60) Finding the Deity of Christ in the Old Testament is not a New Testament Exercise, Part 1: Jesus

Jesus believed that the prophets spoke of the death and resurrection of the Messiah, not deity.

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, in this episode we see if Jesus appealed to the Torah of Moses, the Prophets or the Writings (the Old Testament) to declare his "deity". 

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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?