Is Jesus God?

Who is Jesus? If you do a quick search online you will find that all the major religions view Jesus as anything from a moral man to an incarnation of God. Except for Judaism, where Jesus is thought of as a false prophet. It's interesting that people all over the world, with different religious beliefs, often have a very high regard of Jesus. 

 What does the Bible say about Jesus and who he was? In this short text from a confrontation between the Jewish religious leaders and Jesus, Jesus equaled himself with God, infuriating the Jews.

 "Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.” “You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!” “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds. John 8:56-59

 In the Old Testament when God spoke to Moses in the burning bush, God said to Moses,

 “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” Exodus 3:14

You see, when Jesus said, before Abraham was born, I am, he used the name that God gave Moses to use, when Moses asked who to tell the Israelites had sent him. 

John, who was one of Jesus' disciples writes about Jesus;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind

The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. 

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.(John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known. 

(Quoted from John chapter 1)

This is just a couple of examples where Jesus is described as God in the Bible.

Tom Smith