61) Finding the Deity of Christ in the Old Testament, Part 2, The Apostles

In the previous episode, "Finding the Deity of Christ in the Old Testament, Part 1", we saw that Jesus believed that the Old Testament spoke of the death and resurrection of the Messiah, not deity.  

In this episode we examine the sermons of Peter and Paul as recorded in the Book of Acts to see if they ever appealed to Old Testament Scriptures to find evidence for the deity of Christ.  We discover that the apostles, like Jesus, never appealed to the Old Testament in an effort to find evidence for the deity of Jesus Christ. Rather, like Jesus, the apostles appealed to Old Testament Scriptures to declare the death and resurrection of 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.

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One God believers can and should challenge those who appeal to the Old Testament for evidence of the deity of Christ:

Jesus never appealed to the Old Testament in an effort to prove the deity of Christ. Why are you?

Jesus never appealed to the Old Testament in an effort to prove that God is triune. Why are you?

Do you know better than Jesus and the New Testament authors?  What is your source, since it is not the Bible?