“I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.” — Isaiah 43:11
He is the Lord. If there is no savior beside him, if there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12), then that means that Jesus Christ must be God himself. Jesus said as much in John 10:30 and 17:11 that he and the Father are one.
To the elect this may seem obvious, but it bears repeating because every false religion has to attack the doctrine of the trinity and the divinity of Christ.
“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life (1st John 5:12).” It really is that simple. If you believe that Jesus is God in the flesh and that his sinless life and sacrificial death atoned for your sins, then you have the Son. But if you deny this, if Jesus was just a good man, or a good teacher, or his death was final and he did not rise from the dead, then you have not the Son, and you have not life.
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures….” — 1st Corinthians 15:1-4
Selah.
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