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Presenter: Damaine Franklin
BWAC Bible Study Series.
JESUS IS GOD
DEFENDING THE
CLAIM
Early Christians
Taught Jesus is God

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Jesus is god: Defending the Claim
Early Christians Taught Jesus is God
Polycarp AD 69-155:
• Nationality Greek
• Disciple of John the Revelator
• Bishop of the church in Smyrna
• Burnt alive as a martyr at age 86
years in Rome.
• Rev was written around AD 95
Quotes from Polycarp’s Writings:
• “build you up in faith and truth...and
to us with you, and to all those under
heaven who will yet believe in our
Lord and God Jesus Christ”
Jesus is god: Defending the Claim
Early Christians Believed & Taught Jesus is God
Ignatius AD 50-117:
• Nationality: Syrian
• Student of Polycarp the Disciple of
John the apostle
• Bishop of the church in Antioch
• Killed by lions authorized by
emperor Trajan of Rome at age 67
Quotes from Ignatius Writings:
• “and of Jesus Christ our God”
• “through the blood of God”
• “when God appeared in human form to
bring the newness of eternal life”
• “I glorify Jesus Christ, the God who made
you so wise”

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Early Christians Taught Jesus is God
Justin Martyr AD 100-165
• Nationality: Samaritan
• A Christian apologist and
exponent of the divine word. He
also argues with roman emperors
Antonius & Aurelius to abandon
the persecution of the church.
Quotes from Justin Martyr Writings:
• “Permit me first to recount the prophecies,
which I wish to do in order to prove that Christ
is called both God and Lord of hosts”
• For if you had understood what has been written
by the prophets, you would not have denied that
He was God, Son of the only, unbegotten,
unutterable God.
Jesus is god: Defending the Claim
Early Christians Taught Jesus is God
Melito of Sardis AD 180
• Nationality: Jewish by birth
• Bishop of the church in Sardis
• Successor of the bishop during
seven letters to the churches
• Died AD 180
Quotes from Melito’s Writings:
• “He that hung up the earth in space was Himself
hanged up; He that fixed the heavens was fixed with
nails; He that bore up the earth was born up on a
tree; the Lord of all was subjected to ignominy in a
naked body—God put to death!...[I]n order that He
might not be seen, the luminaries turned away, and
the day became darkened—because they slew God”

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Early Christians Taught Jesus is God
Irenaeus of Lyons AD 130-202
• Nationality: Greek
• Bishop of the church in Lugdunum
Gaul France
• He acted as mediator between
churches in Asia minor
• Died AD 202, 72 years
Quotes from Irenaeus Writings:
• “He received testimony from all that He
was very man, and that He was very God,
from the Father, from the Spirit, from
angels, from the creation itself, from men,
from apostate spirits and demons”
Jesus is god: Defending the Claim
Early Christians Taught Jesus is God
Clement of Alexandria
• Nationality Greek
• Life AD 150-215
• Christian missionary, theologian
and philosopher who taught at
the Catechetical School of
Alexandria.
Quotes from Clements’s Writings:
• “This Word, then, the Christ, the cause of
both our being at first (for He was in God)
and of our well-being, this very Word has
now appeared as man, He alone being
both, both God and man”

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Early Christians Taught Jesus is God
Tertullian AD 150-225
• Nationality: Carthaginian a Roman
province now in Tunisia
• Christian author and apologist
• Tertullian has been called "the
father of Latin Christianity and "the
founder of Western theology."
Quotes from Tertullian’s Writings:
• “Bear always in mind that this is the rule
of faith which I profess; by it I testify that
the Father, and the Son, and the Spirit are
inseparable from each other”
• “Thus Christ is Spirit of Spirit, and God of
God”
Jesus is god: Defending the Claim
Early Christians Taught Jesus is God
Hippolytus AD 170-235
• Nationality: Roman
• Christian Theologian
• He was a disciple of Irenaeus,
who was a disciple of Polycarp,
who was a disciple of apostle
John.
Quotes from Hippolytus Writings:
• “The Logos alone of this God is from God
himself; wherefore also the Logos is God, being
the substance of God”
• “Let us believe then, dear brethren, according to
the tradition of the apostles, that God the Word
came down from heaven, (and entered) into the
holy Virgin Mary”

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Early Christians Taught Jesus is God
Origen AD 185-254
• Nationality: Alexandrian
• Christian Theologian and scholar
• He was tortured for his faith
during the Decian persecution in
250 and died three to four years
later from his injuries.
Quotes from Origen’s Writings:
• “Jesus Christ...in the last times, divesting
Himself (of His glory), became a man, and
was incarnate although God, and while
made a man remained the God which He
was”
The Old Testament
Testifies That Jesus is God

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The Old Testament Testifies That Jesus is God
Jesus is god: Defending the Claim
The Old Testament Testifies That Jesus is God

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The Old Testament Testifies That Jesus is God
Branch
Stem
Roots
Jesus Christ Inception
Jesus Christ
Conception
Jesus Christ
Manifestation
Jesus is god: Defending the Claim
The Old Testament Testifies That Jesus is God
Isa 35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your
God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and
save you.
Isa 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall
be unstopped.
Isa 35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb
sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

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The Old Testament Testifies That Jesus is God
Isaiah 40:3 The voice of him that
crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye
the way of the LORD, make
straight in the desert a highway for
our God.
Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem
Ephratah, though thou be little among
the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee
shall he come forth unto me that is to
be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth
have been from of old, from
everlasting.
The NEW Testament
Testifies That Jesus is God

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The New Testament Testifies That Jesus is God
Mat 22:41-46 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked
them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto
him, The Son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in
spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on
my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call
him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word,
neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Jesus is god: Defending the Claim
The New Testament Testifies That Jesus is God
Joh 20:27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold
my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be
not faithless, but believing.
Joh 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my
God.

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The New Testament Testifies That Jesus is God
Act 20:28 Take heed therefore unto
yourselves, and to all the flock, over
the which the Holy Ghost hath
made you overseers, to feed the
church of God, which he hath
purchased with his own blood.
Tit 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope,
and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Jesus is god: Defending the Claim
The New Testament Testifies That Jesus is God
1Cor 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the
temple of God, and that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple
of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple
of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1John 4:13 Hereby know we that
we dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his
Spirit.
Our Bodies become the temple of God the moment we
receive the Spirit of Jesus Christ Within us

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The New Testament Testifies That Jesus is God
Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Col 1:19 For it pleased the Father that
in him should all fullness dwell;
Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which
is the head of all principality and power:
God Was Manifest In The Flesh

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God Was Manifest In The Flesh
1Ti 3:16 And without controversy
great is the mystery of godliness: God
was manifest in the flesh, justified in the
Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto
the Gentiles, believed on in the world,
received up into glory.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
beheld his glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and
truth.
Jesus is god: Defending the Claim
God Was Manifest In The Flesh Explained
2 atoms of Hydrogen +
1 atom of Oxygen =
Water H2O
Represents God a Spirit
Empty glass = Body
Represents the biological
genetic ancestral traits of the
messiah: the root, stem &
branch of Jesse
Water in the cup doesn't
change its properties
In Jesus dwells the fullness
of the godhead bodily not
some of God but all.

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God Was Manifest In The Flesh Explained
Electricity: Unseen
with naked eye
Represents God a
Spirit
Light bulb without electricity
Represents the biological
genetic ancestral traits of the
messiah: the root, stem &
branch of Jesse
The light bulb manifest
electricity in the form of light &
heat: Jesus is the physical
manifestation of the of the
invisible God. The light of the
world