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Jesus Christ as God
(From Forerunner Commentary)

John 1:3  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Paul adds in Colossians 1:16, "For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him." These verses reveal the Word, who became Jesus Christ, as the agent of creation, performing the work necessary to carry it out. He is not only God but with Another who is also God. "Through Him" implies that this other Being authorized the works of creation carried out by the Word. Does this not indicate two distinct Personalities, both called God by inspiration, working in harmony to accomplish a work? John W. Ritenbaugh God Is . . . What?

John 5:17  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) This verse clearly identifies two of the persons within the Godhead: the Father and the Son. The Jews understood what He was driving at; they knew He was saying, "I am God." Jesus Christ was identifying Himself as within Elohim. The Jews understood this, and they were ready to jump on Him for blasphemy. John W. Ritenbaugh The Nature of God: Elohim

John 17:5  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Whatever this glory is that He asks to be restored, it is something He did not have as a human, but He did have when He truly was fully God. He had it before He was born of Mary, did not have it during His physical life, and had it returned to Him upon His resurrection and ascension. In the New Testament, glory is used in the sense of anything that brings honor and praise upon a person. It can be one's works, attitude, manner of living, skill, strength, wisdom, power, appearance, or status. Some or all of these could be included within the framework of Christ's request. The Bible does not clarify or expand on what He specifically meant, but whatever it was, it was lacking in Him while He was human. Therefore He could not have been "fully man and fully God." John W. Ritenbaugh Fully Man and Fully God?

John 17:5  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) The first thing Christ does in this prayer is establish that He was with the Father. In this case, the word with means "beside" or "alongside of." This agrees with John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word [Christ], and the Word was with [along side of] God, and the Word was God." John W. Ritenbaugh The Nature of God: Elohim

1 Corinthians 10:4  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) The Bible identifies the "Rock" as Christ! How surprising to those who have assumed that the God of the Old Testament was the one the New Testament calls "the Father"! And so the "LORD" who spoke and was seen of men was always the one who became Jesus Christ. For no mortal man has ever seen or heard the Father! (John 1:18; 5:37)! What It Means to Be Born Again

Philippians 2:6-7  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Phillips renders this, "For he, who had always been God by nature, did not cling to his privileges as God's equal, but stripped Himself of every advantage by consenting to be a slave by nature and being born a man." Moffatt translates, "Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God, but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise and appearing in human form." As in other scriptures, He was God, divine by nature, with—beside, accompanying—a different personality also called God! John W. Ritenbaugh God Is . . . What?

Hebrews 2:9  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) All mankind has sinned (Romans 3:23), and "the wages of sin is [eternal] death" (Romans 6:23). The Logos became a mortal man so He could die to pay the death penalty for the sins of all mankind. Christ was able to do this because His human life was far more valuable than the lives of all human beings put together—He was God incarnate—GOD made flesh (John 1:14). What It Means to Be Born Again

 

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