Is Jesus God the Son?

From: The Gospel Messenger: Volume 36 (1921)

• 2 min. read • grade level: 6

THIS question is the supreme test today. It is not sufficient to ask, Is Jesus the Son of God? for it is common now-a-days to teach that Shakespeare, Byron, Charles Bradlaugh, Colonel Ingersoll, the drunkard reeling out of the public house, the murderer in the condemned cell, are all sons of God. Such a statement is as false as it is blasphemous.

But ask a plain YES or NO to this question,

IS JESUS GOD THE SON?

If the answer is NO, give a very wide berth to the religion that can so reply. Rest assured that it is of the devil, however specious and plausible its teachings.

Let the following Scriptures speak for themselves on this point.

"The Word was God" (John 1:1¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)).

"All things were made by Him" (John 1:3³All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:3)).

"The Word was made flesh" (John 1:14¹⁴And 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. (John 1:14)).

"John bare witness of Him... and bare record that this is the, Son of God" (John 1:15, 34¹⁵John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. (John 1:15)
³⁴And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. (John 1:34)).

Let these Scriptures shatter forever the lie that Jesus is not God the Son. Here it tells us the Word—a divine Person—was God, and the Creator of everything. That being the case He could never cease to be God. Next, we are told that this Divine and Glorious Person became a man—Jesus, the Son of God. No wonder His very name carries this thought. The name, Jesus, means Jehovah Savior, and Jehovah is God. More than seven centuries before His virgin birth His name was given, EMMANUEL (God with us).

Let us answer, like Thomas of old as he found himself in the presence of the risen Savior,

"My Lord and my God" (John 20:28²⁸And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. (John 20:28)).

Our salvation lies with Him and none other.

“There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12¹²Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)).

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