Acts Through 2 Thessalonians
Below are scriptures from the above books related to the page: "Is Jesus God?" Links to studies are provided for many scriptures that discuss the scriptures. Scriptures thought to mean that God's Holy Spirit is a person of God may also be included.
Acts 2:16-21
See our study: Did Peter Apply God’s Holy Name To Jesus?
Acts 2:22
See our study: Jesus of Nazareth and God
Acts 3:15
Acts 4:12
Acts 10:34-36
Acts 13:2
Acts 17:29 - "Godhead" (King James Version) in this verse refers to only one person, and Jesus is distinguished from this "Godhead" in Acts 17:31. See our study, "Godhead" in the King James Version.
Acts 20:28
Some ancient manuscripts do not have the word "God" in this verse, but rather "Lord", which could mean that "Lord" was changed to "God" by copyists. Regardless, common sense, as well as scripture, tells us that God is a spirit being, and that his bodily substance has no blood. Thus, scripturally, we should conclude that the blood is that which is from God, as given to His Son. It was the "one God" of 1 Corinthians 8:6 who prepared the body of His Son (Hebrews 10:10), so that his Son carried God's own blood. Thus, some translations read similar to this:
Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son. — New Revised Standard Version.
See our study: Whose Blood?
Romans 1:20 -- There is definitely nothing in this scripture that presents the God of Abraham as being more than one person, or three persons, or that Jesus is a person of Jehovah. See our study, "Godhead" in the King James Version.
Romans 5:8
Romans 6:23
Romans 8:10
Romans 9:5
Romans 10:9
Only one person is being spoken of here as "God". Jesus is not spoken of as "God", but rather Jesus is the one whom "God" raised from the dead.
Romans 14:10,11
1 Corinthians 8:6
Jesus is definitely not called "God" in this verse. Indeed, he is definitely shown not to be the "one God" of/from whom are all, since Jesus is declared to the "one Lord" through whom are all. If he is the "one God" of/from whom are all, then he cannot be the "one Lord" through whom are all, and vice versa.
1 Corinthians 10:4
1 Corinthians 10:13
2 Corinthians 5:17-19
2 Corinthians 4:3-5
2 Corinthians 5:21
Only one person is presented being God in this verse. That one person is the One who prepared a body for Jesus to offer for sin. -- Hebrews 10:5,10,12.
2 Corinthians 13:14
Galatians 2:20
Ephesians 3:20
Ephesians 4:7,8
Philippians 2:5-11
This is similar to "image of God". "God" refers to only one person, and Jesus was, before he became flesh, with the "external appearance," or likeness, of His God, having a spiritual bodily glory and might similar to that of his God and Father. In the verses following, this is contrasted with days of his flesh (Hebrews 5:7), when he has the external appearance of being a man with sinful flesh, as though subjected in servitude under a bondage of corruption as mankind descended from Adam who are condemned in Adam, and under the bondage of corruption.
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Philippians 3:20,21
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Philippians 3:20,21
Colossians 1:15
We do not find Jesus referred as "God", but rather we that Jesus is in this verse referred to as the "image of the invisible" and the firstborn of God's creatures. "God" is presented as being one person, and Jesus is the image of that one person. Nothing here says that his being an image of the one person who is God means that Jesus is a person of the "one God" of whom he is the image. Actually, common sense should tell us that this distinguishes Jesus from being "God" of whom he is the image. Again, one has to ignore what is actually there in favor of creating many assumptions so as to force the idea that Jesus is God Almighty or that he is a person of the "one God" into the verse.
We do not find Jesus referred as "God", but rather we that Jesus is in this verse referred to as the "image of the invisible" and the firstborn of God's creatures. "God" is presented as being one person, and Jesus is the image of that one person. Nothing here says that his being an image of the one person who is God means that Jesus is a person of the "one God" of whom he is the image. Actually, common sense should tell us that this distinguishes Jesus from being "God" of whom he is the image. Again, one has to ignore what is actually there in favor of creating many assumptions so as to force the idea that Jesus is God Almighty or that he is a person of the "one God" into the verse.
Colossians 1:27
Colossians 2:8-10
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