Is Jesus Christ God?

During a heartfelt dinner with my 11-year-old daughter, she looked at me with curious eyes and asked, “Is Jesus God?” Her question prompted a silent prayer for wisdom as I sought to explain this profound truth in a way she could understand. I asked her, “What are you made of?” after a series of back and forth conversation and asking her what are humans made off.  She replied, “A body, a spirit, and a soul.” I explained to her that God created us in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:26-27), meaning we reflect His nature. Just as a person is made of a body, soul, and spirit and remain one , God exists as a Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, all making God as one. She nodded thoughtfully and sipped her water, processing the information.

So “Is Jesus Christ God?. The Bible affirms that Jesus is indeed God, a truth woven throughout Scripture and fulfilled through His life, death, and resurrection. Let’s explore this truth and understand why Jesus is God and how His divine identity restores humanity’s relationship with God.

God exists outside time, as Scripture declares: “With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day” (2 Peter 3:8). Before creation, Jesus existed as the eternal Word: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). This verse clearly identifies Jesus, the Word, as God Himself, present at creation: “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made” (John 1:3).

God’s foreknowledge is perfect; nothing surprises Him. As Ecclesiastes 1:9 states, “There is nothing new under the sun.” When Satan, a fallen archangel, rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven (Revelation 12:7-9), God already had a plan to redeem humanity.

Before Jesus was physically revealed in Scripture, Satan had a clear mission, to corrupt humanity and lead us into rebellion against God. Knowing he could never attain God’s throne “How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations. You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” (Isaiah 14:12–14) or experience the kind of intimate love God has for humankind (John 3:16), Satan set out to destroy what God cherishes most: you and me.

His strategy has always been deception, destruction, and death “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10). In Eden, he deceived Adam and Eve, causing them to fall and be driven out of God’s presence (Genesis 3:1–24). From that point on, his work has been to lead humanity astray to entice us to sin, rebel against our Creator, and ultimately miss out on God's eternal plan.

Just as Satan fell from heaven due to pride and rebellion (Luke 10:18), his goal is to drag humanity down the same path, out of Eden, away from God's presence, and ultimately away from the promise of eternal life in the new Heaven and Earth (Revelation 21:1–4). In short, when Satan was cast out of heaven, he began targeting everything God loves. And that includes us.

We must remember: Satan did not fall alone, he took a third of the angels with him (Revelation 12:4). These fallen angels, now demons, along with Satan, have influence and operate with powers God originally gave them "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms”. (Ephesians 6:12). If Satan dared to tempt Jesus, not once, but three times in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1–11), it shows the boldness and cunning of his tactics. If he tried to derail the Son of God, how much more will he try to tempt us? And who can then dare take these powers and authority from him?

In Genesis 3, Satan deceived Eve, leading to the fall of humanity and the entrance of sin and death. God immediately announced His redemptive plan: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel” (Genesis 3:15). This prophecy points to Jesus, the descendant of the woman, who would defeat Satan through His death and resurrection.

Satan, aware of this coming “seed,” aware that he can not multiply/reproduce or create life (Genesis 1; John 1:3; Colossians 1:16), sought to thwart God’s plan by corrupting humanity and targeting the lineage through which the Messiah would come. From the murder of Abel to the attempts to destroy Israel, Satan’s schemes aimed to prevent the birth of the Savior.

God’s covenant with humanity granted us dominion over the earth (Genesis 1:28), and He honors His promises, for “God is not human, that he should lie” (Numbers 23:19). To redeem humanity without violating this covenant, God Himself entered creation as Jesus Christ. As John 1:14 declares, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” Jesus was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit, without any human father (Luke 1:35 (NIV). Jesus is fully God and fully man, the perfect mediator between God and humanity (1 Timothy 2:5).

Throughout the Old Testament, God foreshadowed Jesus’ coming. The animal sacrifices for sin (Leviticus 4) pointed to Jesus, the “Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). The Ark of the Covenant and the Holy of Holies, where only the high priest could enter, prefigured Jesus, our eternal High Priest (Hebrews 9:11-12). Prophecies like Isaiah 7:14 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God with us’)” explicitly affirm Jesus’ divine identity.

When Jesus was born, lived, died, and rose again, He fulfilled God’s promise to crush the serpent’s head. Colossians 2:15 states, “And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.” Jesus, as God, had the authority to reclaim the keys of death and Hades (Revelation 1:18), stripping Satan of his power.

Even Satan recognized Jesus’ divine authority during the temptation in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11). Yet, he underestimated God’s plan, not fully grasping how Jesus’ death would redeem humanity. As 1 Corinthians 2:8 reveals, “None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”

Just as we are created in God’s image, Jesus is the perfect image of God: “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being” (Hebrews 1:3). Through faith in Jesus, we are transformed to reflect His likeness, and the same power that raised Him from the dead lives in us (Romans 8:11). Philippians 2:10-11 proclaims that “at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

So, is Jesus Christ God? Yes, He is. The Bible affirms His deity, His role in creation, His victory over sin and death, and His eternal reign. As I explained to my daughter, just as we are body, soul, and spirit, God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God in three persons. Jesus is the manifestation of God’s love, sent to restore our relationship with Him. As John 3:16 declares, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Let us live in the truth that Jesus is God, trusting His plan and walking in His love, knowing that one day every knee will bow before Him (Philippians 2:10).