{"id":306,"date":"2018-01-01T22:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesustruths.org\/?page_id=306"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:07:40","slug":"endnotes-apostles-believe-jesus-god","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/y-jesus.org\/polish\/endnotes-apostles-believe-jesus-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Endnotes \u2013 Did the Apostles Believe Jesus is God?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Will Durant,\u00a0Caesar and Christ<\/em>, vol 3 of The Story of Civilization (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972), 563.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. A. H. McNeile,\u00a0Introduction to the New Testament<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), 463, 464<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The title Lord is freely used in both Testaments to refer to God and Jesus. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word for Lord was Adonai. In the Septuagint and the New Testament the word translated \u201cLord\u201d is Kurios. Both Adonai and Kurios were used for God by the Jews.\u201d Josh McDowell & Bart Larson,Jesus: A Biblical Defense of His Deity<\/em>\u00a0(San Bernardino: Here\u2019s Life, 1983), 33.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Paul L. Maier, Ed, Eusebius,\u00a0The Church History<\/em>\u00a0(Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1999), 149.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Although most early Christians believed in Jesus\u2019 divinity, the church didn\u2019t clarify what that meant until the Council of Nicaea in 325 A. D., when the Roman emperor Constantine convened church leaders together to deal with Arius\u2019s view that Jesus was a created being. However, after an intense debate over the meaning of the apostles\u2019 words about Jesus in the New Testament, all but two of 318 church leaders reaffirmed the majority Christian belief that he is fully God, co-eternal, co-equal and with the Father and Holy Spirit (See \u201cMona Lisa\u2019s Smirk\u201d).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. See \u201cJesus.doc\u201d to discover the reliability of the New Testament<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Martin writes, \u201cContrary to the translations of The Emphatic Diaglott and the New World Translation, the Greek grammatical construction leaves no doubt whatsoever that this is the only possible rendering of the text\u2026. in their New World Translation Appendix 773-777 attempt to discredit the Greek text on this point, for they realize that if Jesus and Jehovah are \u201cOne\u201d in nature their theology cannot stand\u2026.\u201d Walter Martin,\u00a0The Kingdom of the Cults<\/em>\u00a0(Minneapolis, Minn: Bethany, 1974), 75.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. F. F. Bruce,\u00a0The Deity of Christ<\/em>\u00a0(Manchester, England: Wright\u2019s [Sandbach] Ltd., 1964<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. F. F. Bruce, \u201cThe \u2018Christ Hymn\u2019 of Colossians 1:15-20,\u201d Bibliotheca Sacra (April-June 1984): 101.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. D. Guthrie & J. A. Motyer,\u00a0The New Bible Commentary: Revised<\/em>\u00a0(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1973), 1144.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Bruce, \u2018Hymn\u2019, 101-102.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Although the author of Hebrews is unknown, some scholars believe it was written by Paul.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. The Amplified Bible<\/em>, Zondervan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Kenneth S. Wuest,\u00a0Word Studies in the Greek New Testament<\/em>, Vol. II (Grand Rapids, MI:, Eerdmans, 1986), 41.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. John Piper,\u00a0The Pleasures of God<\/em>\u00a0(Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2000), 33.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Norman Geisler & Peter Bocchino,\u00a0Unshakable Foundations<\/em>\u00a0(Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2001), 297.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. J. I. Packer,\u00a0Knowing God<\/em>\u00a0(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press), 54.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli,\u00a0Handbook of Christian Apologetics<\/em>(Downers Grove IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994), 152.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. \u201cThe Granville Sharpe rule of Greek grammar states that when two nouns are join by kai (and) and the first noun has the article and the second does not, then the two nouns refer to the same thing, Hence, great God and Savior\u2019 both refer to Christ Jesus.\u201d (The Moody Handbook of Theology, p. 225).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-306","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/y-jesus.org\/polish\/author\/mary\/","display_name":"mary"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on January 1, 2018","modified":"Updated on December 17, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on January 1, 2018 10:11 pm","modified":"Updated on December 17, 2025 5:07 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/y-jesus.org\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/y-jesus.org\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/y-jesus.org\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/y-jesus.org\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/y-jesus.org\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/y-jesus.org\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/y-jesus.org\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/y-jesus.org\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}