Yes, Christian theology teaches that God identifies Jesus as God, though not always with the exact phrase "Jesus is God"; biblical passages show Jesus sharing divine attributes, being called God by others (like Thomas), and claiming divine authority, with the New Testament portraying Him as both fully God and fully man (the Incarnation). Key verses include John 1:1 ("The Word was God"), John 20:28 (Thomas's confession), Hebrews 1:8 (God calls the Son "God"), and Isaiah 9:6 (prophecy of "Mighty God").
We do know that Jesus said He existed before Abraham (John 8:58). He claimed that He and His Father are one (John 10:30), and that He is equal with the Father (John 5:17-18). Not only did He claim to be God, but He also claimed to have the power of God.
God did not call Jesus God in Hebrews 1:8, although some Bible scholars think so and therefore translate the verse, for example, like this in the New King James Version.
In Christian theology, God and Jesus are not the same person, but they are the same God, understood through the doctrine of the Trinity: one God existing as three distinct, co-equal, and co-eternal persons—the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. Jesus is fully God and fully human, divine in nature but distinct from God the Father, with roles in salvation, yet united in essence as one God.
[Codex Sinaiticus] in John 1:18 refers to Christ as the “only-begotten God.” How can anyone claim that one that is begotten is at the same time essential God, equal in every respect to God the Father, and to God the Holy Spirit? This makes Christ to be a created Being.
1 John 5:20 is one of the handful of grammatically ambiguous passages in the New Testament that either calls Jesus "God" (theos) or distinguishes Jesus from God.
JESUS IS GOD IN THE FLESH
We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." This verse is the culmination of John's discourse as he completes his introduction of Jesus by proclaiming His humanity in the midst of His divinity.
In Christianity, you pray to God (the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), but the common pattern is to pray to the Father through Jesus (the Son) in the power of the Holy Spirit, as Jesus is the mediator, yet you can also speak directly to Jesus or the Spirit as distinct persons of the Trinity, as they are one God. Jesus taught to pray to the Father (e.g., The Lord's Prayer), but the Bible also shows people praying directly to Jesus (e.g., Stephen, Paul), and praying to any person of the Trinity is praying to God.
Each person is fully god, eternal, uncreated and equal in power and glory. The second person of the trinity is called 'the son' not because he was made by the father or in some way inferior to him but in order to differentiate between the persons of the godhead. He didn't become 'the son' at the incarnation.
Jesus relied on the Father metaphor because it made sense within His culture and time. He transformed the meaning of the word for his time to call His people and the Gentiles to a true relationship with a caring, personal God, as Scripture affirmed.
Of the Christian deists who look upon Jesus as the Son of God, (but not God himself), the Christian aspect of their faith is drawn from three main aspects of prior Christian thought.
Christians generally believe that this narrative is historically true. While there has been theological debate over the nature of Jesus, Trinitarian Christians believe that Jesus is the Logos, God incarnate (God in human form), God the Son, and "true God and true man"—fully divine and fully human.
He is eternal, omnipresent, omniscient, unchanging, holy, and sinless. These are all characteristics of God, yet they are attributed to Jesus. Jesus ASSERTED he was God. The Jews understood this was what Jesus meant because they tried to stone him after he claimed it.
Jesus prayed to God the Father because it was an appropriate, natural, and essential part of His mission on earth. His prayers set an example for us to grow in intimacy with our Heavenly Father.
So while Jesus didn't always use the exact words “I am God” in a modern sense, His words and actions were clear to His audience. He claimed divinity in a way they understood, and that's why they responded as they did.
The Lord Jesus Christ is thus Son of God by miraculous conception and virgin birth, by heavenly proclamation, by His uniquely perfect human nature, by divine inheritance, and by triumphant resurrection.
In the most basic terms, the concept of hypostatic union states that Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully man. He is simultaneously perfectly divine and perfectly human, having two complete and distinct natures at once.
There is only one God, who exists in three distinct Persons: God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Together, they form the Holy Trinity, sharing the same essence. This means they share the same divine nature but have different roles and relationships within the Godhead.
So since the Father is the only true God according to Jesus, it is the Father that Jesus is referring to as the only One whom we should worship and serve. We should all understand what it means to worship and serve someone. To put it simply, it means to obey His every command.
Yes, for the vast majority of Christians, Jesus is considered to be both fully God and fully human, a concept known as the Hypostatic Union, meaning He is one person with two natures, divine and human, and is the incarnation of God. This core belief, rooted in the Trinity doctrine (one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), is supported by biblical passages where Jesus is called God, accepts worship, and performs divine works, while also experiencing human needs like hunger and weariness.
Therefore, the evidence is straightforward enough: Jesus explicitly claimed to be God, those listening to him clearly understood him to be claiming that he was God and Jesus at no point disabuses them of any misunderstanding they have reached.
Despite a majority of Americans affirming a Trinitarian God with three divine persons, most still aren't sure about how that applies to Jesus or the Holy Spirit. Slightly more than half (55%) believe Jesus is the first and greatest created being. Another 53% say He was a great teacher but not God.