Jesus is God. How do you justify...?

Question

Jesus is God. Yet there are some Christians who deny he is God. Yet the Bible clearly makes it clear that he is God.

Consider the following verses.

Rev. 4:9-11; 5:8,12-14; 7:11-12
Matt. 2:2,11
Matt. 8:2
Matt. 14:33
Matt. 28:9
Matt. 3:16-17; Mark 1:10-11; John 1:32
Matt. 8:26; Mark 4:39; Luke 8:24
Matt. 9:4; 12:25; Luke 6:8; 11:17
Matt. 9:25; Mark 5:24; John 11:44
John 9:38
John 20:28

How do you justify these Bible passages to deny Jesus divinity? Clearly you miss read Scripture because the Bible makes it pretty Clear that Jesus is God. The Word made flesh and dwelt amongst us.

The majority of Christians believe that Jesus is God. There are few minority who do not believe he is. There also Christians who do not believe in the Trinity called Oneness Only...like those Penecostal, and their modalism heresy..

The Bible makes pretty clear Jesus is God. Take a look at these verses:

http://scripturecatholic.com/jesus_christ_divinity.html#jesus-III

It's not taking out of context. There are many heresy like Arianism that Deny Jesus divinity.

The Early Church condemned Arianism in 324 A.D. To deny Jesus is God is to be a heretic.

Answer 1

TeenM makes a good point when he stated the following. However that is not the teaching of the Catholic Church. He is in error when he say that Jesus is not God. The majority of the Christians believed that Jesus is God. Catholics, Orthodox, and the majority of Protestants. There are some who deny the Trinity, and those beliefs are condemned by the early Church so many centuries ago.

The Gospel of John sums it up the best.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light. 9 That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name. 13 Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Scripture tells us as well as Church held a belief that Jesus is God. To deny Jesus is God is heresy.

The Nicene Creed also sum up the Divinity of Jesus Christ.

We believe (I believe) in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages. (God of God) light of light, true God of true God. Begotten not made, consubstantial to the Father, by whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. And was incarnate of the Holy Ghost and of the Virgin Mary and was made man; was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was buried; and the third day rose again according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, and shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, of whose Kingdom there shall be no end. And (I believe) in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father (and the Son), who together with the Father and the Son is to be adored and glorified, who spoke by the Prophets. And one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. We confess (I confess) one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for (I look for) the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen."

Answer 2

The Catholic Church says those scriptures do not teach that Jesus is God.

Please note:

The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.

According to the Apostolic Fathers who wrote those verses did not even remotely believe such a thing.

So If the writers of those verse not believe in a trinity, why should we?

If you honestly look at those verses to "prove the trinity", you will see they are taken out of context.

Answer 3

Listen to this. Some of those minority groups are trying to merge Wiccan with christian to make christian Witches. Wow! And all this time, I thought the christians hate anything that doesn't agree with their beliefs, yet, here are some random teenagers trying to create yet ANOTHER religion.

Therefore, christian Witches will deny jesus as being god and vice versa because they also believe in Belisana and the God and the Goddess and the Triple Goddess....

There you have it.

Answer 4

The Christians who don't believe Jesus is God also don't believe in the authority of the Bible. So quoting scriptures isn't likely to change their minds.

Most people follow their religion (including atheists) out of personal comfort, not because they have any intellectual insight into its truthfulness.

Answer 5

One cannot justify non-believe using the Bible. The divinity of Jesus is faith based, with or without the Bible. There is no actual proof either way. It is a matter of acceptance, not evidence.

Answer 6

It's the same old problem of picking verses out of context and twisting their meaning to suit these people's own beliefs. Anyone who denies the deity of Jesus is NOT a Christian.

Answer 7

Who are you talking about? Almost all Christians believe Jesus as their God.

Answer 8

Just because they wprshipped him does not mean hes God. I hate it when people try and manipulate scripture! God gave him authority to spread the new word and perform miracles as well. ha ha ha!

Answer 9

i love and believ in jesus and i believ in god. just recently i to have been wondering ( is god jesus and is jesus god )

god said in the beginning before jesus birth, ( believe in and trust me in faith ). faith is something you cannot see, you feel it, you love it and you trust it. i think god gave the world the most awesome piece of eye candy anyone could ever produce. he did this for believers & nonbelievers. he manifested himself into a human form just as he himself created us. once in a human form all and the sceptics could see him they still doubted or at this point thought he was from the devils doing.

my point is that seeing in this realm is not true believing. but believing in faith (what you trust & love with your heart ) is true believing.

Answer 10

Look just because we can talk, walk on 2 limbs, invent, build, does not make us smart, humans have been doing that, so what make us think the way we do, one dumb human to another we are not that smart