1. 'We know that the Son of God is come. This is the true God and life eternal' (1 John v. 20). 'Christ who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen' (Rom. ix. 5).
2. 'In Him [Christ] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporally'—i.e., substantially (Col. ii. 9). Of Christ, the Son of God, St. John says: 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was made nothing that was made' (John i. 1-3). 'In Him [Christ] were all things created in Heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and in Him; and He is before all, and by Him all things consist' (Col. i. 16, 17). 'By His Son God made the world, who, being the brightness of His glory and the figure of His substance, upholds all things by the word of His power' (Hebr. i. 2, 3).
3. 'In the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth; and every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father' (Phil. ii. 10, 11). 'Let all the angels of God adore Him' (Hebr. i. 6).
The Apostles also confirmed their doctrine of the Divinity of Jesus by innumerable miracles which they wrought in the name of Jesus, and by the most stupendous of all miracles, the conversion of the world (Short Hist, of Revealed Rel., 28, 29, etc.).
34. What does the Catholic Church teach of Jesus Christ?
The Catholic Church has ever believed and taught that Jesus Christ is true God, and of one substance with God the Father; and in defence of this fundamental Christian doctrine, she composed, at the Council of Nice, a special Creed, and excommunicated those who taught the contrary. (See Short Hist, of Revealed Rel., 36.)
The holy Martyrs also professed this belief, and suffered with joy indescribable torments, nay, death itself, for it; and it often pleased God to confirm their possession by undeniable miracles. One of these is particularly remarkable. It took place in Africa in 484, and is attested by many unobjectionable eye-witnesses. For when Hunneric, King of the Arian Vandals, who most cruelly persecuted those who professed the Divinity of Christ, had had the tongues of the orthodox Christians of the city of Tipisa torn out, they spoke without tongues as fluently and distinctly as before, and proclaimed everywhere that Jesus Christ is true God, and of one substance with the Father.
