christ is “commencement of creation in that he is the origin of the creation, since He created all things.  And Jesus Christ is also the “chief” of creation since He created all things.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we have seen that there are many Scriptures that show that Jesus is God.  We have also seen some of the difficult Scriptures that some use to refute Christ’s deity.  However, they all have simple explanations.  The Scriptures are very clear.  Jesus Christ is God.