When pondering the question of the deity of Jesus, a person may need to consider the possibility that another reality exists beyond the natural world. This is where faith comes in, reasonable, logical faith that is; not blind faith.
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Was Jesus Really God?
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Ball of Confusion
Do you remember the song "Ball of Confusion" by The Temptations? I sure do. It was the summer of 1970 and I was a sassy 15 year old high-school student wearing a purple, fringed, beaded, leather pouch tied to the beltloop of my bell-bottom jeans. I was playing pinball in one of the restaurants on Mandalay Avenue when this song came on the radio.
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The Patriarch Period
Egyptian tablets (such as Dilbat, Mari, and Ebla) and artifacts such as scarabs and statues attest to personal names and place names found in the Patriarchal narratives.
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Reflections on the Ark of the Covenant
God gave Moses extremely precise instructions for the construction of the Ark of the Covenant in Exodus 25:10-22. It was built to hold the tablets of the Ten Commandments and it represented God’s presence with the Israelites during the wilderness years. It contained three sacred items: a pot of manna bread from heaven, stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments and the rod of Aaron with a fresh bud on it. These sacred items represented the Triune God, i.e., Father (stone tablet) Son (rod of Aaron with fresh bud) and Spirit (manna).