Part 5 - The Synoptic Gospels and Acts - Jesus Claims and Receives What Belongs to God
This series works through the biblical case for the deity of Jesus Christ across eight posts, moving from the shape of the argument itself to the Old Testament foundations, the four Gospels, Acts, the epistles, Revelation, and finally the historic denials of the doctrine.
Part 5 of eight in the series Jesus is God: A Series on the Deity of Christ.
A common objection holds that the deity of Christ is a late development, present in John but absent from the earlier Synoptic Gospels. The objection does not survive contact with the text.
Matthew opens by naming Jesus Immanuel, God with us. Mark records Him forgiving sins in the second chapter, and the scribes react exactly as monotheists should — who can forgive sins but God alone? Jesus does not correct them; He proves the claim. He accepts worship on the water, answers the high priest with the divine I AM, and claims all authority in heaven and on earth. The Synoptics make the same claim as John; they simply make it by narration rather than by prologue.
This post covers the Synoptic material and the two decisive texts in Acts.
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Raised in a Christian home, I came to faith later in life. A family crisis in 2019 drove me to study Scripture deeply, and by 2021 I answered my calling to ministry and teaching God's Word.
