101 Reasons I believe Jesus is the one true God

Occasionally as Christians we stumble across this primary issue concerning the deity of Christ.  The acceptance or rejection of this belief is of paramount pertinence.  That Jesus was indeed God is the crux of our faith.  The majority of references in the New Testament epistles, when speaking of false teachers and heresies, are centered around this very dispute.  The Lord has provided us with a banquet table of defenses for our faith in this respect.  Partake as you will, and be blessed.  If you meet someone who has questions about Christ simply print this out.

  More or less it all boils down to this simple fact,

"A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence.  A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God."

101 Reasons I believe Jesus is the one true God

first 50 as follows:

1. "Even Jesus staunchest critics will tell you no one ever lived a life so pure as Jesus did"  R. Zachareus

2. "I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man."  Napolean Bonaparte

3. "Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?"

4. "I have betrayed the innocent blood."  Judas Iscariot

5. "I find no fault in this man."  Pontius Pilate

6. "Which of you convinceth me of sin?"  Jesus

7. "He is risen as He said."  Angel at the tomb

8. "Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead."  The Apostle Paul

9. "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive forever more."  Jesus

10. Dead people don't eat fish (Jn. 21)

11. The Messiah promised by the prophets to descend from the Davidic line would have had to have come before the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 AD when all the genealogical records were destroyed.

12. No false Messiah ever claimed to fulfill Scripture.

13. According to the laws of compound probabilities the odds of one man fulfilling over 300 OT Messianic prophecies is astronomical (literally in the trillions of trillions)

14. The Messiah was foretold to come out of Bethlehem, Egypt, and Nazareth.

15. "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, Jesus expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." (Lk. 24:27)

16.  "But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all His prophets, that Christ should suffer, He hath so fulfilled." (A. 3:18)< OL>
    17. Daniel prophesied 483 years would pass from the date dcreed to rebuild Jerusalem and when Jesus would enter Jerusalem.  This was fulfilled to the day.
    18.  "Unique among criminal trials is this one in which not the actions but the identity of the accused is the issue."  I. Linton
    19. "The claim that Christ is the only way of salvation is either true or false.  This can be determined only on the basis of the evidence."  J. Ankerberg & J. Weldon
    20.  "After six years given to the impartial investigation of Christianity, as to it's truth or falsity, I have come to the deliberate conclusion that Jesus Christ was the Messiah."  L. Wallace
    21. "A man who can read the NT and not see that Christ claims to be more than a man, can look all over the sky at high noon on a cloudless day and not see the sun."  W.E. Biederwolf
    22.  "The Humanist suggestion that Jesus was morally right, but religiously mistaken' defies all psychological probabilities."  F.R. Berry
    23.  "There certainly is, a deep and profoundly historical basis for that much disputed sentence in the Apostles creed- "The third day He rose again from the dead."  F. Morrison
    "Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am He."  Jesus
    25. "Simon Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
    26.  Jesus healed the blind, the lame, the lepers, the deaf, raised the dead, and preached the good news to the poor as the prophet Isaiah said the Messiah would.
    27. "If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins."  Jesus
    28. Jesus forgave sins not committed against Him.
    29. "The Jews sought the more to kill Him because He…said also that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God." (Jn. 5:18)
    30. "Jesus said unto [Satan], It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." (Mt. 4:7)
    31. "Why callest thopu me good? There is none good but one, that is, God?"  Jesus
    32. YHWH is translated into the Greek as KYRIOS and is used in reference to Jesus in the NT.
    33. "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ." (Tit. 2:13)
    34. Isaiah says there's only one God yet he calls Jesus and YHWH both "Mighty God." (44:6-8,45:5,10:21,9:6)
    35. "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up."  Jesus rose Himself from the dead.
    36. "For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." (Col. 2:9)
    37. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (Jn.1:1)
    38. "Truly this man was the Son of God."  Roman Centurion
    39. "The same works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father hath sent Me."  Jesus
    40. "His apparent equipment for teaching was minimal (education, research, travel, etc.), but His words were always exactly appropriate for the occasion.  No one can think how they could have been improved, and He never had to retract or apologize for anything He said."  H.M. Morris
    41. Jesus had to be a lunatic, a liar, a legend, or Lord.  The first three options aren't feasible in light of His life.
    42. "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."  1^st Century Hymn
    43. How could Jesus and YHWH both be equally and simultaneously all-powerful?
    44. Jesus made a minimum of 15 separate appearances to over 500 eyewitnesses between His resurrection and ascension.
    45. Jesus existence, the time He lived, His being a miracle worker, and having many followers who would die before denying Him as God are documented by early secular historians such as Cornelius, Tacitus, Josephus, Suetonius, Pliny the Younger, the Babylonian Talmud, and others.
    46. "On the whole world there pressed a most fearful darkness, and the rocks were rent by an earthquake, and many places in Judea and other districts were thrown down."  Thallus 52 AD
    47. "…He appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets foretold…"  Josephus
    48. "…Christ had been executed in Tiberius' reign…"  Tacitus
    49. "…He was hanged on Passover Eve."  Babylonian Talmud
    50. How does one account for the thousands of changed lives previously committed to Judaism?