given in the English revision, not in the American Standard Revision,
our Lord Jesus is spoken of as, "_our great God_ and Saviour Jesus
Christ." In Rom. 9:5, Paul tells us that +"Christ is over all, God
blessed forever."+ The Unitarians have made desperate efforts to
overcome the force of these words, but the only fair translation
and interpretation of the words that Paul wrote in Greek are the
translation and interpretation found in both our Authorised and Revised
Versions. There can be no honest doubt to one who goes to the Bible to
find out what it actually teaches, and not to read his own thought into
it, that _Jesus is spoken of by various names and titles that beyond
a question imply Deity_, and that He in so many words is called God.
In Heb. 1:8 it is said in so many words, of the Son, +"But unto the
Son he saith, thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of
righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom."+ If we should go no
further it is evidently the clear and often repeated teaching of the
Bible that Jesus Christ was really God.
II. DIVINE ATTRIBUTES
But there is a second line of proof that Jesus Christ was God, a proof
equally convincing, and that is, _all the five distinctively Divine
attributes are ascribed to Jesus Christ, and "all the fulness of the
Godhead" is said to dwell in Him_. There are five distinctively Divine
attributes, that is five attributes that God alone possesses. These are
Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence, Eternity, and Immutability.
Each one of these distinctively Divine attributes are ascribed to
Jesus Christ. First of all, omnipotence is ascribed to Jesus Christ.
Not only are we taught that Jesus had power over disease and death
and winds and sea and demons, that they were all subject to His word,
and that He is far above all principality, and power, and might,
and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world
but also in the world to come (Eph. 1:20-23), but in Heb. 1:3 it is
said in so many words that He +"Upholds all things by the word of
his power."+ Omniscience is also ascribed to Him. We are taught
in the Bible that Jesus knew men's lives, even their secret history
(John 4:16, 19), that He knew the secret thoughts of men, knew all
men, knew what was in man (Mark 2:8; Luke 5:22; John 2:24, 25) which
knowledge we are distinctly told in 2 Chron. 6:30 and Jer. 17:9, 10,
God only possesses, but we are told in so many words in John 16:30
that Jesus knew "all things," and in Col. 2:3 we are told that in Him
"are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Omnipresence is
also ascribed to Him. We are told in Matt. 18:20 that where two or
three are gathered together in His name, that He is in the midst of
them, and in Matt. 28:20 that wherever His obedient disciples should
go He would be with them, even unto the end of the age, and in John
14:20 and 2 Cor. 13:5 we are told that He dwells in each believer,
in all the millions of believers scattered over the earth. In Eph.
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