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YOU CAN POSITIVELY KNOW JESUS IS GOD

End Notes

INTRODUCTION

¹We don’t worship the fact that God created the world. We worship the God who in fact created the world.

²See: Norman Childs, Sr. America’s Providential Heritage, Childs Family Publications, Olney, IL 62450, 2005, pp. 11-14.

CHAPTER ONE

¹See: Norman Childs, Sr. You Can Know There is a God in Heaven and the Bible is His Word, Childs Family Publications, Olney, IL 62450, 2002, pp. 87f.

CHAPTER TWO

¹See: Norman Childs, Sr. America’s Providential Heritage, Childs Family Publications, Olney, IL 62450, 2005, pp. 11-14.

² Art Gabot Madlaing, The Historicity of Jesus and the Reliability of the New Testament, San Francisco, California, August 18, 2004.

³ Thallus 52 A.D.

⁴ Mara-Bar-Serapion 73 A.D.

⁵C. Plinius Secundus 112 A.D.

⁶C. Plinius Secundus 112 A.D.

⁷Talmuds 70-200 A.D.

⁸Josephus wrote of Pilate, Quirinius of Syria, of the Caesars, the Herods, the Pharisees, and the Sadducees, of Annas, Caiaphas, Felix, Festus, James the brother of Jesus and the death of John the Baptist.

⁹ Norman Childs Sr., You Can Know There is a God in Heaven and the Bible is His Word, Childs Family Publications, 2002, p. 159ff.

CHAPTER THREE

¹John 1:24-34 “Now some Pharisees who had been sent questioned him, ‘Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet? ’ ‘I baptize with water,’ John replied, ‘but among you stands one you do not know. He is the one who comes after me, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’ This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.”

“The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.’ Then John gave this testimony: ‘I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God.’”

²John 1:35-51 “The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!" When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, "What do you want?" They said, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?" "Come," he replied, "and you will see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour. Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, "We have found the Messiah" (that is, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which, when translated, is Peter). The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, "Follow me." Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote-Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." "Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathanael asked. "Come and see," said Philip. When Jesus

saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false." "How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you." Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel." Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that." He then added, "I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

³John 2:3-5 “Jesus' mother said to him, ‘They have no more wine.’ ‘Dear woman, why do you involve me?’ Jesus replied. ‘My time has not yet come.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’”

CHAPTER FOUR

¹John 3:1:12 “Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.’ In reply Jesus declared, ‘I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.’ ‘How can a man be born when he is old?’ Nicodemus asked. ‘Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!’ Jesus answered, ‘I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.’ ‘How can this be?’ Nicodemus asked, ‘You are Israel's teacher,’ said Jesus, ‘and do you not understand these things? I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?’”

²John 7:32-52 “The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him… Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him in?" "No one ever spoke the way this man does," the guards declared. "You mean he has deceived you also?" the Pharisees retorted. "Has any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law-there is a curse on them." Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, "Does our law condemn anyone without first hearing him to find out what he is doing?" They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.’”

³John 19:38-41 “Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate's permission, he came and took the body away. He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds (100# KJV). Taking Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.”

⁴Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor, Here’s Life Publishers, INC., San Bernardino, CA., 1981, p 52.

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

¹ The Greek word means “descend.”

CHAPTER TEN

¹Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor, Here’s Life Publishers, INC., San Bernardino, CA., 1981, p. 52.

²“The Bezane manuscripts...has 20 men could not roll away.” “ ...the size needed to roll against a 4-1/2’-to– 5’ doorway...would have to have a minimum weight of 1-1-1/2 –to-2 tons.” Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor, Here’s Life Publishers, INC., San Bernardino, CA., 1981, pp. 53, 54.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

¹“The Bezane manuscripts...has 20 men could not roll away.” “ ...the size needed to roll against a 4-1/2’-to– 5’ doorway...would have to have a minimum weight of 1-1-1/2 –to-2 tons.” Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor, Here’s Life Publishers, INC., San Bernardino, CA., 1981, pp. 53, 54.

^2”The Temple police...The total number of men on duty was 270. ...if the captain approached a guard member who was asleep, he was beaten and burned with his own cloths. A member of the guard also was forbidden to sit down or to lean against something when he was on duty.”

“The force of the Roman guard… A Roman guard unit was a 4-to-16-man security force. Each man was trained to protect six feet of ground. The 16 men in a square of four on each side were supposed to be able to protect 36 yards against an entire battalion and hold it. Normally what they did was this: four men were placed immediately in front of what they were to protect. The other were asleep in a semi-circle in front of them with their heads pointing in. To steal what these guards were protecting, thieves would first have to walk over those who were asleep. Every four hours, another unit of four awakened, and those who had been awake wnt to sleep… Guards in ancient times always slept in shifts so it would have been virtually impossible for a raiding party to have stepped over all their sleeping faces without waking them.” Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor, Here’s Life Publishers, INC., San Bernardino, CA., 1981, pp. 53-57.

³ “...the seal stood for the power and authority of the Roman Empire. The consequences of breaking the seal were severe….When they were apprehended, it meant automatic execution by crucifixion upside down.” Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor, Here’s Life Publishers, INC., San Bernardino, CA., 1981, pp. 53-57.

⁴Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor, Here’s Life Publishers, INC., San Bernardino, CA., 1981, p. 57.

You Can Positively know Jesus is God