Finding Evidence for the Deity of Christ in the Old Testament is not a New Testament Exercise
Originally presented by Bill Schlegel, UCA conference, Goodlettsville, TN, October 2021. The latter portion of this text has been modified. To hear this presentation on the One God Report Podcast, click here . Neither Jesus nor any author of the New Testament appealed to the Old Testament in an effort to find evidence for the deity of Jesus Christ. Finding evidence for the deity of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament is an activity which began in the centuries after the New Testament was written. Such efforts are foreign to the New Testament. Based on Jesus’s own post-resurrection appeals to the Old Testament as described in Luke 24:25-27, and 24:44-47, and the apostolic sermons of Peter and Paul recorded in the Book of Acts (e.g., Acts 2:22-36, 3:18, 13:32-35, 17:2, 31) this presentation gives evidence that Jesus and the apostles never appealed to the Old Testament to demonstrate the deity of Christ, but rather to demonstrate the suffering, death, burial, resurrectio