“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God” (Eph 3:14-19).

The top priority of every Christian cult is to redefine the deity of Yeshua. Yeshua is “demoted” from being fully God and Creator to a creature of lesser status. The “enlightened” leaders of these cults aways claim to have figured out what the original Greek of a particular verse really means (or doesn’t mean), and why the church has failed to understand this for two thousand years.

But the deity of Yeshua doesn’t just depend on the handful of verses where it is explicitly affirmed (e.g., John 1:1), but also on the dozens of verses where his deity is implicitly assumed. Ephesians 3:14-19 is one such passage. In this passage, Paul prays for us to know something which surpasses knowledge. Yeshua’s infinite love for us! But how can a finite being created by God love us with an infinite love? Could Paul ever claim to love us in such a way without being a liar and/or committing the sin of blasphemy? Is there a single verse in all of Scripture which makes this claim about the love of a prophet or an angel? No! No! No!

Only the Infinite God Has the Capacity to Love Infinitely

For Paul to speak about Yeshua’s immeasurable love for us is to say Yeshua must be God! And the truth of Yeshua’s immeasurable love for me is the one truth which has radically changed my life more than any other. It gives me power over sin, and a desire to live for God. It assures me I have worth and meaning in this very large universe.

So, while these cultists wax eloquent about what John 1:1 means and doesn’t mean in the original Greek, we are constantly being reminded of Yeshua’s true biblical identity through the mouths of babies whenever they sing:

“Yes, Jesus loves me; Yes, Jesus loves me; Yes, Jesus loves me; the Bible tells me so!”