In fact many would say he is just an other human being with some extraordinary powers to heal the sick, to cast out demons and to do miracles. But he is more than that. What actually makes a mere human being like us with the same kind of flesh and blood to be called Son of The most high God and God himself in the human flesh? That's again a mystery that many won't understand and many won't agree with.
At any given point of time in the human history never or ever been a person like Jesus, We could see people doing miracles and doing things like what Jesus did, but there are many other aspects that confirm only Jesus is God and he is not a mere human being or some guru or any other kind of thoughts that many would have.
To clear this doubt, lets consider the question of what should be person like Jesus, who says he is God - Should be. To consider him as God.
1. What he said has to match with what he did.
He is the one and the only person to come alive after death - The resurrection is one single point of reference that differentiates Jesus with any other human being. Why?
Because there are prophecies about the coming messiah who would suffer and die for our sins. If Christ has not died on the Cross and was not raised from the death, we are still in our sins.
He said,
At any given point of time in the human history never or ever been a person like Jesus, We could see people doing miracles and doing things like what Jesus did, but there are many other aspects that confirm only Jesus is God and he is not a mere human being or some guru or any other kind of thoughts that many would have.
To clear this doubt, lets consider the question of what should be person like Jesus, who says he is God - Should be. To consider him as God.
1. What he said has to match with what he did.
He is the one and the only person to come alive after death - The resurrection is one single point of reference that differentiates Jesus with any other human being. Why?
Because there are prophecies about the coming messiah who would suffer and die for our sins. If Christ has not died on the Cross and was not raised from the death, we are still in our sins.
He said,
John 14:1Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
The Way to the Father
14 “Your heart must not be troubled. Believe[a] in God; believe also in Me
John 5:39-40Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
39 You pore over[a] the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me. 40 And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.
John 10:30 NIV
I and the Father are one."
John 2:19 NIV
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."
Anyone in this world can say, that he is the God - Even we could see in Mental Hospital. But there needs to be a substantial evidence and proof for what one says he is and what he is, Jesus by all means and by all ways was the only person proclaimed as God and was God. He was sinless, as like any other who professed as messiah or God, he was pure and holy, there was no part of sin in him. He live a perfect life, obeyed to the father to the point of death. No one ever did what he did, no one ever will be able to do what he did on the cross, no one will do it. He has done it for us, because he loves us.
2. The second thing that confirms that he is the God was with the reference that other people give:
The Bible is a one story line all pointing towards the Messiah - Jesus Christ. The Bible is the single most powerful source for the reference. Each and every author writes as the Spirit inspired them in their own unique style and experience, yet the main aim and the theme never changes. Look at how Paul describes Jesus as when he went to Athens:
Acts 17:16-21Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
Paul in Athens
16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was troubled within him when he saw that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who worshiped God and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. 18 Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual[a] trying to say?”
Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.[b]
19 They took him and brought him to the Areopagus,[c] and said, “May we learn about this new teaching you’re speaking of? 20 For what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these ideas mean.” 21 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.
While writing to Colossians, Paul says -
Colossians 1:15
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Paul himself was a persecutor of the Church and Christians. His Journey to Damascus and his conversion on the road to Damascus was an important aspect for the New Testament, as more than 50% of the new testament was written by Paul by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Now Paul's Journey towards Damascus was for a different motive, but God knows them, who searches him with the whole purpose of knowing God and to proclaim his word, God made this Paul to write his experience in knowing who the true God is:
1 Corinthians 15:9-11Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me. 11 Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.
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