When Did Jesus Christ Become Deity?

Jesus was not the Son of God in the eternity before the foundation of the world and on earth while He was serving for His Father. But He is Son of God after He ascended to the heaven and after His Coronation as king over the spiritual Israel.

There are several souls apart from the angels in heaven. God chose one of the best souls and made him as His Son and sent Him to this earth.

The two quotations above come from two sources, and presenters of the respective declarations appear to disparage the deity of Jesus Christ, supposing that He is a created being selected for a task by God and appointed to a position. These theories are without biblical basis, and therefore, they are both false. In addition, there is no biblical information respecting persons in heaven aside from the Godhead and one kind of angel or another.

It is true that the Second Person of the Godhead best known to us as Jesus Christ did not always occupy the role of Messiah or Savior. It was at a particular junction in human history that our Lord was declared to be such or accepted that role. Jesus Christ was validated as Messiah and Savior upon His resurrection from the dead never to return thereto (Psalm 2:7; Acts 13:30-35; Romans 1:4).

However, Jesus Christ is eternal and one of the three persons of the Godhead (Acts 17:29; Matthew 28:19). Speaking of Jesus Christ, note the opening verses of the Gospel According to John. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men” (John 1:1-4 NKJV). “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). Through the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, God was manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16; Matthew 1:23).

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