Jesus Is God

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

The Son is born in time, yet the child bears the titles Mighty God and Everlasting Father.

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Matthew identifies Jesus as the fulfillment of Immanuel: God with us.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

God’s eternal Word is fully divine and belongs to God’s own identity.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

The incarnation is not one God-person entering an unrelated man. God’s own Word becomes genuine flesh.

9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Seeing Jesus reveals the Father because the Father dwells and works in Him.

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

Paul summarizes reconciliation as God acting in Christ to bring the world back to Himself.

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

The invisible God becomes knowable in the visible image, Jesus Christ.

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

All the fullness of deity dwells bodily in Christ, not one portion of God.

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

The mystery of godliness identifies the incarnation as God’s own manifestation in flesh.

And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

Thomas addresses the risen Jesus directly as ‘my Lord and my God,’ and Jesus accepts the confession.

17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

The divine First and Last is the One who genuinely died and now lives forever, joining deity and saving humanity in Jesus.