God With Us

From beginning to end, the Bible presents Jesus as God:

• The prophet Isaiah, writing six and a half  centuries before Jesus' birth, attributed to Him the names "Mighty God" and "Everlasting Father" (Isaiah 9:6).
• An Old Testament prayer praising the Creator God, Yahweh (LORD), is addressed to Jesus in the New Testament (Psalm 102:25-7; Hebrews 1:6-12).
• One of the names assigned to Jesus at His birth was "'Immanuel' which is translated, 'God with us'" (Matthew 1:21-23).
• Jesus Himself allowed Himself to be worshipped as "'My Lord and my God'" (John 20:28-29).

I am trying. . . to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him; 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say.  A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.  He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell.  You must make your choice.  Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.  You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.  But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.  He has not left that open to us.  He did not intend to.      Mere Christianity, 55-56

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