Friends, Jesus’s claim to be God is captured in Scripture for us, and has been an essential teaching of Christianity from the very beginning of the Church (~AD 30).
Despite its historical significance, Mikel shares that only 43% of surveyed professing Christians today accept the teaching that Jesus is God(!).
Concurrently, a recent Barna poll demonstrates a similar statistic: just 37% of professing Christian pastors hold to a biblical worldview, with 67% accepting spiritual syncretism (research shared below). It’s apparent that Christians need more time in the Scriptures!
For this reason…please grab your Bible, play this video, and follow along with Mikel’s 40-minute lecture. It’ll encourage and equip you, immensely!
Resources:
https://www.str.org/w/nine-early-church-fathers-who-taught-jesus-is-god
Tim Barnett: “Many people think Emperor Constantine invented the deity of Christ in the fourth century, but a look at quotes from the early church fathers shows this is an egregious misrepresentation of the facts. In my mentoring letter this month, I offered a short list of quotations to demonstrate that the early church believed Jesus is God. Now I’d like to make the argument even stronger by offering thirty-six quotations from nine different early church fathers. All of these quotations predate the Council of Nicea.”
Hold Fast Apologetics 