Is Jesus Christ God?
Well, let's let Jesus answer this question for himself!
"...I am." (John 8:58)
Now wait, hold on, let's go back to that verse.
The whole verse is:
"Truly Truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."
Wow! Wait, so He existed before Abraham was born?!?
Well, if we're going to let Him speak for Himself, then yes, He did.
"Now come on, let us reason this out. Jesus didn't *really* mean He existed then, wasn't really alive then. He was *alive* in the mind of God, however! It's so clear that the Word of God wasn't actually a person before being manifest in the flesh, but...an idea! Why won't you see this?"
Well, because I let God speak for Himself.
Let's take another look at this, shall we?
So, did any of the other New Testament writers have anything to say about this matter? Why, of course!
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny [I]our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.[/i]
Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. (Jude 4, 5)
For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play." We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. (1 Corinthians 10:1-11)
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11)
(It is interesting to note that this is in reference to Isaiah 45:23, which says:
I have sworn by Myself,
The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness
And will not turn back,
That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.)
I could put even more verses down here (look at the 1st chapter of Hebrews for another example), but I believe the Scriptures are well-sufficient to show that Jesus Christ is, indeed, God in the flesh. He pitched His tent among us (John 1:1-18), and we have seen His glory with the eyes of our heart, glory as of the only Son from the Father. Glory as of the only God.
Grace and Love