JESUS CHRIST: GOD-MAN - Vital Christianity

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The New World Translation of the Jehovah's Witnesses quote professor A. T. Robertson
as being authoritative in matters of the Greek language. Yet Robertson states that eimi is
"absolute." This means there is no predicate expressed with it. This usage occurs four other times
in John (8:24,58; 13:19; 18:5). This term (the Hebrew phrase "I (am) He") is also the same that
is used by the Septuagint in its rendering of Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 43:10; and Isaiah 46:4.
This phrase then, is a claim to full and equal deity.
The Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Interlinear which shows the Greek words actually
contradicts their own position since it correctly translates ego eimi with the words "I am"
directly beneath. However, they perpetuate their faulty interpretation by placing "I have been" in
the column to the right as another possible, even preferable, reading.
What Jesus declares is that, although His earthly life lasted less than fifty years, His
existence as a person (ego) is constant and independent of any beginning in time. With this
simple verb Jesus testifies to the divine, eternal preexistence of His person.
SUMMARY OF NAMES AND TERMS EXPRESSING JESUS' DEITY
● God (Isa 7:14; 9:6; Jn 1:1,14; 20:28; Heb 1:8).
● Alpha and Omega, the First and Last, the Beginning and the End.
(Isa 41:4; 44:6; Rev 1:17-18; 2:8)
● Lord (Isa 45:22-24; 1 Co 12:3; Php 2:10-11).
● One Lord (Zec 14:9; 1 Co 8:6).
● Lord of Glory (Lk 9:32; 24:26; Jn 1:11,14; 12:41; 17:5; Ac 7:1; 1 Co 2:8;
1 Th 3:16; Heb 1:3; 1 Pe1:21).
● King (1 Ti 6:14-16; Rev 17:14; 19:16).
● King of Glory (Ps 24:10; 1 Co 2:8; Jas 2:1).
● Judge (Gn 18:25; Joel 3:12; Ro 2:3; 14:10; 2 Co 5:10; Jas 4:12; 5:8-9).
● Eternal (Isa 9:6; Mic 5:2; Jn 8:58).
● Immanuel (Isa 7:14; Mt 1:22-23).
● Holy One (Isa 43:3; Ac 3:14).