Is Jesus God?
*This study guide is meant to accompany the audio CD of "The Trinity"
He who denies
the Father and the Son is
antichrist. Everyone who denies the Son neither has the Father. The one confessing
the Son also has the Father. (1Jo
The difficulty of the Trinity
To
whom then will you compare God? Or what likeness will you compare to
Him? (Isa 40:18)
(It’s
important to know that the Bible does not explain
the Trinity, but it declares the
Trinity to be truth, so we
should be ready to do the same.)
Jesus in creation
In
the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth. And the earth was without form and empty. And
darkness was
on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved on the face of the waters. And God
said, Let there be light. And there
was light.
(Gen
1:1-3)
In
the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the
beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without
Him nothing was made that was made. (Joh 1:1-3)
Jesus is
“the Word”
For
there are three that bear witness in heaven: the
Father, the Word, and the Holy
Spirit, and these three are one. (1Jo 5:7)
And
He had been clothed in
a garment dipped
in blood, and His name is called The Word
of God. (
Jesus, the Spirit, and the Father
are one and yet
distinct
that
they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I
in You, that they also may be one
in Us, so that the
world may believe that You have sent Me. (Joh
17:21)
Therefore
go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit (Mat
28:19)
Jesus is the Creator of all things
For all things were created by Him, the
things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for
Him. (
God,
who at many times and in many ways spoke in time past to the fathers by
the
prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His
Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds, (Heb 1:1-2)
God is spoken of in plural in the
Old Testament
And
God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our
likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth,
and over all the creepers creeping on the earth. (Gen
1:26)
Come,
let Us go down and there confuse
their language, so that they cannot understand one another's speech.
(Gen
11:7)
And I
heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go
for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me! (Isa 6:8)
Hear,
O,
-
“yachad”
vs. “echad”
-
yachad = one in the strictest
sense
-
echad (used here) = unity, a
plurality of one-ness, a unit of more
than one, to unify
Jesus as Savior
revealed
His Word in its own times in a proclamation, with which I was entrusted
by the
command of God our Savior,) to
Titus, a true child according to our
common faith. Grace mercy and peace from God the Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. (Tit 1:3-4)
For
to you is born today, in the
city of
Declare
and bring near; yea, let them take counsel together. Who has declared
this of
old? Who
has told it from then? Is it
not I, Jehovah? And there
is no other
God besides Me; a just God and a Savior;
there is none besides
The names
of God declare that Jesus is God
“Lord of
Lords”
For
Jehovah your God is
God of gods, and Lord of lords, a
great God, the mighty,
and a terrible God, who does not respect persons nor take a bribe. (Deu 10:17)
And
He has on His
garment, and on His thigh
a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD
OF LORDS.
(
“1st
and Last”
So
says Jehovah, the King of
Behold,
He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who
pierced Him
will see Him, and all the kindreds of the earth will wail because of
Him. Even
so, Amen. I am the Alpha and Omega,
the
Beginning and the
Ending, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is
to come, the Almighty. (Rev
1:7-8)
saying,
I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and
the Last. Also, What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven
churches which are in
And
when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand
upon me,
saying to me, Do not fear, I am the
First and the Last, and the Living One, and I became dead,
and behold, I am
alive for ever and ever, Amen. And I have the keys of hell and of
death. (Rev 1:17-18)
And
He sitting on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He
said to
me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. And He said to me, It
is
done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the
Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will give of the
fountain of
the Water of Life freely. (Rev
21:5-6)
And
behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is
with Me, to give to each according as his work is. I
am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First
and the Last. Blessed are
they who
do His commandments, that their authority will be over the Tree of
Life, and
they may enter in by the gates into the city. I,
Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things to you over
the churches.
I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and Morning Star. (Rev 22:12-16)
“Mighty
God”
For
to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall
be on His
shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
Prince of Peace. (Isa 9:6)
“Immanuel”
(“God With Us”)
So,
the Lord Himself shall give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will
conceive and
shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel.
(Isa 7:14)
"Behold,
the virgin shall conceive in her
womb,
and will bear a son. And they will call His name Immanuel,"
which being interpreted is, God with us.
(Mat
The Great
“I AM”
And
the Angel of Jehovah appeared to
him
in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a thorn bush. And he looked.
And
behold! The thorn bush burned with fire! And the thorn bush was not burned
up. (Exo
3:2)
And
He said, I am
the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God
of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid
to look upon God. (Exo
3:6)
And
Moses said to God, Behold, when
I come
to the sons of
Therefore
I said to you that you shall die in your sins, for if you do not
believe that I AM, you shall die in
your sins. (Joh 8:24)
Then
Jesus said to them, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you
shall know
that I AM, and that I do nothing of
Myself, but as My Father has taught Me, I speak these things. (Joh 8:28)
Behold,
the days come, says Jehovah, that I will raise to David a righteous
Branch, and
a King shall reign and act wisely, and shall do judgment and justice in
the
earth. In his days
(Jer
23:5-6)
We are
His Bride
For your Maker is
your husband; Jehovah of
Hosts
is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One
of
This
is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ
and the church. (Eph
5:32)
Many of the
works of God are attributed to Jehovah and to Jesus
Jesus’
Resurrection
Jesus
answered and said to them, Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. (Joh 2:19)
Therefore
My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I
might take it again. (Joh
10:17)
But
if the Spirit of the One who raised
up Jesus from the
dead dwells in you, the One who raised
up Christ from
the
dead shall also make your mortal
bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you. Rom
whom God raised up, having loosed the pains
of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. (Act
Many of
the attributes of God are attributed to Jehovah and to Jesus
He is
eternal
Before
the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and
the
world, even from everlasting to everlasting
You are
God. (Psa 90:2)
For
to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall
be on His
shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isa
9:6)
God’s
glory is an attribute of Jesus
I am
Jehovah; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another. (Isa 42:8)
And
now Father, glorify Me with
Yourself
with the glory which I had with You
before the world was.
(Joh
17:5)
Jesus
receives worship due only to God
And
it shall be if you do at all forget Jehovah your God and walk after
other gods
and serve them and worship them, I
testify against you today that you shall surely perish. (Deu 8:19)
For
you shall worship no other god. For
Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is
a
jealous God; (Exo 34:14)
And
again, when He brings in the First-born into the world, He says, "And let all the
angels of God worship Him."
(Heb 1:6)
I saw
in the night visions, and behold, One
like the Son of man came with the
clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him
near
before Him. And dominion and glory
was given Him, and a kingdom, that all
peoples, nations and languages, should serve Him. His
dominion is
an everlasting dominion which shall not pass
away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. (Dan 7:13-14)
And I
fell at his feet to worship him.
And
he said to me, See, do not do
it! I am
your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of
Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy. (
And
Thomas answered and said to Him, My Lord
and my God! (Joh
20:28)
Every
knee will bow to Jesus
that
at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of heavenly
ones, and of earthly ones, and of ones under the
earth; and that
every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the
glory of God the
Father. (Phi 2:10-11)
Turn
to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I
am
God, and there is no other.
I have sworn by Myself, the word has gone out of My mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, that to
Me every knee shall bow, every tongue
shall swear. (Isa
45:22-23)
The 2nd
Coming proves that Jesus is God
Behold,
Jehovah has sent a message to the
end of the earth, Tell the daughter of
comes.
Behold, His reward is with Him,
and His work before Him. (Isa
62:11)
And
behold, I am coming quickly, and My
reward is
with Me, to give to each
according as his work is.
(
And Jehovah shall go out and fight against
those nations, like the day He fought in the day of battle. And His feet shall stand in that day on the
who
also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the heaven? This same Jesus
who is taken up from you into Heaven, will
come in the way you have seen Him
going into Heaven. Then they returned to
even
from Jesus Christ the faithful
Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the
earth.
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and
made us
kings and priests to God and His Father, to Him be
glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, He
comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those
who
pierced Him will see Him, and all the kindreds of the earth will wail
because
of Him. Even so, Amen. (Rev
1:5-7)
looking
for the blessed hope, and the appearance
of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ (Tit
John the
Baptist spoke of Jesus as God
He
said, I am
"the voice of one crying
in the wilderness: Make straight the way
of the Lord," as the prophet Isaiah said. (Joh
1:23)
The
voice of him who cries in the wilderness, Prepare the
way of Jehovah, make straight a highway in the desert for our God. (Isa
40:3)
Isaiah
saw Jesus as God
In
the year that King Uzziah died I saw the
Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train
filled the
temple. (Isa 6:1)
Isaiah
said these things when he saw His glory
and spoke of Him. (Joh 12:41)
Other
verses and passages on the Deity of Jesus
And
without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God
was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by
angels, preached among nations, believed on in the
world, and received up into glory.
(1Ti
whose
are
the fathers, and of whom is
the Christ
according to flesh, He being God over
all, blessed forever. Amen. (Rom
9:5)
I and the
Father are one!
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, I
have
shown you many good works from My Father; for which of these do you
stone Me?
The Jews answered Him, saying, We do not stone you for a good work, but
for
blasphemy, and because you, being a man,
make yourself God. (Joh
10:30-33)
And
we know that the Son of God has come, and He
has given us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And
we are
in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus
Christ. This is the true God, and the everlasting life. (1Jo
Jesus as
“1stBorn”
For
He has
delivered us from the power of darkness and
has translated us
into the kingdom of
His dear Son; in whom we have redemption through His blood, the
remission of
sins. who is the
image of the invisible
God, the
First-born of all creation. For all
things were created in Him, the
things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers,
all things
were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and
by Him
all things consist.
(
They
shall come with weeping, and with prayers I will lead them. I will
cause them
to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not
stumble in
it, for I am a father to
And I
will make him My first-born,
higher than the kings of the earth.
(Psa
89:27)
Jesus
stated that the entire Old Testament spoke of Him
For
if you had believed Moses, you would have believed Me, for he wrote of Me. But if you do not believe
his writings, how shall
you believe My Words? (Joh
5:46-47)
You
search the Scriptures, for in them
you think you have eternal life. And these
are they which testify of Me (Joh