Did Jesus Ever Claim to be God? (Part 2)

"Jesus never claimed to be God, 

that was an invention of the church centuries later!"

Last time we looked at how today's skeptics of Christianity lay claim to the fact that Jesus never claimed to be God and his disciples never thought of him that way, it wasn't until four hundred years later that Christians forced the deity of Christ into the Bible.

However, Jesus made repeated claims to be God.  He never came out and said "I am God," instead he used language much stronger.  We saw last time that Jesus claimed to possess all of the attributes God, including omniscience (all-knowing), omnipresence (everywhere-present), omnipotence (all-powerful), and eternality (always-existing).  

This time we will look at Jesus' claims of equality of God.  He didn't just claim to be sent by God, or empowered by God, but he claimed absolute equality with God.  These are some of Jesus' strongest claims of deity.  Check them out by clicking below:

Did Jesus Ever Claim to be God? (Part 1)

"Jesus never claimed to be God, 

that was an invention of the church centuries later!"

Many people skeptical of Christianity today ask a very poignant question: did Jesus ever claim to be God?  Christians seem to believe that Jesus was God, but why didn't he ever say he was?  

A popular theory today is that Jesus only thought of himself as a good teacher (a rabbi), as did his disciples, and it wasn't until the fourth century that Christians began exaggerating Jesus' claims to make it sound like he claimed to be God.  

How do we as Christians respond to this argument?  Simple - look at Jesus' statements.  Jesus claimed to be God in five different ways.  Follow the link below to find out the first way: