Resurrection proves true Son; know Christ as God

how is he not truly Son, attested by the resurrection from the dead? For he has been raised not as a common human like us, but as stronger than death, inasmuch as he is also life and God.

About those who worship the creature rather than the Creator he says: “Because, knowing God, they did not glorify him as God or give thanks, but became futile in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened; claiming to be wise, they became fools.”

Paul writes somewhere to those called from the nations — that is, to us: “But now, knowing God — or rather, being known by God.” Whom, then, have we come to know through faith, if not wholly Jesus Christ? So if we have known him as God and glorify him as God, we have been enlightened according to the truth; but if we exchange his glory, we too have become futile in our reasonings.

For if we have believed in him at all, we believe as in God — or else we must confess outright that we are still held in the snares of the ancient deceit, bringing faith to a common human. But that is not the truth.

“And just as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God handed them over to an unapproved mind, to do what is not fitting.” If we have known Christ as God, yet reject the glory due him by calling him a common human — if we dare that from ignorance — we will walk with the others into an unapproved mind.

“But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and of the revelation and right judgment of God, who will repay each according to his works.” The blessed Paul says “all of us”