There so much information to cover to really be thorough when dealing with the topic of Jesus's divinity. Many exhaustive scholarly books have been written on the subject and there is good information in many unscholarly ones.
A more scholarly introduction on the Divinity of Christ from the 'Son of God' topic headings in the 'Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels' and also the 'Dictionary of Paul and His Letters.'
Which would lead us into a scholarly discussion with much meat to digest
found in Dr. Norman Geisler's 'Christian Apologetics' book chapter 17 'The Deity and Authority of Jesus Christ' paying special attention to the section titled 'The Substantiation of Christ's Claims to Be God.'
On the basis of the historical reliability of the New Testament we can be sure that we possess the essence of the teachings of Christ about himself. In view of the messianic prophecies Jesus fulfilled, the titles of deity he applied to himself, and the worship he accepted, as well as the other claims to deity Christ made, we must conclude that Jesus thought of himself as God Incarnate in human form.
An examination of his disciples' beliefs about him reveals that they too taught that he was equal with and identical to God. Jesus not only claimed deity but he provided a unique and threefold proof that he was truly the person he claimed to be. He miraculously fulfilled dozens of prophecies made hundreds of years before his birth; he lived a sinless and miracle-filled life, and he died and rose triumphantly and bodily out of the grave. This convergence of three lines of the miraculous in one man-Jesus of Nazareth-confirms his claims to be the unique Son of God. Jesus alone claimed and proved to be deity.
We are now in a position to answer another of David Hume's objections to miracles. Hume argued that all religions present miracles in support Of their truth claims; hence, no religion can appeal to miracles since their claims are mutually self-canceling. Now we can see this is not true.
Only Christianity has a triune concurrence of unique miracles in the Person and claims of Christ. Hence, we may argue two things: first, only Christianity is true; and second, all other religions (based as they are on similar sub-Christian evidence) are false, since they are mutually self canceling. This argument for the truth of Christianity will stand unless a similar or unique miraculous concurrence can be historically verified for another religion.
One very important consequence follows from the conclusion that Christ is God, namely, his divine authority. But I am running out of room to type here.
