Can someone tell where in the old testament it says Jesus is God?

Question

The Bible, or more specifically a portion of it called the Gospels, tells of a Galilean teacher who taught about repentance in the face of the coming of the Kingdom of God. He was supposed to have been born miraculously of a virgin. The events surrounding his birth, as described in the scriptures, testify to the special status of Jesus. The ministry of Jesus was also punctuated with miracles of healing, of raising the dead and of his control over nature. He was eventually crucified by a Roman court after being betrayed by one of his followers. However, the scriptures also showed that the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate tried his best to release Jesus but through the insistence of the Jews, was forced to have him crucified. On the third day after he was buried, Jesus' tomb was empty and he was seen again alive by his disciples. The epistles of St. Paul teaches that Jesus was the atoning sacrifice for mankind's sins and the original sin of Adam and Eve. Thus was how the Bible described Jesus and his mission. No where was it unambiguously stated that Jesus was God. But Christianity today, again with the exception of some fringe churches, teaches that Jesus Christ is truly God. Where did this dogma come from? It came from an extra Biblical source, the creeds.

I have had Christians tell me that the old testament states that Jesus was in fact God, I am asking where that is.

Answer 1

Jesus was Gods representative on earth. To explain the trinity and God-Jesus-sprit think of the analogy of water. Say water is God...Jesus would be ice and the holy spirit would be the steam. They are all water, just different forms. Therefore Jesus can be seen as God.

Answer 2

More accurately it came from an extra supplemental Biblical source in that Matt XVI, verses 18-19 which gives and shares the infallibility of the Bible with the Church. In this sense the Bible is still be written through the Holy Spirit. The old testiment of creation and the fall, the new testiment of salvation and final sactification by the Holy Spirit will make it whole and complete in the end. However, Son of God implies a share in the Divine Nature. Cats beget cats, dogs beget dogs, human nature begets human nature and Divine Nature begets Divine Nature. Jesus, as the Son of God, has an equal share in the Divine Nature which is, eternal and almighty.

Answer 3

First, I think you mean "New Testament," not "Old Testament." And it is easy enough to look up a list of verses that mention the deity of Christ. But more importantly, the dogma of the deity of Christ was well-established in Christianity some 200 years before any Church dogmatized an official list of Scripture, and some 500 years before any kind of Ecumenical pronouncement on the content of the "Bible." The Creeds were the basis for Christianity, not the Bible. The role of the Bible in Christianity was marginal at best until about the 14th century.

Answer 4

guy, the moral regulation, and the Lord. a guy asked Jesus "How am i able to have eternal existence?" To which Jesus reported "Obey the commandments." Does this mean there is yet differently, as properly concept in Jesus, to be granted eternal existence? As you're able to keep in mind, Jesus informed that guy "there is one element you lack ..." And it variety of feels inevitable that anybody attempting to envision a righteousness on their own by utilising obedience to the ten instructions, will locate out that there is often "one element you lack..." for this reason enable us to be helpful to assert that no guy would be declared righteous interior the sight of God by utilising obedience to the regulation. this would not sum up all factors of the regulation, despite the fact that that's a clever tale approximately this subject remember: A clutz brags approximately his coordination. despite the fact that, his self assurance is in accordance with lack of understanding, because of the fact all he does is sit down around all day upon his palms. for that reason, a clever guy (seeing the difficulty) tells the clutz to upward push up and fetch some dishes interior the kitchen ... and as predicted a crash shows the inevitable ... the clutz dropped all the dishes! a lot for his coordination. So the clever guy gave a command that could exhibit to the clutz a topic that he became the two blind to or had in any different case denied ... that certainly he became not coordinated. And so we examine: Ro 5:20 And the Torah got here into the image so as that the offence might proliferate; yet the place sin proliferated, grace proliferated much greater. plumb would not a plumb line point out the place a wall is crooked? certainly it does. Does the plumb line MAKE the wall at as quickly as? It can not. yet as quickly as at as quickly as, the plumb line will adventure the wall that became made at as quickly as by utilising yet another! i'm not speaking approximately mere partitions and plumb lines, am I? I talk of guy and the regulation ... and yet another (the Lord) Who makes at as quickly as each human beings that the regulation exhibits as crooked. we could agree that the moral regulation that condemns us isn't the fundamental source by utilising which to repair us. It exhibits our wickedness, in comparison, and it validates the fruit of the Spirit by utilising assessment.

Answer 5

No where in the Hebrew (OT) or the Greek (NT)--as you stated but there is clear expressions as to who created Jesus as the very 1st of ANY type of creation:

PROV. 8: YOUNGS LITERAL TRANSLATION:

"22Jehovah possessed me -- the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.
23From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.
24In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters,
25Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.
26While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.
27In His preparing the heavens I [am] there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,..... "

(Proverbs 8:22-27)NWT “. . .“Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago. 23 From time indefinite I was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth. 24 When there were no watery deeps I was brought forth as with labor pains, when there were no springs heavily charged with water. 25 Before the mountains themselves had been settled down, ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains, 26 when as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land. 27 When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep......”

Who else but the only begotten Son of God could that be?

No tricky trinity anywhere!

Answer 6

1 Corinthians 10:1-8New Living Translation (NLT)
Lessons from Israel’s Idolatry

10 I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters,[a] about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2 In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. 3 All of them ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. And as posted above, John 1:1-5,14

Answer 7

Probably in the Psalms.
And the widely used Isaiah 9:6, as well as other isaiah passages that are similar.. Isaiah 35, Isaiah 40.
And in song of solomon I've read are metaphors of Jesus being God.

Answer 8

John 1
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood[a] it.
14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,[d] who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.


Old Testament reference, as requested:
Isaiah 40
3 A voice of one calling:
"In the desert prepare
the way for the LORD [a] ;
make straight in the wilderness
a highway for our God. [b]

New Testament Fulfillment:
Mark 1
2It is written in Isaiah the prophet:
"I will send my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way"[a]—
3"a voice of one calling in the desert,
'Prepare the way for the Lord,
make straight paths for him.' "[b] 4And so John came, baptizing in the desert region and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Answer 9

Why did everyone in the bible become so angry when Jesus proclaimed "I AM". Why would he be sentenced to floggings and death unless he said he was God? And what man's sacrifice could save the world?

Answer 10

its only stated in the pentecostal type churches, where the preachers are as ignorant about bible study as their sunday school class. its the same people who believe the garbage about the rapture. I think they've made up a new bible.