The person of Christ ,His Diety

Deity of Christ

The Deity of Christ.

The biblical teaching is that Christ was fully human ,and yet is also fully God.

The word incarnation is used to refer to Jesus ,was God in human flesh , the act of God the son, toke to himself a human nature.

In the incarnation of Christ his human nature retains its distinctive characteristics, and his divine nature retains its distinctive characteristics, the two natures of Christ occur together in one person and one Subsistence ,The Greek word translated subsistence is the word hypostasis “being” , hence the human and divine natures in one person and is called a hypostatic union. This phrase simply means the union of Christ human and divine nature in one being.

Definition of SUBSISTENCE

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a (1) : real being : existence (2) : the condition of remaining in existence : continuation, persistence

b : an essential characteristic quality of something that exists

c : the character possessed by whatever is logically conceivable

Why is Jesus deity necessary?

Why not Noah,he walked with God Gen 6:9  These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Abraham ,The Gospel was preached to Abraham Gal 3:7 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

Enoch Heb 11:5

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.

Gen 5:24

Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

1)Only someone who is infinite God could bear the full penalty of sin of those who would believe in him. A finite creature could not.

2) Salvation is from the Lord

Jonah 2:9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving

will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the LORD!”
PG 1689 ESV

Deliverance belongs to Yahweh The word yeshu'a, or “salvation,” is used in the sense of deliverance.

PS 37:39 

39 The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD;
he is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
40 The LORD helps them and delivers them;
he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.

Rev 7: 9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

The scripture show, that no human man nor creature could ever save man- only God himself,

Does God only able to save man Contradict Sin sacrifice in the old testament. When the priest would make atonement for sin?

What was a sin sacrifice?

God required animal sacrifices to provide a temporary covering of sins which is why the sacrifices needed to be offered over and over. and to foreshadow the perfect and complete sacrifice of Jesus Christ Animal sacrifice is an important theme found throughout Scripture because “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness” (Hebrews 9:22).22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Animal sacrifices have stopped with Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was the ultimate sacrificial substitute once for all time (Hebrews 7:27)27 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. and is now the only mediator between God and humanity (1 Timothy 2:5).

Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

Heb 10

1 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christfn had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord:I will put my laws on their hearts,and write them on their minds,”17 then he adds,“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

The old testament was a repetitive system where as Christ sacrifice was once and for all.

What are some Scripture that shows Christ deity?

Jn 8:58-59 I'am passage (pg 2041) : same term as Ex 3:14

Rev 1:8 (God) in conjunction with rev 22:18 (Christ) alfa omega

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Word (Logos was Theos) God.

John1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

John 20:28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

Romans 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

Titus 2:13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began 3 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;

Who Commanded Paul ?

Acts 9:4 And falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” 5 And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. -15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.

Who is our Savior ? Jesus

Christ omnipotence : an agency or force of unlimited power

Calms the storm

Matt 8:” 26 And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. 27 And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”

Feeds the 5000+

Matt 14:19 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 20 And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. 21 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

John 2:7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom

11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

Christ omniscience:1: having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight

2: possessed of universal or complete knowledge

Mark2:8 And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts?

Jesus knew what they were thinking.

John 1:48 Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!

John 6:64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

John 16:29 His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech! 30 Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”

Christ Omnipresence:present in all places at all times

Matt 18:. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Matt 28:20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Looking forward to the establishment of the church.

Only Jesus who had a human nature and a divine nature could possibly do all that he did and be able to bear the burden of sin for the world.

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world,fn that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.