JESUS CHRIST is FULLY GOD / The Deity of Christ: To complete the Biblical teaching about Jesus Christ, we must affirm not only that he was fully human, but also that he was fully divine. The incarnation was the act of God the Son whereby he took to himself a human nature. The Scriptural /Biblical proof for the deity of Christ is very extensive in the New Testament: 1) Direct Scriptural/Biblical Claims: a). The Word God (Theos) used of Christ: Although the word theo, God, is usually reserved in the New Testament for God the father, nonetheless, there are several passage the God is used in the strong sense to refer to the one who is the Creator of heaven and earth, the ruler over all. These passages include John 1:1; John 1:18 (in older and better manuscripts); John 20:28; Romans 9:5; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8 (quoting Psalms 45:6); and 2 Peter 1:1 . As these passage have been discussed in some detail in the chapter on the Trinity, the discussion will not be repeated here. It is enough to note that there are at least these seven clear passages in the New Testament that explicitly refer to JESUS as GOD. One Old Testament example of the name God applied to Christ is seen in a familiar messianic passage: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shouler, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God ... (Isaiah 9:6) b). The Word Lord (Kyrios) Used of Christ: Sometimes the word Lord (Greek kyrios) is used simply as a polite address to a superior, roughly equivalent to sir (see Matt. 13:27; 21:30; 27:63; John 4:11). Sometimes it can simply mean master of a servant or slave (6:24; 21:40). Yet the same word also used in Septuagint ( the Greek translation of the Old Testament, which was commonly used at the time of Christ ) as a translation for the Hebrew yhwh, Yahweh or ( as it is frequently translated) the LORD, or Jehovah. The word kyrios is used to translate the name of the Lord 6,814 times in the Greek Old Testament. Therefore, any Greek-speaking reader at the time of the New Testament who had any knowledge at all of the Greek Old Testament would have recognized that, in contexts where it was appropriate, the word Lord was the name of the one who the Creator and Sustainer of heaven and earth, the Omnipotent God ( Luke 2:11; Luke 2:18; Lule 1:43; Matt. 3:3; Matt. 22:44; 1 Cor. 8:6)
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