An angel of the Lord who appeared to Nephi used a word to describe the willingness of the Holy One of Israel to step down from His throne divine and make flesh His tabernacle. The degree of emphasis on the Bible in any preachers ministry, in any church, in any organization, the degree of emphasis on the Bible is equal to the commitment to the glory of the Son of God. Every one of them attacked His nature. We wouldnt understand the importance of the atonement from the gospels, if it werent for books like Romans or Hebrews, which unpack the theological importance of this event. In the words of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), "Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature.". We sent you an email. A while ago I wrote a very short introduction about the doctrine of the Trinity, that God is three persons yet one. Dont expose yourself to a deceptive, lying Christology. You preach any other Christ than the true Christ, youre damned, thats Galatians 1. [16] Remember, the epistles were not a theological embellishment of the gospel accounts, because they were historically written before the gospels. The Blessed Virgin Mary set the example when she said yes to God, Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word (Luke 1:38). 8:24), grew physically and mentally (Lk. Because the Divinity of Jesus is not just a dogma that all Christians have to believe in, it is beautiful! Heres the quote: A voice like a mighty rushing wind filled the temple. Thats the Mormon temple. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial Trinity". And all kinds of instructions, you know, on a practical level, this was accurate and this went on and on. The following passages also reflect the divinity of Christ: Titus 2:13 our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. He loved the Bible, taught Sunday school, and was a preacher from a very young age. The completed registration allows us to send order and donation receipts to the email address you provided. One is a man named Creflo Dollar, a flashy prosperity preacher down in Georgia, who last summer was arrested for punching and choking his fifteen-year-old daughter. And I turned to another preacher, and he was saying, This is what you need to do when youre in trouble. Twenty-four million or twenty-five million of them deny the Trinity. So what we want to do is see if we cant spread around the world the true knowledge of the true Christ, right? Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. We all understand that the New Testament is about Him, the four gospels that give us the focus on the Lord Jesus Christ. Genesis 1:1 tells us, "In the beginning God created . I get that. Baker Publishing Group. Each nature remains distinct. And every spirit, verse 3, that does not confess Jesus is not from God. Jesus added a human nature in addition to his divine nature. He says that the purpose of his writing was for the purpose of evangelism (see vs. 30-31). Insulting the Spirit is just as sinful as trampling the Son of God under foot ( Hebrews 10:29 ). If Jesus were not God and He said I AM then He would have been truly guilty of blasphemy and deserving to be stoned. 6. However, with the God-man on the Cross, the atonement makes sense of the infinite judgment of God. [12] McDowell, Josh. Please respond to confirm your registration. How could Jesus really die once for all (Heb. All Christians who adhere to the dogma of the Trinity need to know both to defend their faith and to combat heresy. Moreover, Jesus Himself also set the example in His obedience to God the Father, Not My will but Your Will be done! (Luke 22:42, Matthew 26:42-44, Mark 14:36, and elsewhere). Why is that? All rights reserved. This doesnt mean that Jesus spoke with charisma or confidence. All Your years stand at once since they do stand; nor were they when departing excluded by coming years, because they pass not away; but all these of ours shall be when all shall cease to be. Ninety percent of the Charismatic/Pentecostal people in the world, ninety percent of them- and there are multi-millions of them, approaching a hundred million or something- ninety percent of them are part of the Word-Faith movement. What many Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars have come to interpret this to mean is that God has declared that He is existence itself without a cause for His existence; He is not merely the highest Being, He is Being itself. All were moved by invisible power, began to speak in tongues and prophesy, and others saw glorious visions, and the temple was filled with angels. That sounds like a Benny Hinn meeting claim. You are a man who can also become God. Because thats the subtlety of Satan. Kenneth Copeland again exhibits the blasphemous and dangerous way in which the Lord Jesus is treated in Word-Faith circles by suggesting that He went to hell when He died spiritually. And all kinds of suggestions about dont get physical with someone youre dating, get out of debt, all these power-point preaching- somebody said, Power-point preaching is like smoking a big cigar. 11:33, 35), suffered anguish (Lk. In this passage Jesus is daring to say the Sacred Name of God I Am given to Moses at the burning bush in Exodus 3:14. Staggering blasphemies against the nature of Christ. If Jesus is truly your God, your Master, your King, and your Lord, are you really obedient to Him? Enter your email address and we will send you instructions on how to reset your password. John actually saw Jesus, and he felt like a dead man- so did Isaiah and so did Ezekiel. Moreover, as we read through the NT, we see that Jesus was hungry (Mt. [10], The Greek word kurios (pronounced KEER-ee-oss) is used of human lords in the Greek language (1 Pet. Show that you're brave enough to visit the possibility that you're wrong and wise enough to know that hearing and agreeing are different. Four centuries the church fought against heresies against Christ because the enemy knew thats where the most devastating blows can be struck. [18] Copan, Paul, and William Lane Craig. Staggering misunderstandings of who He is. He is worshiped as God. We wouldnt understand the importance of the resurrection from the gospels, if it wasnt for passages like 1 Cor. It means to descend or come down from an exalted position to a place of inferior station. For this reason, we believe that God is eternal and has no beginning or end. However, when it comes to being challenged by various Christian heretics about the doctrine of the Trinity, especially by Jehovah Witnesses, this is my go to passage in conjunction to the data found in the New Testament. I said, Why in the world would you want to put a snake up there, the sign of Satan. Evidence Unseen 2023. Instead, he ceased to use these attributes. From the four canonical Gospels through the book of Acts and the Pauline Epistles, Jesus is not only seen as the Messiah (or Christ) but also equated with God Himself. 10:10) for the sins of the entire human race (Jn. Another one said, Jesus makes appearances as a man in my bathroom. Another said that Jesus appeared to him dancing on a garbage dump. First published Fri Jul 17, 2020. So watch yourselves- watch yourselves- your reward, your eternal reward, is at stake, verse 8. 2:5). RESPONSE: (Jn. We might respond to this by saying: "This makes him difficult to relate to" or . Using the words that Saint Paul declared of Jesus in Colossians 2:9, in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, the Council of Ephesus held in 431 declared that Christ is both 100% man and 100% Divine and that both natures were held in one person: Jesus. That alone caused the church to focus on the gospel of John. And it should be known by all of you that those kinds of views are still all over the place today. Creflo Dollar, in gross irreverence, questions the deity of our Lord. Hebrews tells us that Christ became human in all things (Heb. The estimate is that there are 25- 24, 25 million people in the Oneness movement. challenge unbelief, expose errors, and defend the message of the gospel. 41:4) I, the Lord, am the first, and with the last. First off, let us establish the important core principle: there is only ONE God. You know Jesus in one Scripture in the Bible, He went on a journey and He was tired. In summary, theres a desperate need for the true knowledge of Christ, for the salvation of sinners, for the rescue of the deceived, for the love of the saints, so that we might love Him more and obey Him more, worship Him more, honor Him more. Christ's divinity is shown over and over again in the New Testament.For example, in John 5:18 we are told that Jesus' opponents sought to kill him because he "called God his Father, making himself equal with God.". Quote: Jesus didnt show up perfect; He grew into His perfection. Christ is only one Person. Again, John uses the phrase ego emi which is the divine name for God. We give no credence, no credibility, no honor to Muhammad. God the Father did not bleed his blood; God the Son did. 3:6; Col. 2:9). For example, the Christ of Mormonism. CLAIM: (Jn. In the New Living Translation, they have rewritten the Bible to fit their doctrinal views. Sign up if you would like to receive occasional treats from us. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1989. 2:14, 17). 12:48). 4:2), thirsty (Jn. Mitt Romney has said he believes in Christ as his Savior, and thats what I believe, so you know, Im not the one to judge the little details, so I believe they are.. 8Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. [14] Tetragrammaton refers to YHWH or Yahweh. Tetra means four, and grammaton means letters.. Zechariah claims that Yahweh will be pierced, but John interprets this to refer to Jesus. In short, the answer is, Jesus had to be truly God so that he could satisfy God's wrath and secure for us true righteousness and life. His emaciated little wormy spirit is down in the bottom of that thing, and the devil thinks hes got Him destroyed. Referring to the nature of Christ as that emaciated little wormy spirit down in the bottom of the pit. A clear and simple way of affirming the deity of Christ is to show where NT authors cite OT passages referring to Yahweh and apply them to Christ (e.g., compare Ps. Amen. If the spy uses the amnesia pill, he would still possess the vital information in his mind; given these temporary conditions required to carry out his mission, he chooses to limit his access to the information thats stored up in his mind. In these moments, we are held within the grips of the ego . Moreover, the historical setting in which he grew up, the psychological mood and temper of the age and of 1998. God does not have a cause, He simply is. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed with a loud cry, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! Jesus ( the Word before his Incarnation) is revealed to be "God" and the Creator of all things that were created. Though, sometimes, they combined these two terms for a full effect: My kurios and my theos! (Jn. The Jews understood exactly what Jesus was claimingdeity. Holiness is a basic characteristic of the Spirit. We are consumed with Christ, preoccupied with Him, worshiping Him, adoring Him and loving Him. Why is my sentence for a life of sin eternity in hell, if Jesus could pay for this in an instant on the Cross? [3] These passages from Isaiah mirror Jesus own statement: I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He (Jn. God thus is present everywhere in the past, present, and future at the same time and for Him they are all the now. It is the spirit of antichrist, then, to give honor to a false Jesus- and that is deadly. 99. Well, lets bow together as we come to the Lords Table and now, I think, now more informed again to give honor to our Christ as we remember His death for us, the God-man who gave Himself for us. They call Him a prophet, a true prophet. And loving Christ is proportionate to what you know about Him. As you may be aware, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into full effect on 25th May 2018. But when I address this emphasis that this would imply that the angels would be co-creators of man, they have been puzzled. Where there is a consuming love for Christ, there will be a concurrent consuming love for Scripture. 83. For a full exegesis of this passage, see comments on 1 John 5:20. You dont know what happened at the cross. Sadly, many Catholics can be ignorant of both. And then there was that far-reaching and most serious view called Arianism from Arias, who essentially said He is a created being, created by God, not God but created by God. Because the story was funny? 8:58) Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.. When Paul (in Romans 13:10) said, Love is the fulfillment of the whole law, he was essentially saying what the first commandment is, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. You can forget about the rules because youll be driven by that pure love. There is one thing we have that Jesus lacked: sin. 23:46). Because God was not His Father anymore. In other words, if Jesus is truly your God, you will want His Will to be done and you will want to attune your will to His. And yet this Trinity, being one God, even after saying Let us make, goes on to say, And God made man in His image, [Genesis 1:26] and not Gods made, or in their image. 26:64-66. 98. All Rights Reserved. This is how you know the difference between the spirit of truth and the spirit of error- the unconverted listening to false teachers; the true church listening to the true teachers. We come now to the gospel of John. Why? Thats a good thing. Minneapolis, MN. Amen. Jesus claimed that worship should be reserved for Yahweh alone (Mt. Although a Christian heretic will have trouble debunking these clear pieces of data to support the Divinity of Christ, a Jewish critic will argue that these examples have no merit because the New Testament of the Bible is simply a Christian invention and not part of Gods Revelation. I believe thats what the Bible teaches, but I think that only God will judge a persons heart. Just subjectivity. The Redeemer had to be truly divine: in order to satisfy and secure. We need to be clear: Jesus did not cease to have his divine attributes on Earth. 20:5). He claimed the same right for himself! Salvation comes by believing in Christ. [5] Should you Believe in the Trinity? Log In This is a technical book that gives an exegetical defense for why we believe the NT calls Jesus God (theos). Chapter 30: Christian Doctrines (2): The Incarnation.. When Jesus said, in Matthew 16:13, Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am? He asked the foundational question: Who is Jesus Christ? In this short book, NT scholar Richard Bauckham argues for the deity of Christ from a Jewish worldview in the first century. The biblical view, definitively revealed in Jesus, demonstrates that humanity is most itself when it is closest to and rooted in God. If there is any diminishing of Christ or deviation from the true Christ, there is a serious violation of the purpose of God in revealing Scripture- Old Testament and New Testament. 84. However, Jesus went on to be worshipped by people (Mt. [8] The Jews believed that they could encounter God in the Temple. Please contact the publisher to obtain copies of this resource. Therefore, not only is the dogma of the Trinity required for us to believe, not only is it beautiful, all of our Salvation is dependent upon the FACT that Jesus is God. 5:17) But He answered them, My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.. The most well-known one would be T.D. Jakes. 15:12-19. I would say it this way: Devotion to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ is the benchmark of legitimacy in any preacher and any ministry. 251 In order to articulate the dogma of the Trinity, the Church had to develop her own terminology with the help of certain notions of philosophical origin: "substance", "person" or "hypostasis", "relation" and so on. 1:10-12; Isa. Therefore, this passage of John clearly declares that Jesus takes the Sacred Name for Himself because the Jews wanted to kill Him for blasphemy as a result as they were technically obligated to do so according to the commandment found in Leviticus 24. Romans 10:9 explains that we specifically need to call on the name of Jesus, while Joel says that we need to call on Yahweh. Revelation from God has been a gradual process and our understanding of it is also a process and we have had to develop terminology to describe the Divine concepts in a manner so that we can understand it; our vocabulary for the Trinity is but one of many examples of this. But did Jesus Himself ever declare His Divinity? One guy was talking about how to become the person that the person you want is looking for if youre single. Those two are in direct proportion to one another. Obedience, keeping His commandments, is connected to loving. In fact, he affirmed it! The Jews in Jesus day believed that God continued to work on the Sabbath (bringing rain, sunlight, etc.). So you need to know what we say here goes lots of places. Godship, Mastership, Kingship, and Lordship all demand love, devotion, loyalty, and obedience. By consequence, this council also declared the dogma that the Virgin Mary is the Theotokos, the Mother of God (a term used to describe her in the writings of the Church Fathers long before this council), and it was only in response to the natures of Christ being challenged that this title was applied to her. 8:24, 28) Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins So Jesus said, When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.. Hed come as a man., How about Benny Hinn, who is inescapable in the media? But for this morning, were going to begin the gospel of John, and were going to do that for a while to come. 255 The divine persons are relative to one another. 23:5-6). Nashville, TN: T. Nelson, 1999. Doing some research on the views that the Charismatic leaders- were talking about leaders, published leaders, television personalities, radio preachers, people who fill up stadiums all over the globe, and all the folks who follow them- some of their views are bizarre about Jesus. 3. The Bible certainly teaches that Jesus was fully human. But, it is clear that Jesus is using the title from Daniel rather than from Ezekiel. We should be magnifying Christ and the Holy Spirit instead of downgrading themas some are trying to do. To avoid divulging answers in case hes caught and tortured, he takes along a limited-amnesia producing pill with an antidote for later use. They are deceivers who have gone out into the world, Those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. They dont acknowledge the truth concerning Jesus Christ. Another well-known leader said, Jesus lies with me in the grass and the Father comes and lies down beside us.. And then the epistles are written to explain the meaning of His death and resurrection. He said this, Jesus, who is righteous by choice- what a ridiculous statement, rather than by nature- Jesus, who is righteous by choice, said, The only way I can stop sin is by becoming it. Likewise, Jeremiah also predicted that the Messiah would be called Yahweh, using the Tetragrammaton[14] for Jesus. Because it is the strategy of Satan to be anti-Christ, right? So it is apologetic. That is, He is the theme of Old Testament prophecy and clearly the theme of New Testament preaching. 2:5). In fact, when He first truly began to reveal Himself to man through Moses, He declared, I AM THAT I AM (YHWH/Jehovah, Exodus 3:14). In the same way, we shouldnt be surprised to find clearer theological teaching on Jesus deity in the epistlesrather than the gospels. We must get it right about Christ. Colossians 2:9 In Him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily. In doing this, she did not submit the faith to human wisdom, but gave a new and unprecedented meaning to these terms, which from then on would be used to signify an ineffable mystery, "infinitely beyond all that we can humanly understand". Minneapolis, MN. You get to be on it at the launch point. As he was sinking, he cried, "Lord, save me.". A churchs love for Christ will show up in their devotion to the revelation concerning Christ. This is the reason for Johns gospel. Baker Publishing Group. For instance, while he was on Earth, Jesus lacked the use of omniscience (Lk. When the guards come to find Jesus, he tells them, I am. How do they react? 87-88. When the Judg- And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the LORD (Yahweh) will be delivered (Joel 2:32). And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?. And then the culminating book, the book of Revelation, about His second coming return in glory, so that the New Testament focuses on Jesus Christ widely and deeply. 24:52; Jn. Chapter 15: Did God Become a Jew?, Moreland, J.P. & Craig, William Lane. Matthew 1:23/ Isaiah 7:14 "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and His name shall be called Emmanuel" (which means, God with us). But he chose not to. In John chapter 1, later in the chapter, when Philip found Nathaniel, he said to Nathaniel that I have met Christ. And this is how he referred to it, he said, We have found Him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote. 15 [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. That is a litmus test of integrity in a preacher and in a ministry. Christology is the test. Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ. In fact, the Bible repeatedly points out that Jesus miracles were due to the empowering of the Holy Spiritnot Jesus own power (Lk. As paragraphs 250-252 of the Catechism explain: 250 During the first centuries the Church sought to clarify her Trinitarian faith, both to deepen her own understanding of the faith and to defend it against the errors that were deforming it. So, according to Revelation 19:10, Jesus is the theme of prophecy. This is what their leaders say, and I just picked out some of the leaders of this movement who have the largest influence. Hes suffering all that there is to suffer. Every early heresy that faced the church in its formative centuries- in the first four centuries of the church- every early heresy was an attack on the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. And some say thats twenty-five percent of the world Pentecostal charismatics was put at a hundred million. The Bible commands us in 1 Peter 3:15, "But set apart Christ as Lord in your hearts. Having said this, they neglected to mistranslate these passages from Genesis which has God speaking to Himself in the plural form. Kenneth Copeland, also ubiquitous in the Christian media, says this, and I quote, Why didnt Jesus openly proclaim Himself as God during His 33 years on earth? Its loving Christ. For a full exegesis of this passage, see comments on Romans 9:5. 1:13; 14:14). Note Isaiahs language closely: He believed that there would be a person who would be born, and yet he would be called Mighty God. This was a title he used of Yahweh (Isa. Your years neither go nor come; but ours both go and come, that all may come. As for the Revelation of the Trinity, although clues are provided in the Old Testament, it is not revealed to mankind until the coming of the Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ. Philosopher Paul Copan aptly illustrates this concept, when he writes, Imagine a spy on a dangerous mission, carrying in his mind top-secret information valuable to the enemy. In contrast to this, Peter was horrified at the thought of being worshiped, because he was just a man (Acts 10:25-26). Registered User Of course, this passage predicts the return of Jesusnot the Fatherand it calls him LORD (Yahweh). A perfect example of this point can be drawn from Luke 1:39-43: In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. If there is, on the other hand, an elevated preoccupation with the Bible, there will be an elevated pre-occupation with Christ, who is the theme. 4. John 1:1. 254 The divine persons are really distinct from one another. 96. And yet, upon entering the Temple, Jesus made the outrageous claim that his mortal body would replace the Temple (John 2:19-21). And thats a good thing, isnt it? Bowman, Robert M., and J. Ed. Tonight were going to look at James, the brother of our Lord, and have a wonderful time looking at that unlikely hero. In the gospel of John, youre going to find out Johns all about believing, believing, believing. Mt. And yet in the book of Mark we see Jesus asleep in the back of the boat, end quote. We say Muhammad was a demon-possessed man, an agent of hell to unleash lies, perversion, and slaughter on the world. Question What are the strongest biblical arguments for the divinity of Christ? Its loaded with reasons to believe. There was Monophysitism that says He is two natures that remain separated and are never united. Both of these verses refer to Yahweh God. Seven Reasons Why I Believe in THE FULL DIVINITY OF CHRIST by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley. While modern readers do not associate these mutual titles with divinity, it is important to point out that a first century Jew would immediately notice the comparisons, and this is the audience to whom Jesus made these enormous claims. But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. The people who truly know God listen to the people who speak the truth. If you fail to love the true Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 16, youre cursed. Most cults also deny that Christ is God. In every age, there are extensive and effective lies about the Lord Jesus Christ. 9:6). Accordingly, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions in order to comply with GDPR. 10:21). If there is a diminished interest in the Bible, there is a diminished interest in the One the Bible reveals. This essay will continue with that concept and will focus specifically on the Divinity of Jesus Christ, meaning that Jesus is God and is the second Person of the Blessed Trinity. 7:28-29). These two verses combine the terms Lord (kurios) and God (theos) demonstrating that Christ is distinct from the Father, and yet, fully God. 22:19). I will save the explanation of the Kingship of Jesus and the Church as the Kingdom of God for a later essay so that I can explore those concepts in great depth. Come and see. The Lord Jesus is not only the theme of the New Testament, but He is the theme of the Old Testament. Nashville: B & H Academic, 2009. Specifically, Arius held that the Son, or the Word, was created out of nothing, and that there was a time when He did not exist. God doesnt need anointing; He is anointing. This is why his religious audience tried to stone Jesus: They understood him to be making a claim to deity. 4:10; Heb. Moreover, he claimed that he would be the one dispensing the judgment (c.f. This is the true God and eternal life. In the same way, Jesus humanity didnt subtract from his deity; instead, it added to it. [10] This title meets the historical principle of dissimilarity. 45:23 with Phil. Remember, the Charismatic movement works well with aberrant views of Christ. The Divinity of lesus After establishing the full humanity of Jesus we still find an element in his life which transcends the hu- man. [8] When John tried to worship an angel (Rev. Another said Jesus comes and takes long walks with him on the beach. Were going to have a conference here next year on the Holy Spirit. And this movement of theirs is steady, for they never go back from what they have reached. Jesus made a number of indirect claims to deity. Rather, the Jesus they believed in was a man, and they, just as the Israelites did before them, believed in only one God, the Father. Since being received into the Church, he has shared his conversion story numerous times and has given numerous lectures about the Faith. I believe thats what the Bible teaches. Thus, we have to conclude that even if God were talking to the angels in the two other passages of Genesis, He could not have been talking to them about the creation of man and thus God had to have been speaking to Himself in the plural form and the Trinity is the most logical conclusion. However, the argument does not seem logical for Genesis 1:26 when God said concerning the creation of man, Let Us MAKE man in Our Image because that would imply then that the angels were co-creators of man with God and we have no evidence from Scripture or from any Jewish sources outside of Scripture to indicate this notion. The early Christians did not openly deny the divinity of Christ, for no such doctrine yet existed in the First Century and was largely ignored during the Second Century. 4:18; Rom. Elsewhere, when humans were called God or worshipped, they were offended (Acts 10:26; 14:11-15). There was Sabellianism that said that He didnt exist as a person but was simply a mode in which God revealed Himself sometimes. Minneapolis, MN. That used to bug me. Well, thats a good question- Im glad you asked it. Im quoting from the seven-volume work called The History of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints - seven-volume work- Im quoting Joseph Smith from that. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.. [11] Therefore, whenever the New Testament authors refer to Jesus as Lord, they are using the same word that Jewish translators used for Yahweh in the Old Testament.