"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God ,did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Philippians 2:5-11
Here Paul makes it very clear that Jesus is the Christ and that He brings Glory to God the Father.
That “God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Again we see here that the apostle Paul who was writing this letter within living memory of the death and resurrection is claiming that Jesus is God.
That even at the mention of his name every tongue both in heaven and on earth shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Irrespective of what you may think about Jesus and Christianity you must admit that, first of all Christians want people to believe that Jesus is indeed God.
Therefore to make extravagant claims about him would be to turn people away and thus counter productive to the cause of Christianity.
Yet Christians do make the claim that Jesus God. Not only that but they publish those beliefs for all the world to see.
Therefore logic dictates either they are correct about his Deity, or they have perpetuated the most momentous lie in the history of the world.
Think about it.
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