Jesus is explicitly called God (or “our God”, or “Divine”) in scripture
This article analyzes seven evidences,...
• …in John 1:1 (“and the Word was God”)
• …in John 1:18 (“God the one and only”)
• …in John 20:28 (“Thomas… said to Him, ‘My Lord and my God’”)
• …in Titus 2:13 (“our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,”)
• …in 2 Peter 1:1 (“our God and Savior, Jesus Christ”)
• …in Colossians 2:9 - (“in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells”)
• …in Hebrews 1:8 (“of the Son He [God] says ‘Your throne, O God, is”)
Jesus and God are identified by the exact same quotes.
This article analyzes seven evidences,...
• …both “search the heart/mind”
• …both “at my right hand” (quote)
• …both “founded the Earth” (quote)
• …both “through Him are all things”
• …both “Dwell in the temple of [our] body”
• …for both, “clear the way… in the wilderness”
• …to both, we “Call on the name of the Lord”
It says in Philippians 2 -- “[Jesus], although he was existing in God’s form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God.” [New World Translation (2013), for Jehovah's Witnesses].
But so what? Couldn't it simply be referring to Jesus's not grasping at God's higher rank.1
John 12:49 -- I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say (cf. Jn 14:28, 31). In short, unlike the Philippians, Jesus lacks the “contentiousness” (v3), “grumbling” (v14) and “selfish ambition” (v3) that the disunified Philippians displayed. Jesus consequently had equal divine nature but did not fight to have the Father's rank.