The Importance of Jesus' Deity

Introduction

Everyone who professes to believe in Jesus should be able to advance arguments for God’s existence.

If God does not exist, Christianity does not exist.

Jesus claimed to be a specific deity. If he’s right, then He is God. If he’s wrong, then, we need to search for God again.

Christianity hinges upon certain foundational and historical claims: virgin birth, resurrection, deity of Jesus.

In a recent survey, 65% of Millennial Christians said that “if you are a good person, you will go to heaven.”

When we think of defending the faith or being witnesses of Jesus Christ, what are we defending or of what are we witnesses? Who is Jesus? More than half of young adults, in a recent Pew survey, now believe that astrology is a science.

Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, 28th Edition Chapter 8

*21 Εἶπεν οὖν πάλιν αὐτοῖς⸆·* ἐγὼ ὑπάγω καὶ ζητήσετέ με, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ ὑμῶν ἀποθανεῖσθε·* ὅπου ἐγὼ ὑπάγω ὑμεῖς οὐ δύνασθε ἐλθεῖν. 22 ἔλεγον οὖν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι· μήτι ἀποκτενεῖ ἑαυτόν, ὅτι λέγει·* ὅπου °ἐγὼ ὑπάγω ὑμεῖς οὐ δύνασθε ἐλθεῖν; 23 ⸂καὶ ἔλεγεν⸃ αὐτοῖς· ὑμεῖς ἐκ τῶν κάτω ἐστέ, ἐγὼ ἐκ τῶν ἄνω εἰμί·* ὑμεῖς ἐκ ⸉τούτου τοῦ κόσμου⸊ ἐστέ, ἐγὼ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου.* 24 εἶπον °οὖν ὑμῖν ὅτι ἀποθανεῖσθε ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ὑμῶν· ἐὰν γὰρ μὴ πιστεύσητε ⸆ ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι,* ἀποθανεῖσθε ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ὑμῶν

Jesus’ teaching about himself is: biblical (, Is.), historical (he claims exclusivity), universal (He is the only God there is), and personal (If you do not believe that I am).