In this relatively short post, I will present a rather simple and straight forward way of proving the Deity of Christ.

The Holy Bible plainly states that salvation is a work that is impossible for a mere human being to accomplish, which is why God must be the One to save individuals from their sins:

“And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, ‘Then who can be saved?’Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.’” Mark 10:26-27 Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The inspired Scriptures make it clear that no human is righteous in God’s sight as to escape judgment, which is why God chooses to forgive and redeem mankind from their transgressions. Otherwise, God would have removed every creature from before his sight:   

“If You should keep iniquities, O Yah, O Lord, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness, That You may be feared… O Israel, wait for Yahweh; For with Yahweh there is lovingkindness, And with Him is abundant redemption. And it is He who will redeem Israel From all his iniquities.” Psalm 130:3-4, 7-8 Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

And yet Jesus does what is humanly impossible, namely, save mankind from their sins and reconcile all creation to God by his vicarious death on the cross:

“even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:28 RSV

“Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, ‘Take, eat; this is my body.’ And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.’” Matthew 26:26-28 RSV

These next texts explain how it is that Jesus is able to save people from their sins, even though this is something that only God can do:

“‘she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus (Yeshua [“YHWH is Salvation”]), for he will save his people from their sins.’ All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: ‘Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emman′u-el’ (which means, God [ho Theos] with us).” Matthew 1:21-23 RSV

Note that the angel explains why Joseph is to give the male Child the name Jesus, i.e., because the Child has come to save his people from their sins. What may be lost upon the readers who do not know the meaning of Jesus’ Hebrew name is that Yeshua means “Yahweh is salvation.”

In other words, the reason Jesus is given this name is because he is YHWH who has come to redeem his people from all their iniquities!

And:

“He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for IN HIM all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created THROUGH HIM and FOR HIM.He IS before all things, and IN HIM all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.For in him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.” Colossians 1:13-20 RSV

Astonishingly, this inspired text identifies God’s beloved Son as the One who personally created and sustains the entire creation for himself, which helps us appreciate why he was the One who then came to reconcile creation. I.e., the very One who brought all creation into being is the same One who then went ahead to reconcile that very same creation that he had made for his own possession.

The foregoing explains why Jesus does what is humanly impossible to do, and which God alone is capable of doing. Christ is able to redeem all creation and forgive sinners because he is YHWH God Almighty, the very Creator and Sustainer of all creation, who humbled himself to become a human being through the blessed and holy Virgin.  

I now come to my next point.

The prophetic writings attest that the only God who is able to save sinners, and the only One who actually did save Israel, is YHWH Almighty. This is why YHWH exhorts all the nations to turn to him since they have no other god that can save them:

“‘You are My witnesses,’ declares Yahweh, ‘And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no god formed, And there will be none after Me. I, even I, am Yahweh, And there is no savior besides Me… I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.’” Isaiah 43:10-11, 25 LSB

“Declare and draw near with your case; Indeed, let them consult together. Who has made this heard from of old? Who has long since declared it? Is it not I, Yahweh? And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except Me. Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:21-22 LSB

“Yet I have been Yahweh your God Since the land of Egypt; And you were not to know any god except Me, And there is no savior besides Me.” Hosea 13:4 LSB

Remarkably, the Apostle Peter proclaimed that the risen Jesus is the only Person and name that are capable of saving anyone in all the earth!

“On the morrow their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest and Ca′iaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, ‘By what power or by what name did you do this?’Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, ‘Rulers of the people and elders,if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed, be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well. This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but which has become the head of the corner.And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.’ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they wondered; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus. But seeing the man that had been healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition.” Acts 4:5-14

Seeing that the Apostles were monotheistic Jews preaching to other monotheistic Jews, they would have known from the Hebrew Bible that it is YHWH and his name alone that is able to save anyone throughout the world. Therefore, if Jesus is a mere creature than his disciples would have been guilty of blaspheming the God of Israel by ascribing to a creature an exclusively unique divine function, which would be idolatry.  

What this shows is that the only way that the Apostles could have attributed such divine characteristics and abilities to Christ is if they did not think Jesus was merely human. Rather, they must have come to believe that the Son is indeed YHWH Almighty who became flesh, the very God of Israel that became Man for the redemption of humanity, God’s beloved Son who is essentially one with his Father in nature.

Lo and behold, that is precisely what the holy Apostle proclaimed in his second inspired epistle to believers!

“Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ (tou Theou hemon kai Soteros ‘Iesou Christou)… so there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (tou Kyriou hemon kai Soteros ‘Iesou Christou).” 2 Peter 1:1, 11 RSV

“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (tou Kyriou hemon kai Soteros ‘Iesou Christou). To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.” 2 Peter 3:18 RSV

Peter not only identifies Jesus as the Lord, God and Savior of all believers, who possesses an everlasting kingdom, the inspired Apostle even concludes his letter by ascribing a doxology to the risen Christ!

Seeing that doxologies are ascriptions of praise given to YHWH Alone, this again reinforces the fact that Jesus’ very own Jewish followers started worshiping God’s Son as the human incarnation of YHWH Almighty.

There’s simply no way around this divinely revealed fact.  

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