Is Jesus the Creator God?

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” –John 1: 1-3

The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the Creator God. In the first chapter of the Gospel according to St. John we read, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made… The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth… For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” In The Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians we read, ‘For by him (Jesus Christ) were all things created’. Not only does Scripture affirm it, but during His earthly life and ministry He did the very things we would expect the Creator God to do. He did them in the way that we would expect the Creator God to do them—by His word of authority and the exercise of His will.

Jesus resurrected the dead on three occasions:  a widow’s son, Jairus’ daughter, and his friend Lazarus. Several of Jesus’ miracles involved the creation of new material. Jesus’ first miraculous sign to His disciples involved turning water to wine. Other examples are the two times when Jesus fed a multitude: the first occasion was when he provided food for more than 5,000 people with just five loaves and two fish, and on the second occasion he fed more than 4,000 people with seven loaves and a few pieces of fish. Some of Jesus’ miracles of healing, for example, of lepers, the blind and paralytics, involved the instant repair of tissues, nerves, muscles, etc., and the instantaneous regeneration or growth of healthy cells. The net result was the creation of healthy functioning parts of the body to replace diseased, non-functioning or atrophied parts.

Jesus employed a variety of means to perform His miracles. These included touching lepers, the blind, and the deaf; the use of saliva to heal a deaf mute and a blind man; the use of clay (with instructions to wash) to heal a blind man; and the word of command to heal, to raise the dead, and to exorcise demons. What happened in these and in all of Jesus’ miracles was that Jesus willed the event to happen and it did. Jesus willed the water to become wine, as it was being taken into the wedding feast in Cana, and it happened! He willed the bread and fish to multiply and they did, and He willed the ten lepers to become well and they were healed soon after they had left Him and were on their way to the priests.

John, an apostle of Jesus calls His miracles’ signs and in his Gospel He indicates which way the signs point; “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”

Very often we ask, what’s significance of a name? Why can’t we approach God in any name? Doesn’t God the omniscient creator know our innermost desire to know him and can’t he receive our prayers that are rendered in any name? Most people think that when they call God by different names, like Allah, Krishna, Rama or Jesus, they are referring to the same person. Is this true? Let us examine. What is the purpose behind using a name? Why do we give names to our children? Why do the scientists give names to different species of plants, animals and even hybrids? We all know that names help us to make a distinction of individuals, species and even societies.

Name is a key feature that helps us to identify a thing and differentiate it from other things. A name is a word or term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. So when we call God by a certain name, we are indirectly referring to the person who was/is known by that name. We all know that every person has a unique character, lifestyle and way of thinking. This is also evident in the lives of the personalities that we refer to as Gods. We can easily point out that the character, lifestyle, teaching and the way of thinking of these personalities (whom people claim to be God or incarnations of God) are completely different from each other and sometimes even quite opposite. Why is it so? This is because behind every name there is a person, behind every person there is a character or lifestyle, behind every character there is a teaching and behind every teaching there is a Spirit. The answer is very simple, “their Spirits are different” or “they are different Spirit-beings”. So from the above observation it is clear that we are not calling on the same person when we call upon God by these different names.

Do you want eternal life through the name of Jesus Christ?

If you repent and confess your sins to God and receive Jesus Christ as the Lord and Saviour of your life you can receive this free gift of eternal life. God will cleanse your conscience with the blood of Jesus, forgive your sins and fill you with His Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ came into this world to save sinners; he destroyed the power of death and has brought immortality to light through the gospel. 

If you believe this message I exhort you to say the following prayer with all your heart. “Lord Jesus I am a sinner. I repent of my sins and believe that you died and resurrected to save me. Please forgive me and cleanse my conscience with your precious blood. I receive you as my Lord and Savior. Please fill me with your Holy Spirit. Thank you for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Amen!”

If you have prayed sincerely, God has forgiven your sins. He has written your name in the ‘Book of Life’ in heaven and you have received eternal life.

Written By: Dr. Manoj Kumar Khatore,

Copyright © 2012 Dr. Manoj Kumar Khatore

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