Putting Jesus in His Place Quotes

“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
(Isa. 45:22)”
― Robert Bowman, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ

“The word that the NIV translates "made his dwelling" (eskenosen) literally meant to pitch one's tent in a place, and it alludes in this context to God's dwelling among the Israelites in the tabernacle. The tabernacle essentially was a tent where God made his presence known to the Israelites and met with them. Before the Israelites constructed the tabernacle, Moses would pitch an ordinary tent away from the camp and meet God there (Exod. 33:7-11). When the tabernacle was finished, "the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle" (Exod. 40:35).6 Later, the temple served the same purpose as the tabernacle (cf. Ps. 74:7).”
― Robert Bowman, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ

“When Christians affirm that Jesus is God, they are simply being faithful to the explicit teaching of the Bible. After all, the New Testament does, indeed, call Jesus Christ "God," not once, but several times. It also affirms that Jesus is "Lord," repeatedly doing so in contexts that equate Jesus with YHWH, the God of the Old Testament. In addition, the New Testament assigns a variety of other divine names or titles to Jesus (such as Bridegroom, Savior, and the first and the last). It gives Jesus all these names in the broader setting of a pervasive attitude of exalting the name of Jesus above every other name. If we are to be faithful to the teaching of the Bible, we must acknowledge Jesus Christ as our great God and Savior.”
― Robert Bowman, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ

“Second, the New Testament calls Jesus "Savior" in conjunction with the divine titles "Lord" and "God." The description of Jesus as "our Lord and Savior" (2 Peter 1:11; 2:20; 3:2, 18) is familiar to most Christians (see also Luke 2:11; Phil. 3:20). The New Testament also calls Jesus "our great God and Savior" (Titus 2:13) and "our God and Savior" (2 Peter 1:1).' This conjunction of the titles God and Savior is especially noteworthy, since in a majority of occurrences of the word Savior in the Greek Old Testament it is similarly conjoined with God in reference to YHWH (Dent. 32:15; Pss. 25:5; 27:9; 62:2, 6; 65:5; 79:9; 95:1; Isa. 12:2; 17:10; 45:15, 21; Mic. 7:7; Hab. 3:18). In light of this Old Testament usage, the suggestion that Paul or Peter could call Jesus "our God and Savior" and mean someone inferior to YHWH is simply untenable.”
― Robert Bowman, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ

“Speaking of the preexistent Son under the designation of the Word (Logos), the apostle John asserts, "All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being" (John 1:3, emphasis added). The second clause states explicitly and emphatically that there is no exception to the universal statement of the first clause: not so much as one thing came into being except through Christ, the Word. No more sweeping, explicit statements can be imagined. Absolutely everything that was created, that "came into being," did so in and through Christ. If every created thing owes its existence to the Son, then the Son himself cannot be a created being.”
― Robert Bowman, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ

“For the early Christians, the Psalms were about their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Any songs or hymns or psalms that the early Christians might have composed about Christ or to Christ merely supplemented the inspired hymnbook of Israel, now appropriated by the church as its own collection of hymns about Christ. Then, as now, Jesus Christ was the center of the religious music of the church-yet in a way that never detracted from the glory of God or compromised biblical monotheism.”
― Robert Bowman, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ

“The repudiation of giving angels worship in Revelation, then, reflects the broader first-century Jewish cultural norm. "The reprimand, put into the mouth of the angel himself, serves to define the devotion to the one God of Israel more precisely: even allied beings who serve God's purposes must not be worshiped .112' By rejecting the practice of worshiping angels, the book of Revelation makes it even clearer that the practice of worshiping Jesus puts
him on a par with God.”
― Robert Bowman, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ

“-hen we think of giving God the honor due him, we naturally think of worship. Does the Bible teach us to worship Jesus Christ? Most definitely. Acknowledging the deity of Christ is not merely a matter of referring to him as "God" but more importantly is a matter of responding to him in worship.”
― Robert Bowman, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ

“In the end, though, a lack of appreciation of Jesus' identity as God makes him less approachable.”
― Robert Bowman, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ