To help people identify who is the glorious Lord, God does things only the Creator can do, like writing down history in advance.
Professor Peter W. Stoner conservatively calculated the odds of just eight messianiac prophecies written by Hebrew prophets coming true. He found the odds of any one man who lived from the time that the prophecies were made until the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies, is 1 in 10 to the seventeenth power.
To illusrated the magnitude of this number..... suppose we took an atheistic professor, blindfolded him and covered the state of Texas two feet deep with silver dollars. Then we put a check on one of those silver dollars and mixed them up. The odds of one person fulfilling just these eight prophecies would be the same as this atheistic professor selecting the silver dollar upon which we have placed a check, in his first try.
But there are not eight, but some 300 – 350 prophecies which were written in the Old Testament to help us identify which person is the promised Messiah.
Jesus encourages this aspect of investigation:
John 5:39, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me…”
Of course this is aside from the many public miracles he performed such as raising himself and others from the dead.
But, this isn't the point of this thread. The point of this thread is that, contrary to the Watchtower, Jesus is the Christians' object of worship. God created the angels and people and animals much like I create a batch of oatmeal cookies in my kitchen. I did not beget the cookies I simply created them. My sons are different. I begat them. They possess exactly 50% of my DNA essence. I did not create them. They are from me and of me and not by me. My oatmeal cookies are made by Perry, but my sons are from Perry and not made by Perry.
Heb. 1:5 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?
None. Jesus is the ONLY begotten. God's essence, by its very nature as God cannot be divided - him being omnipresent. So, Jesus is fully God, posessing God's essence and fully man as the son of Mary in the flesh. Worshiping Jesus is identical to worshipping Jehovah since they have one in the same essence.
Our God is one.
