Everything about Christianity is determined by the person and work of Jesus Christ. Christianity owes its life, substance and character in every detail to Christ. That’s why we call our faith Christianity. The unalterable foundation of Christianity is that Jesus was fully God. If you don’t believe that you can’t call yourself a Christian. Jesus is not man becoming God but God incarnate, coming into human flesh, coming into it from the outside. His life is the highest and holiest entering in at the lowliest door.
John 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.
John 1:14 – And the Word became 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.
Titus 2:13 – Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:20 – And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
During his life Jesus Christ claimed deity for himself. The deity of Christ is woven into the fabric of everything he said and did as related in the Bible. Jesus displayed God’s authority by forgiving sin, healing the sick, raising the dead and casting out demons. Jesus demonstrated He possessed God’s attributes by knowing what was in people’s minds and what was to come in the future. In all of His actions Jesus showed Himself to be God.
Colossians 2:9 – In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.
John 8:58 – Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly , I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
Matthew 4:10 – Worship the lord your God, and serve Him only.
Hebrews 1:3 (Jesus) – Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.