Darby
Active Member
Jesus Christ is God; this is proved:
1. By the utterances of the prophets.
2. By the testimony of His heavenly Father.
3. By His own testimony.
4. By the teaching of the apostles.
5. By the teaching of the early Church.
The prophets repeatedly declared that the future Redeemer would be God.
Isaias calls Him Emmanuel, “God with us” (7:14), and says: “God Himself will come and will save you”.
Daniel speaks of Him as “the Saint of saints,” and Jeremiah says this about who Jesus is.
In His days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is His name by which He shall be called: The Lord Our Righteousness.
Jeremiah 23:6
When Christ speaks of Himself as Son of God, it is not in the pagan sense of representing Himself as one of the gods (as Caligula, Heliogabalus, and others did), nor is it in the pantheistic sense of describing Himself as a manifestation of God, nor in the general sense in which every just man may be called a child of God. Our Saviour described Himself as the only-begotten Son of God, being one with the Father.
Both Titus 2:13 and 2 Peter 1:1 feature the same pattern, whereby “God” and “Savior” are used to describe Jesus.
13 Awaiting and looking for the [fulfillment, the realization of our] blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One), Titus 2:13.
SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle (special messenger) of Jesus Christ, to those who have received (obtained an equal privilege of) like precious faith with ourselves in and through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: 2 Peter 1:1.
1. By the utterances of the prophets.
2. By the testimony of His heavenly Father.
3. By His own testimony.
4. By the teaching of the apostles.
5. By the teaching of the early Church.
The prophets repeatedly declared that the future Redeemer would be God.
Isaias calls Him Emmanuel, “God with us” (7:14), and says: “God Himself will come and will save you”.
Daniel speaks of Him as “the Saint of saints,” and Jeremiah says this about who Jesus is.
In His days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is His name by which He shall be called: The Lord Our Righteousness.
Jeremiah 23:6
When Christ speaks of Himself as Son of God, it is not in the pagan sense of representing Himself as one of the gods (as Caligula, Heliogabalus, and others did), nor is it in the pantheistic sense of describing Himself as a manifestation of God, nor in the general sense in which every just man may be called a child of God. Our Saviour described Himself as the only-begotten Son of God, being one with the Father.
Both Titus 2:13 and 2 Peter 1:1 feature the same pattern, whereby “God” and “Savior” are used to describe Jesus.
13 Awaiting and looking for the [fulfillment, the realization of our] blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One), Titus 2:13.
SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle (special messenger) of Jesus Christ, to those who have received (obtained an equal privilege of) like precious faith with ourselves in and through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: 2 Peter 1:1.
