Your point is well taken, that Paul and John do not spend a lot of time on Jesus Christ as creator God. Nevertheless they do affirm it, and I see nothing in scripture that discounts it.

What I want to show in this series is two things. One, that there is sufficient evidence in scripture to show that the New Testament writers understood Jesus to be God, and that this was backed up by many early witnesses in the Church long before the Church of Nicea.

Each post, taken on its own is not necessarily going to be enough to wow or convince anyone, but when together as a body of evidence, the idea of Christ as God becomes irrefutable.

This was a topic that was of utmost importance to the early church, they wrestled mightily with it, but they also came to agreement on it.

I will talk in a later post about why I find this to be such a vital concept.

One further question for you though. What did you mean my “God’s requirements for us are simple…”?

Mike Bell

To be brief and to the point, while the author of John and to a lesser extent Paul, seem to believe Jesus Christ is the creator God, to say they fully communicate it is an overstatement. Feel free to look up the Christology article in wikipedia. It it was fully communicated there wouldn’t be the need for so much debating. And with out the work of later theologians the references to Christ as God, or the Holy spirit, or logos wouldn’t mean much. I think God’s requirements for us are simple and don’t require 300 theologians to explain. It may be true, and I enjoy these sorts of discussions but I think its more the realm of opinions of people.

Thanks for your yet unpublished comment. I have not had a chance to respond to it, and would like to post your comment and my response at the same time. Thanks for your patience.

Mike Bell