LUKE 24:45
Then He opened their understanding that they may understand the scriptures.
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GENESIS 1.1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
(Jesus is the Creator of all things, & by Him were all things made.)
COLOSSIANS 1:16-17
For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
GENESIS 1:26-27
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him;
(“In His own image” not meaning brown or blonde hair, or brown or blue eyes, but meaning as a triune being, a three part being. God is a triune being, spirit, soul, & body. And, so are we, being made in His image. Man is a spirit, lives in a body, & possesses a soul, which is the mind, the will, & the emotions.)
COLOSSIANS 2:9
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
JOHN 1:3
Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. (*GENESIS 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.)
ROMANS 9:5
Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
DEUTERONOMY 6:4
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
ISAIAH 9:6.7
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, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
JOHN 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
ISAIAH 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel. (God with us.)
MATTHEW 1:23
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
ISAIAH 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, Counselor, The mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
JOHN 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
JOHN 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.
JOHN 20:27,28
Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
TITUS 2:13
…looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
HEBREWS 1:1-4
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person.
HEBREWS 1:8
But to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
2 PETER 1:1
Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
MATTHEW 1:23
Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
JOHN 1:18
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father's side, has made Him known.
JOHN 10:30
I and My Father are one.
JOHN 14:9
Jesus replied, "Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
1 JOHN 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
1 CORINTHIANS 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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