Did Jesus Claim to Be God?

Detective J. Warner Wallace discusses aspects of Jesus’ life which clearly show that Jesus understood himself to be divine.

[Faiselmoha]

This is a beautiful story of the birth of Jesus Christ, in a way that you have never read or told.

16. And mention in the Book (the story of) Mary, when she withdrew in seclusion from her family to a place facing east.
17. She placed a screen (to screen herself) from them; then We sent to her Our Ruh [angel Gabriel], and he appeared before her in the form of a man in all respects.
18. She said: "Verily! I seek refuge with the Most Beneficent (God Almighty) from you, if you do fear God."
19. (The angel) said: "I am only a Messenger from your Lord, (to announce) to you the gift of a righteous son."
20. She said: "How can I have a son, when no man has touched me (i.e., illegal sexual intercourse), nor am I unchaste?"
21. He said: "So (it will be), your Lord said: 'That is easy for Me: And (We wish) to appoint him as a sign to mankind and a mercy from Us (God), and it is a matter (already) decreed, (by God).' "
22. So she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to a far place (i.e. Bethlehem valley about 4-6 miles from Jerusalem).
23. And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!"
24. Then [the angel Gabriel] cried unto her from below her, saying: "Grieve not! Your Lord has provided a water stream under you;
25. "And shake the trunk of date-palm towards you, it will let fall fresh ripe-dates upon you."
26. "So eat and drink and be glad, and if you see any human being, say: 'Verily! I have vowed a fast unto the Most Beneficent (God almighty) so I shall not speak to any human being this day.'"
27. Then she brought him (the baby) to her people, carrying him. They said: "O Mary! Indeed you have brought an unheard mighty thing.
28. "O sister of Aaron (i.e. the like of Aaron) [not the brother of Moses, but he was another pious man at the time of Mary]! Your father was not a man who used to commit adultery, nor your mother was an unchaste woman."
29. Then she pointed to him. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?"
30. "He [Jesus] said: Verily! I am a servant of God, He has given me the Scripture (i.e. The Gospel] and made me a Prophet;"
31. "And He has made me blessed wheresoever I be, and has enjoined on me prayer, and charity, as long as I live."
32. "And dutiful to my mother, and made me not arrogant, unblest.
33. "And peace be upon me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive [on the Day of Resurrection in the hereafter]!"
34. Such is Jesus, son of Mary. (it is) a statement of truth, about which they doubt and dispute.
35. It befits not (the Majesty of) God almighty that He should beget a son. Glorified and Exalted be He (God) above all that they associate with Him. When He decrees a thing, He only says to it, "Be!" and it is.
36. Jesus said: "And verily God is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him alone. That is the Straight Path.
37. Then the sects differed [i.e. the Christians about Jesus], so woe unto the disbelievers [those who gave false witness by saying that Jesus is the son of God almighty] from the meeting of a great Day (i.e. the Day of Resurrection in the hereafter).

[sandradominguez]

Yes, Jesus said he was God.
"Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58) "I and my Father are one." (John 10:30) "The Father is in me, and I in him." (John 10:39) "He that has seen me has seen the Father." (John 14:9)

[joh]

Revelation 2:8
8 “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.

[bobbyadkins]

Matthew 12:8
[8]For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

[canderssonswedican]

Exodus 3:13-14 (I AM THAT I AM)
And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, what is his name? What shall I say unto them?
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

John 8:58 10:30-36
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
The Jews answered him, saying, for a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man makest thyself God.
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are Gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the son of God?

Jesus states " the Father and I are one" He's talking about being one in nature not one in will, we know this because the Jews understood it to be one in nature "thou being a man, makest thyself God", notice they didn't say "a God but just God",

John 5:18 states
“Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken{loosed} the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God”

…..Jesus understood the Jews were interpreting it this way. For he states

John 8:58
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM”

….Jesus knew this was something every Jew had burned in his mind from infancy

Exodus 3:14 “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM".

The "I am formula (Gk egō eimi)" harks back to God's only name, "Yahweh" (OT/3068, "the lord") – meaning "He who always was, is, and will be."

So to hear someone else use it and apply to himself BLASPHEMY ! Absolutely.

Colossians 2:9
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Deity bodily.,
ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ κατοικεῖ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς Θεότητος σωματικῶς

This indicates most unequivocally the full divinity of Jesus Christ, for neither any man, even the most saintly one, nor any angel, even the highest in angelic hierarchy can contain the "fullness" or "entirety" of Divinity. The word “Godhead” embodies the very essence of the Divine Being which dwells in Jesus.

John 14:9
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

To behold Jesus was to see GOD

Philippians 2:6
Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God

Why? He was God. When Jesus Christ was asked what the first and greatest commandment of the law was, He stated in

Mark 12:29
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is One Lord

God states:

Hebrews 1:8
But unto the Son he (God) saith, Thy throne O God, is for ever and ever:

The Holy Spirit applies this to Jesus in (Hebrews) and to The Father in (Psalm 45:6).

Psalm 45:6
Your throne, O God, will last,
forever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.

John 8:58, 6:18.
Jesus was persecuted and crucified for making himself equal with the “only existing God ", since the Jews only accepted one living God. He was not implying he was a lesser god or a second god, but that he had the same nature or was coexistent with him as an equal. The Jews understood this very clearly.

Colossians 2:9 {Yet while a human he was still GOD}
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,

…..So here the Holy Spirit states that someone will cry in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of yehôvâh, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

In Isaiah 40:3
"The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God."

…..But here the Holy Spirit speaks of Jesus. So in Isaiah the Holy Spirit said Yahweh and in Mark he said Jesus. Is the picture getting clearer? John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus. Isaiah said the way will be prepared for the LORD or in Hebrew Yahweh.

Mark 1:3
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."


Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes to see wonderful things in your Word.

In His Service,

[paulbaysa]

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[JewessChrstnMystic]

I'm really confused by this, so if hes god, that means he is his own father, and impregnated his mother and sacrificed himself to himself? Btw alot of the verses he talks about were never in the oldest manuscripts we have, those things were added in way later by the church when they were trying to figure out their theology.

[redcorrectmanga]

God in his purely nature is just like light🕯️ so for having himself came on us his is suppose take human from so that human with he supposed to take that is Jesus 💕 Jesus blood is the lightning of god light. God created human being in his on image himself that is Jesus

[jesusisthechristthesonofgod]

No, Jesus did not claim to be God.
He claimed to be the Christ and the Son of God.

John 10:36
Say ye of him,
whom the Father hath sanctified,
and sent into the world,
Thou blasphemest;
because I said,
I am the Son of God?

John 4:25-26
25 The woman saith unto him,
I know that Messias cometh,
which is called Christ:
when he is come,
he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her,
I that speak unto thee am he.

[cribedadabecri]

Clear enough. But even if we beleive what Jesus beleived about himself, the question is. ¿Why should I beleive what Jesus beleived about himself? I think that a second step is necesary to become a truly beleiver of Jesus as our only God and Saviour, and that is to have a personal relation with Him. In other words, to ask Him, humbly of course, to reveal Himself to you in your life. You become a real beleiver whenever you have a personal intervention of Jesus in your personal life ("historical"- as it happened in the life of Saint Paul, and every other beleiver, ever since).

[amirbekabdirasulov]

O Christ-worshippers! We want an answer to our question [from your wise ones],
If the Lord was murdered by some people's act, what kind of god is this?
We wonder! Was He pleased by what they did to Him?
If yes, blessed be they, they achieved His pleasure,
But if He was discontented, this means their power had subjugated Him!

Was the whole entity left without a Sustainer, so who answered the prayers?
Were the heavens vacated, when He laid under the ground somewhere?
Were all the worlds left without a God, to manage while His hands were nailed?
Why did not the angels help Him, when they heard him while he wailed?

How could the rods stand to bear the True Lord when He was fastened,
How could the irons reached Him and [had] His body pinned?
How could His enemies' hands reach Him and slap His rear,
And was Christ revived by himself, or was the Reviver another god?

What a sight it was, a grave that enclosed a god,
Stranger still is the belly that confined Him!
He stayed there for nine months in utter darkness, fed by blood!
Then he got out of the womb as a small baby,
Weak and gasping to be breast-fed!
He ate and drank, and did what that naturally resulted, 1
Is this [what you call] a god?
High Exalted be Allah above the lies of Christians,
All of them will be held accountable for their libels!

O Cross-worshippers! For what reason is this exalted
and blame [is cast upon those] who reject it?
Is it not logical to break and burn it, along with the one who innovated it?2
Since the Lord was crucified on it, and his hands were fastened to it?
That is really a cursed cross to carry,
So discard it, do not kiss it!3

The Lord was abused on it, and you adore it?
So [it is clear that] you are one of His enemies!
If you extol it because it carried the Lord of the Worlds,
Why don't you prostrate yourself and worship graves,
Since the grave contained your god in it?4

So Christ-worshippers, open your eyes,
This is what the matter is all about.

Dear Brothers and sisters,
Please, excuse me if I offended you. But I would like to share what I as a muslim think about Jesus.
First of all, according to Bible, all the believers are sons of God (Abraham, Moses, Jesus) but not begotten, and God is the father in Heaven. He is God—One ˹and Indivisible. God—the Sustainer ˹needed by all. He has never had offspring, nor was He born. And there is none comparable to Him. We can't give qualities of animals and creations to the Almighty Creator.

Disclaimer: I believe Jesus was one of the chosen. I also believe he gave life to dead, but by the permission of God. This was the sign to the children of Israel (Jews) that God was with him and that he was the real messiah. Quran (Islamic Scripture) confirms it.

God send Muhammad to the world as a true prophet and Quran as a final scripture. According to archaeological findings, scientist compared the current Quran with one of the earliest Quran stored in Birmingham University. There were no difference between them. Moreover, Quran contains scientific facts which no man(Muhammad) 1400 years ago could have known. To maintain its purity, we muslims don't translate Quran literally. We just comment on them. Bible contains astonishing science too as it was from God, but it lost it's quality and contains some mistakes as well.
Whoever accepts Muhammad and all the prophets (Adam, Abraham, Jesus, Moses, David, Jacob, Joseph peace be upon them all) is muslim. Whoever denies one of them (even if it is Jesus) is non-believer.
So Please brothers and sisters, make your research on Bible and true teachings of Jesus (the chosen one) and Islam. Jesus never said he was God, he encouraged people to worship only one true God - Allah (or Elloh in Aramaic). These kind of verses were taken out of context and some changed it, starting with Saint Paul. Please feel free to WhatsApp me for any questions you might have (WhatsApp: [phone]). I hope you will join us in Islam, the fastest growing religion in the world despite a lots of challenges from media. Please also whatsapp me to clarify some misunderstandings about Islam or if you want to challenge me on some questions.
Sincerely,
Amirbek Abdirasulov

[cesargomez]

Matthew 4:4, 7, 10, 11; Luke 4:4, 8, 12. We will be shocked to know to whom Jesus told it! The evidence was right there all alone.

[annmyann]

Did you know that God created the heavens and the earth, and the seas and everything in them with is Word?
Did you know that Christ is that Word in which all things were created?
Did you know that God created this earth and everything in it through Jesus (who is The Word Of God) and by Jesus Christ all things were created? Did you know that all things were created by Jesus, and for Jesus? Amen! To the glory of God.

If you are confused about who Christ Jesus is, please read this. Thank you!

Acts chapter 4 verse 12: "There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved."

Yeshua Ha Massiach

Who is Christ? Who is Jesus?

Jesus, the Christ, is God's word made flesh. Jesus is Jehovah God's (The Creator's) Word made into flesh.

1 John chapter 5 verse 7: " For there are three that bear a record in heaven, The Father, The Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one."

John chapter 1 verse 1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John chapter 1 verse 14: " And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."

John chapter 1 verse 10: " He was in the world, and the world  knew Him not."

Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12: " For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

How beautiful and awesome is God's Word, who is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Magnificent in all His glory, is He.

Amen!

John's Vision Of Christ Seated On His Throne In Heaven:

Revelation chapter 4 verse 2 to 3: " Immediately, I (John), was in the Spirit, and behold a throne sat in Heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance, and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald."

Why did Christ Jesus came and sacrificed His precious life for sinners like us?

Christ (God's Word made into flesh), came because through flesh (Adam's flesh) sin entered the world, and then because of sin death entered the whole earth. Through flesh(Jesus Christ's flesh), the earth will be saved, sin is destroyed, and the curse of death  shall be broken, death and the grave shall be cast into hell.

Christ, who is God's Word made into flesh, sacrificed His life for us. He was crucified for our sins and transgressions.

Christ died, and on the third day He resurrected in the flesh, conquering death and the grave. Now,   Christ is seated in Heaven, at the right hand of Power(God). Through Christ's sacrifice we gain Salvation through God's abundant mercy and grace. We are reconciled and recompensed back to God, through the shed blood of His beloved Son Christ Jesus.

John chapter 3 verse 16: " For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that who ever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life."

Romans chapter 5 verse 8: " But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Christ came to undo the sin and eternal death brought upon the world through the sin of Adam.

Death in Adam, Life In Christ:

Romans chapter 5 verse 19: " For as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience, many will be made righteous."

Romans chapter 5 verse 18: " Therefore, as through one man's (Adam's) offense judgement came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even through one Man's (Christ's) righteous act, the free gift came to all men, resulting in the justification of life."

Romans chapter 5 verse 17: " For if by the one man's offense(Adam's offense), death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in the life through the One(Jesus Christ).

Romans chapter 5 verse 12: " Therefore, just as through one man (Adam)sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned."

Romans chapter 5 verse 21: " "So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

 Do you now see that through Adam, sin and death entered the world, so that is why Christ Jesus came to give life, and give it abundantly? Yes Christ came to give eternal life through Salvation.

Adam's flesh brought sin, death, destruction, and condemnation.

Christ's sacrifice, the crucifixtion  of His flesh, brings reconciliation of sins, life, resurrection, eternal life, salvation

Christ is coming back again, not as a sacrificial lamb. He is coming back as a roaring, waring lion, to destroy sin, death, and the grave once and for all. Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Hallelujah!

Revelation chapter 22 verse 12 to 13: " And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. "

Now do you see friends, Why Christ Jesus is so so Important for our Salvation? Yes.

Now, do you understand why there is only one way to God, and that is only through Christ Jesus, only? Yes.

Christ is Salvation. Christ is our Lord and Saviour. Christ is the only way to God. Christ is the only Mediator between God and men(us humans).

God loves us so much, He does not want anyone to perish in hell. God wants all sinners to be saved. That is why He sent His Word to save the world. God's Word became flesh, and dwelt among us to save us.

Will you accept Christ and be saved?

Romans chapter 6 verse 23: "  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

John Chapter 3 verse 16: " For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that who ever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life."

Salvation is free!

Salvation is free!

Christ already paid the price, all you have to do is recieve salvation through acceptance of Jesus Christ, Yeshua Ha Massiach.

So who is Christ?

He is The Word Of God. He is the Son of God. He is God. He is the image of the unseen God. He is the Alpha and Omega. He is the beginning and the end. He is the Great I Am. He is Emmanuel. He is The Christ. He is The Messiah. He is The Creator. He is our Lord and Saviour. He is our Mediator. He is the Lion and the Lamb. He is Salvation. He is the way, the truth, and life.

Amen!

I love you Lord!

John chapter 14 verse 6: " Jesus said to him, " I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

Colassians chapter 1 verse 15 to 16:
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him."

John chapter 1 verse 1 to 4:
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. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."

I hope that you know Christ, and understand Christ better now, to the glory of God.

Amen!

Christ is for all who will receive Him.

Repent of your sins.
Submit to Jehovah-God.
Love God with all your heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit.
Love one another.
Forgive one another.
It is written, that if you "resist the devil, and submit to God, then devil will flee from you."
Hate sin with all your heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit.

[rositalondon]

Jesus Said, "When the Comforter, the Holy Spirit has Come - the Spirit of Truth, he will Teach you All Things"
And Thus, the Trustworthy Spirit has Brought the Qur'an down upon your Heart, O Muhammad, as a Detailed Explanation of All Things, and Indeed it is Mentioned in the Former Scriptures [the Bible]
61:6, Qur'an
[Remember] when Jesus, the son of Mary, said, "O Children of Israel, indeed I am the messenger of God to you, confirming what is in my hands of the Torah and bringing good news of a messenger to come after me -

John 16:8 - 12, Gospel
[Whereby, ] when he has come, he will expose the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement. Of sin, because they do not believe in me; of righteousness, because I go to [God] my [Creator], and you see me no more; of judgement, because the prince of this world is judged. I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

John 16:7, Gospel
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him to you -

John 14:16, Gospel
[For] I will ask [God] the [Creator], and He will give you another Comforter, so that he may abide with you forever.

John 15:26, Gospel
[And] when the Comforter has come, whom I will send to you from [God] the [Creator], [even] the Spirit of Truth, which proceeds from [God] the [Creator], he will testify of me.

John 14:26, Gospel
[And] the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom [God] the [Creator] will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you.

John 16:13, Gospel
[And thus, ] when he, the Spirit of Truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he will hear, [that] he will speak, and he will show you things to come."

[AlexSmithfitu]

He also said that we are all gods and that we can do greater works than he has done

[Randms]

What if Jesus is really God’s son…and he is a God….cuz he is the son of God.

Why does Jesus have to pray to God?

Why does Jesus say that ….he is working for his father ….everything he did…he said it was for his father

[na]

Thanks for your presentation, I have some questions about Jesus based on statements from Bible, if you would like to answer please:
Q1. Did Jesus prophesied that his fate would be like that of prophet Jonah, who was emerged alive from the fish (Matthew 12:39, 40)? Q2. Did Jesus prayed to be rescued from death on the cross, ‘to remove the cup‘ (Marks:14:36)? Q3. Did Pilate convinced that Jesus was innocent, he had sympathy, her wife saw a dream and he also said that I washed my hands (Mathew 27:19)? Q4. Was not Jesus a strong young man of 33, being carpenter, on cross for 4-6 hrs only, a short duration and His legs were not broken (John 19:33)? Q5. Was not Pilate surprised when he was told that Jesus was “already dead” (Mark 15:44) ? Q6. Was not there flow of blood and water, when Jesus was pierced with a spear, a sign of beating heart (John 19:34)? Q7. Was not about 75 pounds of Myrrh and Aloes, healing herbs, brought and applied on wounds of Jesus (John 19:33)? Q8. Did not Jesus show His wounds to Thomas being a patient’s body and not supernatural (John 20:25, 7)? Q9. Did not Jesus say that He was sent to the lost sheep of Israel (Matthew 15:24)? Conclusion: Pilate being empathetic and authoritative planed, for Jesus to minimise time on Cross and torture, to increase probability of life and succeeded. Then after being cured Jesus migrated towards lost sheep, twelve tribes like in Afghanistan and India. There is a tomb in Kashmir named on prophet Yusuf-Asaf, possibly Yehoshua (Jesus). Thanks once again.
Naeem Ahmed

[gerryquinn]

Can God have a God? Surely a God that has a God is not the one true God or God Almighty. What did Jesus himself say ? John 17 :3; John 20 : John 20 :17; Rev 3 : 12.

[mohdsharifuddin]

I think Before Abraham was "I AM" meaning jesus just saying that he a kind of similar or same as Adam, Noah and early prophet and messenger before Abraham.. Not like Before Adam was I AM..

[tongakhan]

Total nonsense as usual.
Jesus in answer to Satan says "IT IS WRITTEN". He quotes scriptures.
Satan knew that Jesus was a son of God as Satan too was. If Satan for a moment thought that Jesus was God, he wouldn't have had the guts to try and tempt God.
IF Jesus was God he couldn't sin. This would make the temptations of Jesus a charade with Jesus in on it.