Jesus is God

Jesus is God
The Apostle Paul wrote,
“Beware lest anyone cheats you through philosophy and empty deceit according to the traditions of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”
                                                            Colossians 2:8,9.
While this was written to Christians it makes clear who we Christians believe Jesus is. He is God.
Many people do not believe that Jesus is God. They believe that he is only a good moral teacher. While he taught high moral values. Jesus is not just a man.
It is a foundational belief in Christianity that Jesus is God. Second person of the Trinity a concept that is difficult to understand and I must admit takes faith.
C. S. Lewis writing in his book Mere Christianity put it this way,
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things that Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic on the level of a man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
                                        C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity 
Jesus in his day was looked upon by the teachers of the law not only as a rival to their authority but they called him a blasphemer claiming to be God.
His claim to be God is not hidden in the scriptures. It is out front for all who reads them to see.
What it comes down to is do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God the second person of the Trinity equal in every way to God or not.
If he is not the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind then Christians have nothing to fear for in following his teachings we are living good moral lives.
If however Jesus is all He said He is and all Christians believe him to be, then those who do not believe he is the Son of God have a lot to worry about.
Jesus made things very clear when he said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” 
                                                                     John 3:16-18
The decision as to who Jesus is, is entirely up to you the reader.
Please think about it.