The Deity of Christ

According to TDVC...

The doctrine of Christ being God was invented by the Church through the emperor Constantine, at the council of Nicea in 325 AD.

“Constantine attempted to eradicate ‘the earlier’ gospels (Gnostic Gospels) but some survived. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in the 1950’s hidden in a cave near Qumran in the Judean desert. And of course the Coptic Scrolls in 1945 at Nag Hammadi.” (page 234)

TDVC - EXPOSED!!!

The Deity of Jesus was discussed at the council of Nicea, but it was not invented or fabricated.

A variety of New Testament passages written in the first century affirm the absolute and full deity of Christ:

“within Him dwells all the fullness of being God in bodily form”
Colossians 2:9

“calling God His own Father, making himself equal with God”
John 5:18

“my Lord and my God”
John 20:28

“our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ”
Titus 2:13

“God over all, blessed forever”
Romans 9:5

(For further evidence of the belief for Jesus as God, check this out.)

There are also a number of other early non-biblical historical sources that demonstrate that the early Christians worshipped Jesus as God well before the 4th century. One example:

Pliny the Younger, Roman governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor around 112 AD, wrote to the Emperor Trajan observing that the Christians sang hymns to Christ "as to a god":

"[The Christians] were in the habit of meeting
on a certain fixed day before it was light,
when they sang in alternate verses
a hymn to Christ, as to a god..."

(For further examples from early non-biblical sources, click here.)