The Lord Jesus Christ
(The Divinity of Christ)
1) Introduction
2) The Creed on Christ with biblical
proofs
3) Other Biblical Proofs
1) Introduction
The Divinity of Christ is vital in the
Christian doctrine
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The Arian Heresy
+ The Ecumenical Council of Ephesus, 325 AD
- Arius and Athanasius
- The Creed
+ The heresy of Jehovah’s Witness
- Founded in Pennsylvania, USA in 1872
- Moved to NY in 1909 under the name “Watch
Tower Bible and Tract Society”
2) The Creed on Christ
We believe in One Lord, Jesus Christ:
• The Only Begotten Son of God
• Begotten from the Father before all ages
• Light of Light
• True God of True God
• Begotten not created
• of one essence with the Father
• by whom all things were made
The Lord Jesus Christ
• The names Lord and God were given
to the Father and to Christ (the Son)
+ “God (Father/Jehovah) spoke to
Moses and said to him: I AM the Lord”
Exodus 6:2
+ “And Thomas answered and said to
Him (Christ), My Lord and my God”
John 20:28
The Only Begotten Son of God
“Monogenies”
• “No one has seen God at any time. The
Only Begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the
Father, He has declared Him” John 1:18
+ “Son of God” => same essence of God
“I and My Father are One” John 10:30
+ “Begotten”
=> logos (logic) = the Word
“Christ is the Power and Wisdom of God” 1Cor1:24
+ “Only”
=> unique Sonship
In Christ’s Baptism: “This is My beloved Son, in whom
I am well pleased” Matt.3:17, also in His Transfiguration.
Begotten of the Father
before all ages
• Christ said to the Jews: “Before Abraham
was, I AM” John 8:58
• “I am the Root and the offspring of David”
Rev.22:16
• “Glorify Me with Yourself, with the glory
which I had with You before the world was”
Jn.17:5
Light of Light
• On Christ: “He was the True Light” John 1:9
• “Who (Christ) only has immortality, dwelling
in unapproachable light (the Father), whom no
man has seen or can see” 1Tim6:16
Analogy: The ray of the sun is generated from
the sun without beginning or separation and
exists with the source so long as the source
exists.
True God of True God
• On the Father: “Look to Me, and be
saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am
God, and there is no other (The True
God)” Isaiah 45:22
• “But to the Son, He says ‘Your throne ,
O God, is forever and ever’ Hebrews 1:8.
Begotten not created (made)
The Son was incarnated at certain time but
His Divinity was NOT created i.e. at a certain
time. It is eternal with the Father and the Holy
Spirit within the Triune God.
• On the Father: “I am the First and I am the
Last; besides Me there is no God” Isaiah 44:6
• On Christ “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
beginning and the End, the First and the End”
Rev1:8. On Christ Incarnation: “ And the Word
became flesh” John 1:14
Of One essence with the Father
The Son is from the same nature and
essence as the Father. If the Father is
God, the Son is also God BUT ONE
GODHEAD.
• On Christ: “Who being the brightness of
His (The Father) glory and the express
image (essence) of His (the Father)
person” Hebrew 1:3 Hebrew
Through Whom all things were made
This means that the Son is the Creator as
the Father is.
• On the Father: “In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth” Genesis
1:1
• On Christ: “All things were made
through Him, and without Him nothing
was made that was made” John 1:3
3) Other Biblical Proofs
Christ is God with respect to:
a) His relation with the Holy Spirit
b) Him being Omnipresent
c) Him being the Judge
d) Him being the Giver of life
a) Christ and the Holy Spirit
• The Father & the Son pour out the Holy Spirit
The Father: “I am the Lord your God… I will
pour out My Spirit on all flesh” Joel 2:27-29
The Son: “Therefore being exalted to the right
hand of God… He poured out this (Holy Spirit)
which you now see and hear” Acts 2:33
• The Father & the Son send the Holy Spirit
The Father: Ps.104:30
The Son: John 15:26
b) Christ; God is Omnipresent
• “For where two or three are gathered
together in My name, I am there in the midst of
them” Matthew 18:20
“No one has ascended to heaven but He who
came down from heaven, that is, the Spn of
Man who is in heaven” John 3:13
• John 14:23
• Gal.2:20
• Rev. 3:20
c) Christ; being the Judge
• God alone is the Judge:
“O’God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine
forth! Rise up, O’Judge of the earth” Ps.94:1,2
• Christ is the Judge:
“The Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the
living and the dead” 2Tim.4:1
• 2Cor.5:10
• Matt.16:27
• Rev. 22:12
d) Christ; Giver of life
• “In Him was life” John 1:4
• Christ raised the dead by His order:
- the raising of Jairus daughter, Mk.5:22,35-42
- the raising of the son of the widow of Nain,
Lk.7:11-17
- the raising of Lazarus, John 11
“For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to
them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will”,
John 5:21