If Jesus Christ is God...?

Question

...who is the God and Father of Jesus? (Col. 1:3)

Answer 1

Jesus is God's son...his Father 'is' in heaven when Jesus was on earth. Remember Jesus was praying to him and God spoke during Jesus' baptism saying “This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved; listen to him.” (MAtthew 17:5)

Many bible translations removed the personal name of God but others have retained it, sometimes as Yahweh or Jehovah.

Exodus 3:15 is the most common verse for bible translations were you can find the name. If not, there will be footnotes that explain God's personal name.

Proverbs 8:22-31 speaks of what father-son relationship Jehovah and Jesus have.

Answer 2

Here's a good way to put it together.
Genesis ch 1 "..and God said ,Let Us create man in Our image".
That is the Triune God speaking ,Father,Son, and Holy Spirit.Like the equation 1x1x1=1 God is three whos and one what.Compare John 1 where he writes"In the begining was the Word(Jesus),and the Word was with God,and the Word WAS God..Then Collosians 1 "All things were created by God ,through Jesus.."
So, you see He was there at creation as Genesis 1 states.He only became Jesus when He took on human flesh.Before that,He was God the 2nd person of the trinity.He was the one who appeared in the Old Testament as "The Angel of the Lord"as He did to Abraham,Jacob,Gideon Samson's parents etc.
They knew it was more than a regular Angel .Both Jacob and Samson's parents stated"We have seen God and yet we live".

Answer 3

He is God the Father and the Son of God. God is 3 - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That is why when we are baptized we are baptized into the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. John 1:1- says God became flesh, Jesus Christ to suffer on the cross and rise again 3 days later, in order that those who believe would be saved and justified through His blood. Read John 10 too for better understanding of Jesus and God being one.

Answer 4

The bible calls both Jesus and the Devil as a God.
2Cor. 4:4 – “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers”
notice the little g in god means in subjection to God.

Jesus is the creative part of God he is the creator or earth and man know as the word of God from the begining. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, And with out Him nothing was made that was made. In these there simple scripture God declares all the teaching of the Jehovah witnessed wrong and in error.
These scriptures are 2000 years old and confirm that Christ is the creator of all things, that he is no angle buy God himself, That
he is God.

Creator = Yahweh in Hebrew, Iehova/Jehovah in English
Creator’s Son = Yeshua in Hebrew, Jesus in English
God has name titles and these are only some of the many.
but salvation comes thur the name of the Son.

Before anything existed, our planet earth, our universe, even the sprit world called the heavens, there was only the creator. His first action was to create a son (Yeshua/Jesus) and between the two of them created everything else. This sounds nice but God exist in the God head. There are three parts of the God head, Father Son and Holy Spirit. it is called the God head bodily for a reason. We at salvation recieve the spirit of Christ being sealed into kingdom by the holy spirit at the time of salvaiton, then in obidence we recieve the Holy Spirit which is the spirit of the Father. Then we also have our own bodies. thus 3 God head bodily exist in all christians. yeat God is one and all this was assigned at one point in our lives called salvation in which the fullness of the baptist took place and we then walk out the fatih.
That is if you are born again. For by one spirit we all were baptised into one faith. 1 Cor 12:13

Colossians 1:15 - He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Notice it does not say he is the image of a invisible image.
as the Jehovah Witness claim he is.

John 1:1 says that “the Word was God.” John 1:14 says that “the Word became flesh.” This clearly indicates that Jesus is God in the flesh. Acts 20:28 tells us, "...Be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood." Who bought the church with His own blood? Jesus Christ. Acts 20:28 declares that God purchased the church with His own blood. Therefore, Jesus is God!

Thomas the disciple declared concerning Jesus, “Lord and my God” (John 20:28). Jesus does not correct him. Titus 2:13 encourages us to wait for the coming of our God and Savior - Jesus Christ (see also 2 Peter 1:1). In Hebrews 1:8, the Father declares of Jesus, "But about the Son He says, "Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom."

In Revelation, an angel instructed the Apostle John to only worship God (Revelation 19:10). Several times in Scripture Jesus receives worship (Matthew 2:11; 14:33; 28:9,17; Luke 24:52; John 9:38). He never rebukes people for worshiping Him. If Jesus were not God, He would have told people to not worship Him, just as the angel in Revelation had. There are many other verses and passages of Scripture that argue for Jesus’ deity.

The most important reason that Jesus has to be God is that if He is not God, His death would not have been sufficient to pay the penalty for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2). Only God could pay such an infinite penalty. Only God could take on the sins of the world (2 Corinthians 5:21), die, and be resurrected - proving His victory over sin and death.

Answer 5

The bible calls both Jesus and the Devil as a God.
2Cor. 4:4 – “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers”

Of course the Devil is not the creator and neither is Jesus.

The Hebrews separated the creators name from his son’s own name making it easier for us to know the difference between them.

Creator = Yahweh in Hebrew, Iehova/Jehovah in English
Creator’s Son = Yeshua in Hebrew, Jesus in English

Before anything existed, our planet earth, our universe, even the sprit world called the heavens, there was only the creator. His first action was to create a son (Yeshua/Jesus) and between the two of them created everything else.

Colossians 1:15 - He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Answer 6

I am a Christian.

I think one of the most difficulty realities to grasp is the divinity of Jesus. People will say "He is fully man and fully God." That is nice pithy statement but it can't be a reality can it? I mean if Jesus was fully man then he can't be God. Or if he was fully God then you couldn't have been man. And to what extent was Jesus God on earth? Jesus never claimed to be God. He did claim to be the Son of GOd. And he prayed to the Father, so he obviously wasn't fully God he was divine but divine wrapped in flesh. Yet as I say that let me share this verse with you that complicates my whole understanding:

Col 2:9

"For in Christ all the fullness of the Diety lives in bodily form."

Personally when I read the gospels and I read this, this is probably one of the hardest things to grasp in Christian faith. Jesus while on earth did not allow himself to be worshiped. He was only worshiped after his ressurection. See Luke. So perhaps this is a reference of Jesus after the ressurection since it was a bodily ressurection Jesus is now the fullness of the diety in a bodily form. hmmm....some tough questoins to deal with.

I completely believe Scriptures. Some of this I think our earthly minds can't grasp.

Update: Regards to ROD C COMMENTS:
Lets make man in "our" image is not a reference to the trinity or to Jesus. This is a theological concept and known as the Royal We. Or the plural being used about oneself to demonstrate a sense of authority or royalty.

Answer 7

Well, if you really look at it, Jesus is not god but rather a demigod. His genetic code would be a combination of the human Mary and the god of the Jews. Technically, if you believe in this mythology, that makes Jesus a demigod.

Answer 8

God exists in the holy trinity. Father, Son and Holy spirit

The Father exists outside of the universe. Jesus is that part of God who took human form inside our universe. The Holy Spirit is that part of God that lives within us.

Answer 9

God the Father, creator of all.

What you're getting into is Trinitarian theology. God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are all God - three seperate yet one whole. (Remember, we are not bound by the confines of dimensional space and time when talking about God.) You'll probably start hitting into a field of philosophy called "ontology" (the study of the state of "being") if you want to take this far enough.

Answer 10

Jehovah is God and Father Of Jesus Christ...

Jesus Christ

Definition: The only-begotten Son of God, the only Son produced by Jehovah alone. This Son is the firstborn of all creation. By means of him all other things in heaven and on earth were created. He is the second-greatest personage in the universe. It is this Son whom Jehovah sent to the earth to give his life as a ransom for mankind, thus opening the way to eternal life for those of Adam’s offspring who would exercise faith. This same Son, restored to heavenly glory, now rules as King, with authority to destroy all the wicked and to carry out his Father’s original purpose for the earth. The Hebrew form of the name Jesus means “Jehovah Is Salvation”; Christ is the equivalent of the Hebrew Ma·shi´ach (Messiah), meaning “Anointed One.”

Is Jesus Christ actually God?

John 17:3, RS: “[Jesus prayed to his Father:] This is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God [“who alone art truly God,” NE], and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” (Notice that Jesus referred not to himself but to his Father in heaven as “the only true God.”)

John 20:17, RS: “Jesus said to her [Mary Magdalene], ‘Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” (So to the resurrected Jesus, the Father was God, just as the Father was God to Mary Magdalene. Interestingly, not once in Scripture do we find the Father addressing the Son as “my God.”)

See also pages 411, 416, 417, under the heading “Trinity.”

Does John 1:1 prove that Jesus is God?

John 1:1, RS: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God [also KJ, JB, Dy, Kx, NAB].” NE reads “what God was, the Word was.” Mo says “the Logos was divine.” AT and Sd tell us “the Word was divine.” The interlinear rendering of ED is “a god was the Word.” NW reads “the Word was a god”; NTIV uses the same wording.

What is it that these translators are seeing in the Greek text that moves some of them to refrain from saying “the Word was God”? The definite article (the) appears before the first occurrence of the·os´ (God) but not before the second. The articular (when the article appears) construction of the noun points to an identity, a personality, whereas a singular anarthrous (without the article) predicate noun before the verb (as the sentence is constructed in Greek) points to a quality about someone. So the text is not saying that the Word (Jesus) was the same as the God with whom he was but, rather, that the Word was godlike, divine, a god. (See 1984 Reference edition of NW, p. 1579.)

What did the apostle John mean when he wrote John 1:1? Did he mean that Jesus is himself God or perhaps that Jesus is one God with the Father? In the same chapter, verse 18, John wrote: “No one [“no man,” KJ, Dy] has ever seen God; the only Son [“the only-begotten god,” NW], who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.” (RS) Had any human seen Jesus Christ, the Son? Of course! So, then, was John saying that Jesus was God? Obviously not. Toward the end of his Gospel, John summarized matters, saying: “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, [not God, but] the Son of God.”—John 20:31, RS.