Does The Bible Prove Jesus Is God?

Then answering Jesus and said unto them, Verily, 

verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing 

of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: 

for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth 

the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, 

and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth 

and He will shew Him greater works than these, 

that ye many marvel. For as the Father raiseth 

up the dead, and quickeneth them; 

even so the Son quickeneth whom He will.

John 5:19-21 

      The cultic Christians who are Arian in theology will point to these verses to prove that Jesus is not God. Maybe you are confused as well. Are these proof verses proving that Jesus is not God but a created being? Who is this Jesus? It is Jesus who is reported by John to be speaking so what he said is important so that you and I will not be confused, that is, if you use good Greek grammar, critical thinking, and have knowledge of other verses that point out who is this Jesus. So, let us break down the verses and include other verses that give to us who is this Jesus.

      As a man Jesus cannot do what every man cannot do and we must remember Jesus was fully man, albeit He was the Only Begotten Son of God as well so that Jesus was not made, as was Adam, but also was formed into a man by God, innocent, holy (no sin or fallen nature from Adam), making Jesus equal to Adam if Adam had not sinned. Jesus said that what He did was only because He saw what the Father does: The Greek for seeth is present tense, subjunctive, third person, singular, active. What does this mean? It is subjunctive because Jesus could or not could do anything on His own so that for Him to do anything something else must be causing Him to do whatever He was to do. This was the Father: Jesus saw in the present what the Father was doing: How? how could Jesus on this earth see the invisible, to our eyes, the Father? He could only see Him in the present if He was also in the present before God. This makes Jesus something more for by this He could be on earth and be in heaven at the same time. This seeing was active, that is in present time, the singular third person meant that He, not someone else, He was seeing. Next we learn that the Father loveth the Son and this is true for God sent into our world His Only Begotten Son and as Love He loved His Son. The Greek is so plain for the word translated likewise means "like manner," the Son does in "like manner so to be able to see in "like manner" and in present active time Jesus must have the ability to see God. God does things but we do not see God, we see His affects, and effects, but we do not see what God is doing, we see the results. The Greek word "shews" is Third person, singular, active and in the present tense, indicative. God is not controlled by a subjunctive word He for God does what God wills to do and if He does not will it: it does not happen. So, God in present time, and Jesus being in present time see in the present time what God wills to have done. If Jesus had seen this before His entry into our world the Greek would have either been in the perfect tense, or plupurfect, maybe in future, or aorist, but it was not and is not, it is in present time and only If Jesus is God could He see what God wills and then do God's will. A side note: the words were not imperative, that is God was not in the present time ordering by command what Jesus should do. Now God speaks through Jesus that He would in the future (that is the Greek grammar used "will shew" to Him works (now the word "greater" is not present in the Greek here in this verse), why? Because God is showing to Jesus His will as necessary so that His purpose for sending Jesus to the earth will be accomplished. God gives more works that Jesus would perform, not for Himself, but for His disciples, and this extends to you and I. These works will cause you to wonder, that is you may marvel. Here is a work that only God can perform: raising the dead, not just some resuscitation, no, cause a dead person to live again and not die. It is said that Jesus would "quicken" that is: to make more right, to become alive. How can a living person, even if they are raised from the dead live "more right" than they did before? Only if they are given immortality and only God raises the dead, quickens the dead and the Son raises the dead and quickens the dead. This has only one meaning: Jesus is God, yes He is man, in fact He is Godman, hypostactically joined with God making Jesus both God and man. Jesus by the will of God is the propitiation for sin. Not an angel, nor any other creature, only Jesus as both man equal to the fallen man and being without sin as a man can quicken, bring to life, and the life is a marvel because this quickened life is now immortal, death no longer reigns over the one who has come to believe in Jesus as the Bible tells us as who is this Jesus.
     let us look at what Jesus spoke: "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2:19). Who is going to raise up Jesus? It is Jesus! Wait a minuet: Did not God say that He was going to quicken? Did not Jesus say that He was going to quicken? Yes, in both cases and now Jesus makes it plain, clear, concise, it is He that will raise Him from the dead. By the way: the Greek word is first person future singular active and indicative, there can be no other translation that it is Jesus Himself that will in the future raise Himself from the dead. Those who hold an Arian theology, Jehovah Witness for one use those same words that Jesus would raise Himself up so why do they hold to a cultic theology that Jesus is not God Himself? They have fallen under a delusion, a delusion of their own making so that they will give reasons for such a verse to meet their theology and leaving out the fact that is so true throughout the New Testament: Jesus is God, not a created being. 
     The Son is said to quicken whoever He wills, so, what is His will? The will of the Son is the same as the Father, that all who believe in Him will be quickened, that is brought to a life that is not of this world but the world God has prepared for all who believe in His Son as Savior. 
      Who do you say Jesus is and what proof do you have if your proof is not the proof of Scripture? Do you want forgiveness for your sins? Good! The only ground on which God can forgive you and me is through the cross of Jesus Christ. Your forgiveness means not merely that you are saved from Ghenna and made right for heaven, forgiveness mans that you and I are forgiven into a recreated relationship, quickened into indentification with God in Jesus Christ. God will put into you a new disposition, the disposition of Jesus Christ. God will do this, only you must be the one doing it, you must be on guard continually and develop a sense like a bloodhound by taking steps to know the argument in which depends not on historical and linguistic knowledge but on the revealed miracle that is impossible, even if we think improbable, or improper for us to think. We must, you must, educate yourself, and this is one of the purposes of these blogs, to educate, to get you to think. You must eradicate any thought from your mind, even those thoughts that you may have learned from childhood. It is those thoughts that disguise the truth and is your adversary. 
     I will end this blog with this quote:
"If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post" (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy). 

I have heard of Thee by the hearing
     of the ear: but now mine eye seeth Thee.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent
    in dust and ashes.
                      Job 42:5-6

Study showing yourself an approved workman]

Richard L. Crumb