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Did Jesus claim to be Deity?

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Response to one who denies Jesus’ Deity,

Your spiritual misunderstanding is mind boggling considering that your rejection of Jesus as God, Deity, proclaims your status as unredeemed, remaining in your sin (John 8:24).

I don’t suggest that understanding the necessity for Messiah’s deity is an element of salvation but I will profess that once one is redeemed by faith in Jesus and has received the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor and the Seal of New Covenant promise (Ephesians 1:13-14), they will KNOW and they will openly confess that Jesus is God/Elohim who is Creator, Warrior, Messiah and Judge; this, because the Spirit of Truth (John 16:13-15) testifies of Jesus’ Deity and the necessity for same.

“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am “He,” you will die in your sins.” John 8:24 (NASB)

In John 8:24, the word “he” is added by translators. While English Bibles (like the NIV or KJV) use “I am he,” the original Greek simply says “I am” (egō eimi). This directly mirrors the divine name used in the Old Testament (Exodus 3:14), with Jesus claiming equality with God.

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” John 8:58 (NASB)

Again: the original Greek says “I am” (egō eimi). This directly mirrors the divine name used in the Old Testament (Exodus 3:14), with Jesus claiming equality with God.

The Jewish audience and their religious leadership clearly understood Jesus’ proclamation of Deity and sought to murder Jesus by stoning; ultimately, charging Jesus with “blasphemy” and handing Him over to Pilate, Herod, for execution.

Your initial error is failing to understand the context upon which Hebrews 1, John 1, Colossians 1, are based; that is, Jesus in His hypostatic union as fully man and fully Elohim. Jesus has enjoyed coequal glory and omnipotence and omnipresence with the Father and the Spirit from Eternity past; this, before the World was created (John 17:5). When the Father speaks of the Son as the “firstborn” and “begotten” and having been “appointed” and “sit at my right hand”…the Father is speaking of the unique position of the eternal God-Man, Jesus our Messiah, unique to all of Eternity and Jesus will continue in this unique positioning as the “firstfruits” of those resurrected from the dead with a glorified body…the same type of body the saints in Jesus will receive at the resurrection of the righteous.

The Father is speaking in terms of a resurrected Messiah who had previously set aside many of His deific attributes in order to take on flesh, subject Himself to the constraints of Time and physics and rely solely upon the Holy Spirit for power and miracles and conquering Satan at Golgotha (Luke 4:1; 1 John 3:8). It is this same Jesus that the Father is glorifying for OUR benefit demonstrating the power of obedience and honor and dignity displayed by the Son who will reign King forevermore. King in the Millennial Kingdom and the Eternal Kingdom, the New Jerusalem.

You assume that the Father’s delineation of authority somehow suggests Jesus is a lesser being than the Father but this is not true or accurate. Jesus has never been a lesser Deity than the Father as Jesus is the same yesterday, today, forever (Hebrews 13:8).
I’m not sure what cult or sect you’ve involved yourself in, perhaps the cult of the Jehovah’s Witness, but you are far from the Kingdom. You might have a nice little religion but you and yours don’t know Jesus.

The Deity of Messiah Jesus and your eternal destiny…

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The Deity of Messiah Jesus and your eternal destiny…

The Holy Spirit, who Authored the Scriptures as presented in the Canon, could not have been more clear concerning the deity of Messiah Jesus (John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1); those who deny Messiah’s deity are absent the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, those who are absent the indwelling Spirit are not redeemed by faith and therefore remain in their sin (John 3:5; John 8:24).

I will acknowledge, without apprehension, that understanding or acknowledging the deity of Jesus is NOT a prerequisite to entering into a New Covenant relationship with Elohim and subsequently receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant promise (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14), but I do fully acknowledge that anyone who is born again by faith in Jesus as Messiah and has received the indwelling Spirit of Truth WILL KNOW and openly acknowledge that Jesus IS God, Elohim (Genesis 1:1), having manifest in flesh for the purposes of redemption-salvation from sin and the destruction of Satan’s works at Golgotha (John 1; Colossians 1; Hebrews 1; 1 John 3:8b); after all, it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who teaches this theological truism.

*The one primary differentiating theological Truth between the Christian and every cult and religion of the World is the knowledge that Jesus is Elohim, our Creator – eternally “I AM” and the confession of same publicly without apprehension (Matthew 16:13-20). If you do not know Jesus as Elohim, you do not know the Father or the Holy Spirit (1 John 2:23) and you therefore remain in your sin (John 8:24).

The unbelieving Jews during Jesus’ Earthly ministry knew the eternal import of the deific title “God’s Son” and “I AM” and sought to murder Jesus for blasphemy (John 8). This same mindset is prevalent today in a society inundated by “antichrists” seeking death in Hell via a false messiah they’ve created in their own image or an image of their own choosing (1 John 2:2). If you deny Jesus’ deity you are NOT a Christian; you might have a nice religion or religious cult but you are NOT a “born again” member of Elohim’s family…you do NOT know Messiah Jesus!