There is a nascent movement among certain Q-anon influencer(s) that seeks to revive the 2,000 year old heresy that Christians are still under the Old Testament law. Evidently some folks prefer blog posts and YouTube videos to actually reading their Bibles. This is exactly why our culture is destitute and so easily manipulated; people have no idea how to actually read and study for themselves. Please don't play into (((their))) game.
Edit: For more context, read Acts chapter 15, Galatians (the whole thing), Romans 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, Ephesians 2:15, Colossians 2:8-17
The Jews certainly would believe that their anticipated messiah would indeed be God if they believed their own pre-Roman scriptures.
Paul did not write the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John or Isaiah or Zechariah or Revelation, and yet all of these declare the Godhood of Christ, and Paul's writings don't even contain the most compelling arguments for the divinity of Jesus. I think Paul assumed that his readers would already get that point and didn't feel much need to belabor it, although he certainly did affirm the concept many times.
Jesus is God
1 Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
John 5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
John 10:30 I and my Father are one. John 10:31-33 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
John 20:28-29 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Pierced Jesus, God
Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Zec 12:10b ...and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.
Every knee shall bow Jesus, God
Phi 2:10-11 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Isa 45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Creator Jesus, God
John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Ge 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Col 1:16 For by him (Jesus) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him
Isa 44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Saviour Jesus, God
Luke 2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Isa 43:11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
Phi 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Tim 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Isa 45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? Have not I the LORD? And there is no God else beside me; a just God and a saviour; there is none beside me.
“FIRST AND LAST” Jesus, God
Rev 1:11a Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last:
Isa 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Rev 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
Isa 48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Rev 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
"I Am" Jesus, God
John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Exo 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
John 13:19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.*
Isa 41:4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
John 18:5-6 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he.* And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he,* they went backward, and fell to the ground. (!!!!)
Isa 43:13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he,* ye shall die in your sins.
Isa 48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
*NOTE: The word “he” does not appear in these Greek texts; it has been added by well-meaning translators in an attempt to provide clarity to the English version. They probably didn’t understand why Jesus would say simply “I am,” and thought that the phrase sounded incomplete without a direct object.
**NOTE: The Hebrew name for God; Jehovah, or possibly Yahweh, is actually derived from the Hebrew words “hayah,” which means “to exist;” and “havah,” which means “to breathe.”
In Whose Name is Salvation? Jesus, God
Acts 4:10-12 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Who Raised Jesus From the Dead? Father? Son? Holy Spirit?
Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. [referring to His body]
1 Pet 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
Philippians 2:5-8 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.
Without going into the long lists, which can be found at c/Christianity, the issue is not to start with the "God-man" concept that Christian creeds have perhaps pounded too hard, the issue is to learn everything you can about the Messiah so that you can get behind his kingdom and support it. In particular, Is. 52:13-53:12 tells us about a Jewish suffering servant, which might be taken as representing "Israel". But the passage also talks about a group of sinners who received peace through this suffering, and these sinners also represent "Israel". That means the suffering servant is obviously the best of Israel: perhaps the best one man of all Israel. This informs the "Bar Nafle" Talmudic tradition that the Messiah must go through shame and wounding on his path, built solidly on Zechariah and other prophecies. We also know Jewish tradition that the Messiah might arise from among the living (our generation) or from among the dead (an earlier generation, used as an apologetic for Rebbe Schneerson). So the more we study about Jewish tradition of Messiah, the more we see the miraculous in his mission, such that only God could carry it out.
If you narrow the range of your search for truth to just a tiny spot and then complain about not finding anything, I don't know what to tell you. You just read several places where the Bible declares Jesus to be God. Isaiah in particular? Wouldn't Isaiah calling the messiah "Mighty God, Everlasting Father" (Isaiah 9:6) imply that He might be God? Wouldn't being God imply that He might be prone to performing miracles?
In addition to being God/Man, Jesus was pictured in several places in the Old Testament as the suffering savior Who would die for His peoples' sin. Isaiah 53. Also, on the cross, Jesus quoted the opening line of Psalm 22 in which verse 16 says "they pierced my hands and feet." In Zechariah 12:10 God says "and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born."
If you don't believe that Jesus was foretold by the prophets, it might interest you to read the prophet Daniel's predictions concerning Christ in Daniel chapter 9. An excellent discussion of the precision of Jesus's fulfillment of Daniel 9 is found here: https://www.khouse.org/articles/2004/552/ and another here: https://www.evenatthedoors.com/timeline11palmsunday.html (If the messiah were ever to appear, he would have to have appeared at the exact moment of Jesus's triumphal entry, i.e; Palm Sunday.)
If you don't believe in the historical accounts of Jesus performing miracles, that's your choice. The eyewitnesses recounted what they saw and heard. You and I were not there, so we can choose to believe the reports or not to believe them, but they are the only primary historical sources that reported these events.
Do you believe that rising from the dead on the 3rd day is a miracle and very much points to Christ's deity? Do you believe the resurrection was a hoax? If so, who moved the body? Was it Christ's enemies or His friends? If His enemies, then why could they not produce it and thus prove the fakery? If His friends, then why would the disciples who watched him die suddenly in unison begin preaching Him resurrected, and why would they have inexplicable newfound power and boldness (for a group whose leader was supposedly dead and they themselves certainly in fear of the same fate), accompanied by miracles of healing and other supernatural signs? Were they lying? Did they die for a lie, every one of them tortured and/or imprisoned with every opportunity to recant in order to save themselves?
If the Romans created the Jesus hoax to control the Jews, it seems very evident that this did not work, as the city of Jerusalem was utterly sacked by the Romans in 70 AD in response to the Jewish rebellion of 66 AD. If they sought to create a new religion they could control the people with, then why did they viciously and mercilessly persecute the early church and try to wipe it out?
None of that makes Christ God. Because God made him His son. Why do you think that relationship is so important? Keep your polish beliefs if you want. I'll stick to the truth.
Peter never went to Rome. Not one reference. In fact he got confronted by Paul for copping out.