Part 6 - The Epistles and the Deity of Christ
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 6 of eight in the series Jesus is God: A Series on the Deity of Christ.
The letters of the New Testament were written to congregations, not to theologians, and they assume the deity of Christ rather than argue for it. That is what makes them such powerful evidence. Paul does not defend the claim that Jesus is God over all; he mentions it in passing while making a point about Israel. The Philippians hymn — probably pre-Pauline, and therefore among the earliest Christian material we possess — describes Christ as existing in the form of God and receiving the universal knee-bowing that Isaiah reserved for YHWH.
Doctrine that appears in passing is doctrine already settled. This post works through eleven passages across the epistles.
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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.
