by Robert Schmid

Created on: February 12, 2009

WHY IS JESUS CHRIST DEITY?

The divinity of Jesus Christ has been, affirmed, denied and debated ever since the day He was born 2000 years ago. The change from the Old Testament monotheistic understanding of God, to a God in heaven and one on earth, was traumatic for many, and unacceptable, even to this day, to the Jewish religious leadership and community. In addition, there have been and still are to this day, both individuals and groups, who deny the divinity of Jesus Christ. Some affirm His divinity, but deny that He is God, an oxymoron.

The question, who is Jesus, was first asked by Jesus Himself when He asked his disciples: "Who do men say that the Son of man is?" They said to Him, "Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He then became more specific and personal when He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

Simon Peter, under the inspiration of God the Father and the confirmation of Jesus, gave the correct and complete answer, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

This answer could have and should have been the end to the question, "Who is Jesus? But it was not! Why not? "Because the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made." In the Garden of Eden there was the tree of life, representing God, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, representing Satan. God is always truth. Satan is always a mixture of truth and falsehood, which is syncretism that God hates.

As we know, Adam and Eve succumbed to the temptation of Satan who presented them with a mixture of truth and lies, and they, down to you and me, thereby became the begotten children of their spiritual father Satan.

4000 years later, in "the fullness of time," the Word of God BECAME the Son of God,

by being born of the wife of God, Mary, and was named Jesus, by God His Father. When Jesus was 30 years old, He was baptized by John the Baptist, not because He needed to repent of sin, but to be an example to mankind that they needed to repent of sin and receive God's gift of the Holy Spirit, and thereby reject Satan's begettal, and become the begotten children of God. God the Father expressed His approval by visibly showing the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descending upon Jesus, and audibly speaking that:

"This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

After His temptation by, and victory over Satan, Jesus raised up the true Church of God on the day of Pentecost. Shortly thereafter, Satan

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