What are the eternal ramifications of denying the Deity of Jesus Christ? Is Jesus God – Elohim – I AM?
Christian response,
If one professes a New Covenant relationship with the Father by faith in the Son as Messiah yet they don’t see the necessity for Messiah’s deity, this individual is deceived, they are NOT in Covenant, they do not possess the indwelling Holy Spirit and they therefore remain in their sin and remain on the path to destruction in Hell. The indwelling Holy Spirit is the One who teaches the Deity of Messiah and if one denies Messiah’s Deity, they are absent the Spirit who is the Guarantor of Covenant and they are absent life (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 3).
Must one possess knowledge of Messiah’s deity as a precursor to salvation? No, but subsequent entering into New Covenant relationship with the Father by faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, as Messiah and receiving the Holy Spirit as the Guarantor of that Covenant, the one who is truly redeemed will KNOW and CONFESS that Jesus is God, Elohim, I AM and that Jesus could be nothing less than our omnipotent Creator (John 8:24; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1).
Knowledge of, confession of, Jesus as Elohim – God – Creator – Messiah is the critical differentiation between a truly redeemed Christian and every religion, sect, cult, existing in our fallen World today. If you deny the deity of Jesus, you belong to the Devil, not the Father.
