Is Jesus really God?

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Is Jesus really God, or was he a created being like angels and man?

Jesus was and is Deity.  In Him dwelt all the fullness of the godhead bodily according to Colossians 2:9. The relationship he sustained to the Father was so close that He could say when Phillip asked Him to show the Father, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?  He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?  The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.  Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake” (John 14:9-11).

Jesus’ person, however, is not the Father, but that of the Son.  He was born both of the Holy Spirit and the seed of woman, Mary.  Luke 1:35 records the words of the angel Gabriel to Mary.  “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.”  We refer to this as the incarnation.

We read in John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”  These verse declare the Deity of Jesus.  Some say that this text does not indicate that.  However, how could Jesus be both a created being and also be the one who made all things and that without whom nothing that was made could have been made?  If Jesus were a created being then this passage states that He would have had to make Himself.  Such would not be possible.

In John 8:58, 59, Jesus says that Abraham rejoiced to see His day and was glad. The Pharisees asked Him how He could be older than Abraham. Jesus reply was as follows: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”  This statement was a claim to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  The very name “Yahweh” means in Hebrew, “I am.”  This is what God declared to Moses upon Mount Horeb when Moses asked God’s name, “I am that I am” (Exodus 3:14).  The Pharisees sought to stone Jesus for blasphemy. “Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.” They understood Jesus’ claim.

We read in Acts 20:28 that it was “God” that purchased the church with “His own” blood.  Jesus’ blood was the blood that was shed on the cross (1 Peter 1:19).  The inescapable conclusion is that Jesus is God. It was also the understanding of the New Testament writers that Jesus, in His person, held the attributes of God, Lord, and Savior.  In 2 Peter 1:1 we read in the King James version, “Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.”  This indicates that Jesus is both God and Savior.  In the Greek language, any time you have a definite article used before two nouns joined by the conjunction, those two nouns refer to the same person. We also have this construction in other parts of the New Testament.  In 2 Thessalonians 1:12 we have the same construction.  We read there in the KJV and ASV, “our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Notice Titus 2:13, “the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.”  The great God is the Savior Jesus Christ.