Jesus Is God Forever

The critics say, "Nay! Jesus is not God!
While on earth, He never said that He was;
Roman Constantine, when he held the rod,
Promoted Him, for his own selfish cause!
Wrong! Jesus called Himself "the Son of Man,"
For us to understand, without a doubt,
That we, though tempted like Him, pure can stand;
To fulfill prophecy, the King who holds out
Is like son of man, not a beast who crawled!
At His trial, Caiaphas asked, "Are you Christ?"
"I am," He said, the blaspheme that so galled
The priests, that to the cross Jesus was triced!
He's Lord of the Sabbath, then and today;
He forgives sins then, and on Judgment Day!

Some scholars say Jesus never claimed that He was divine, was only man, though one to be respected and maybe a prophet. They say that Emperor Constantine (reigned 306-324AD) dreamed of a cross the night before a crucial battle; ordered one carried before his army and won; therefore, he promoted Jesus from a man to God and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. This was despite the fact that tens of thousands of Christians had been martyred by his predecessors. Also, note that though Christ's own people crucified Him because He was not a military conqueror of Rome but gentle and meek, He did conquer Rome with His gentle ways by 312AD. That Jesus was actually both fully God and fully man was confirmed by the Catholic Church at the Council of Nicea in 325.

Another reason given to support this false claim is that Jesus never claimed to be divine, and when His apostles called Him Christ, He told them not to tell that to anybody. That admonition was meant to be only temporary, until His resurrection and the Jews had actually rejected Him. Isaiah 6:9-10 describes God's judgment on Israel to make them callous and dulled in spiritual insight so that they would not accept Him, and His plan for salvation would be exrended from Israel only to every person on earth. So Jesus used "the Son of Man" to refer to Himself 81 times in the gospels, more than any other appelation.

"In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like the son of man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was let into his presence. He was given authority, g;lory and universal power; all peoples, nations, and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed." (Daniel 7:11-14)

Daniel 7 describes the coming Kingdom of God, launched by Jesus when He came to earth the first time, and every Jewish religionist knew it intimately. Jesus uses Son of Man deliberately as a title to connect Himself with the old prophesies of the coming of Messiah. Everybody that knew Jesus either hated, feared, or adored Him; they reacted to Him as they would to God. Constantine and the Catrholic Church were much too late to make Jesus God.