Christ’s Absolute Deity
The Biblical presentation of God in Christ (His omnipresence), observed specifically through many expressions of Christ’s absolute Deity that are especially found in the Gospel of John, which also addresses His eternal essence, is underscored in John 3:11-12:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, “We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you do not receive our witness. If I have told you of earthly things, and you do not believe, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?”
I have used this passage many times during the ministry of CTF referring to the eternality of the Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ! The bottom line on the occasion mentioned here is the presentation to Nicodemus, a ruler in the Temple, concerning Christ’s ultimate deity!
Is Jesus God in the flesh? Or is He simply an impostor? When the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy (I Timothy 3:16) that “God was manifested in the flesh… seen of angels…” etc., what did he mean? Was he irrefutably saying that Jesus was God, the Son? Was he somehow identifying Christ’s birth with the fulfillment of Isaiah 7:14… that the LORD Himself shall give us a sign; in that a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, who must be called Immanuel (God with us!)?
We immediately respond that it must have been “God” the Son that was manifest in the flesh. But Apostle Paul also tells in
1 Corinthians 8:6 that there is but one God, the Father, and one Lord Jesus Christ!
Is it the generally accepted teaching of Scriptures that Christ was the Father’s redemptive offering for the sins of the world? Yes! Moreover, God was in Christ (the incarnation) for the primary purpose of reconciling by His shed blood the world (including you and me) to Himself. Paul wrote to the Church in Galatia (4:4-6) that God sent forth His son born of a woman, born under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
To God is the glory, for by Him “we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” (Ephesians 1:7)
