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To: NYer
Then you deny that Jesus Christ is God?
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son ..."
20 posted on 12/23/2013 9:11:38 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son ..."

Christ’s divinity is shown over and over again in the New Testament. For example, in John 5:18 we are told that Jesus’ opponents sought to kill him because he "called God his Father, making himself equal with God."

In John 8:58, when quizzed about how he has special knowledge of Abraham, Jesus replies, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am"—invoking and applying to himself the personal name of God—"I Am" (Ex. 3:14). His audience understood exactly what he was claiming about himself. "So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple" (John 8:59).

“Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?” the blind man inquired. “… thou hast both seen him: and it is he that talketh with thee,” answered Jesus. (John 9:35)

The Council of Chalcedon established in AD360 that Jesus is fully man and fully God. The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human. He became truly man while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ is true God and true man.

38 posted on 12/23/2013 2:58:22 PM PST by NYer ("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)
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