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Sound Reasoning Leads to God
and

Jesus, The Son of God
By
The Rev. V. H. Krull, C.PP.S., LL.B.

Ottawa, Ohio
1933

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IMPRIMI POTEST:
Ignatius A. Wagner, C.PP.S.
Mod. Prov.

NIHIL OBSTAT:
L. Griffin
Censor Deputatus
IMPRIMATUR:
ψ Karl J. Alter
Bishop of Toledo, Ohio

Feast of the Immaculate Conception
December 8.
Copyright, 1933
by
Rev. V. H. Krull, c.pp.s.

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Preliminary Remark
I consider it my duty to publicly acknowledge the
many helpful suggestions which I have received on the
manuscript of this little brochure from the Most Rev.
Karl J. Alter, D.D., Bishop of Toledo; from the
Very Rev. Ignatius A. Wagner, C.PP.S., Ph.D., Mod.
Provincial of the American Society of the Precious Blood;
and from the Rev. Joseph Rohling, C.PP.S., S.T.D., Pro­
fessor of Dogmatic Theology and Patrology at St.
Charles’ Seminary, Carthagena, Ohio.

May the reader of “Sound Reasoning Leads to God”
and of the article following it, “Jesus, the Son of God”,
reap the full benefit of this message, which I consider
opportune and necessary.
The Author.

SOUND REASONING LEADS TO GOD
There are quite a number of persons in this country
who do not practice any religion. They are not members
of any church. They imagine that religion is based up­
on sentimentality.
Many of these persons would practice religion if
they could find any reason for doing so. They do not
know that there are sound basic proofs for the existence
of God, for the divinity of Christ, and for the mission
of the true Church. Perhaps you get in contact with
some of these unbelievers. You can do them a good turn
by acquainting them with the proofs contained in this
booklet. Sound reasoning leads to God. The examples
adduced in the argumentation on the existence of God
are suggestive of similar examples. In fact, the reader
should bring similar arguments to his mind and follow
the method of argumentation. We use the example of a
watch to prove that there is a watchmaker. We might
just as well use the example of a shoe to prove that there
is a shoemaker, or the example of a wagon to prove that
there is a wagon maker. All of this may be used as a
means to realize the fact that every effect has a cause.
When we behold a thing we know that that thing was
caused by something or somebody.
When we see a thing in motion we know that some­
body or something started the thing to move. The whole
universe is in motion. Who started it to move? The
Prime-mover is God.

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WHO IS GOD AND WHERE IS HE?

1. Cause and Effect
That watch was made. You know that it did not
come together by itself. Perhaps you have never met
the man who made it. Nevertheless you know that some
one made the watch, and that it would be foolish to
say: “I don’t believe that anyone made my watch, be­
cause I did not see it.” How do you know then that
there is a watchmaker and has been one, though you never
saw him? You know it by the watch which was made.
By the thing made we prove that there must be a maker.
In other words, by the effect we argue the cause.
Look about in nature. No matter whither we look,
we see how one thing is caused by another. The change
of weather, the recurrence of the seasons, the sprouting
of the flower, the birth among animals, the numerical
growth of mankind; all of these are effects produced by
their respective causes. There is a cause for everything.
Now, all these things, as we observe, have a beginning and
come to an end. We are all finite beings. There was a
time when neither you nor I existed. None of us existed
a hundred years ago. There was a time when our parents
did not as yet exist, neither their parents, nor any of
their ancestors. Thus going back from parent to parent,
we come to a period when no human being existed. The
first man had no parents. How did he come into ex­
istence? He could not make himself, because he did
not exist. No human being existed; therefore, some one

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else was the cause of his coining into existence. The First
Cause of man’s existence we call God. God created man.

In charity I do not presume that you are an evolu­
tionist. Material Evolutionists hold that man descended
from lower forms of life, namely animal forms, and even
go so far as to claim that living matter has been evolved
out of non-living matter.
The First Cause of all created things we call God.
Trace the pedigree of an animal to the utmost.
Finally, wTe behold the first. That first animal evidently
was not bom. How did it come into existence?
Take the trees. Some of them developed from the
planted seed. That seed came from another tree; that
tree from another seed, and so on and on until we come
to the first tree. It could not come by itself. Who caused
that tree to be? That First Cause we call God.

God is the First Cause of all created beings; God
is our Creator. He gave us existence and caused all
things by which we are kept alive. God is He who gave
us being and life and keeps us in existence, keeps us alive.
He is the author of our being and of all the good in
existence.

From the existence of finite beings, going back to
the start, we come to the knowledge of an infinite selfexistent Being, the creator of all; we come to the knowl­
edge of God. Moreover we come to the knowledge that
He who brought beings into existence must be omnipo­
tent, all-powerful; and that He must exist independent
of creation, an all-sufficient, intelligent, eternal, perfect

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Being. Reason tells us before the world was made, or any­
thing was in it, God existed. Therefore He does not de­
pend upon the things which He created.

2. Motion and Moving Power
An automobile speeds along the road, or a majestic
passenger train runs at a tremendous rate. You see it and
admire the speed. You know for certain, that neither the
train nor the auto started by itself. You know that some­
one set it into motion. Motion presupposes a mover, no
matter who or what that may be. By itself nothing can
move which belongs to inanimate nature. Motion is the
effect of a moving cause. All the world is in motion; and
all that is in it moves along with it through space im­
measurable. The stir of a soft evening breeze as well as
the howling hurricane indicates motion. The light of the
sun, which we see every day, is another proof of great
motion.Light travels at the tremendous speed of 186,000
miles a second. The clouds in the sky, the stars in the
firmament are moving along continually. Even the tiny
blade of grass by its slow growth is in motion. Growth,
be it ever so slow, is in motion. From the remotest heaven­
ly planets to the most humble creature on earth, motion
is everywhere. We behold the earth vibrating and pulsat­
ing from end to end, from day to day, from year to year,
incessantly in motion. If we reflect for a moment, we
understand plainly that there must be one, who caused
the first motion; and this Prime-mover we call God. One
thing moves another; but the first thing could not move
unless it was put into motion. The motion in the world

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argues a Prime-mover, proclaims the existence and action
of God, in whom “we live and move and are.” Acts 17:28.

3. Necessity and Contingency
The answer to the question, who is God? may be
this: God is the necessary Being. That sounds rather phi­
losophical. It means the same as saying: God must exist
and does exist; the universe may exist and does exist.
Real truth always excludes error. In this, mathematical
and metaphysical truth are alike. Nevertheless, there is a
vast difference between our perception of truth. We know
that some statements are so evidently true that they can­
not be otherwise; two times two must be four. That is
a necessary fact. We cannot even think it to be otherwise.

Now I give you another fact. Here is the statement:
Chicago is built near Lake Michigan. This is a fact, but
we can easily see that Chicago might have been built
somewhere else. That the world exists is a contingent
fact. Anything in the world occupies space for a while.
There is a tree in the field. That is a contingent fact
only, for we see instantly that it might be otherwise.
Thus it is with every part of the universe; and what is
true of its constituent parts is true of the whole uni­
verse. The existence of the world is a contingent fact.
A contingent fact always presupposes a cause, which deitermined it so. There is a man with a red nose. That
■his nose is red is a contingent fact. Now that presupposes
.a cause. The cause may be found across the bar, or it
may be due to sickness. The world exists, but not nec­
essarily so. Reason tells us there must be a Being who

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determined its existence, and this is the necessary Be­
ing, whom we call God, the Creator of heaven and earth.

4. Perfection, Relative and Absolute
By the comparative perfection in nature, we can
argue to the fact that God is a perfect Being. There is
an old Latin adage: “Nemo dat, quod non habet. No
one can give what he has not.” No cause can convey to
its effect what it has not. But he may have the cause of
it in a higher and nobler form. To illustrate: there is a
beautiful picture painted by an artist. People admire
this masterpiece. Not the paint, but the mind of the
artist is the efficient cause of that masterpiece. The con­
ception of his mind he put on canvas. The picture repre­
sents a Saint. The artist thought of the virtues, of the
kindness, of the heroism, and many other noble qualities
of a Saint. By this painting the spiritual thought ap­
pears in material shape. In a more eminent manner all
that is contained in the picture was contained in the idea
of the artist. The perfections of the masterpiece reflect
the idea and skill of the artist. The artist gave shape
and expression to it in the color on the canvas. No one
can confer a perfection, which he does not in some way
or other possess.
The world is God’s creation. There is a great deal
of beauty in this world. God who caused it must be beau­
tiful. He must possess beauty in a more eminent degree.
There is power in the world. God who caused it must
be powerful. There is intelligence in creatures. In the
Creator we find it in all its perfection. There is wisdom

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displayed in the harmony of this world. The Creator
thereof must be more eminently wise. The perfections
found in the effect argue to the perfections of the cause.
By the comparisons we make of relative value and
perfections in nature, we unconsciously profess our be­
lief in God. Some of the things in this world are better
than others. Some are more beautiful than others; some
are more powerful, and so on. It is all comparative, show­
ing degrees of perfection. Higher and lower, good and
bêtter, more or less are plainly relative terms. That im­
plies that there must be a standard somewhere in rela­
tion to which a thing has comparative perfection. A rel­
ative perfection without an absolute perfection is rank
nonsense; for relative thus used always indicates a com­
parison with the absolute. That absolute standard of
perfection is such that no higher degree of perfection can
be possible; it is infinite perfection. Therefore the rel­
ative perfections found in this world prove the existence
of infinite perfections, which are not found in the crea­
tion but must be found and are found in the Creator, in
God. God is infinitely perfect. As to duration God is
eternal. As to His manifestations God is all-powerful,
all-knowing, all-wise, all-just, all-merciful, the Creator
and Preserver of every creature.

5. Design
No matter what thing in nature we analyze we
find symmetry in its construction. There is symmetry in
a snowflake, in a crystal and in all vegetation. In every­
thing we behold construction, the adjustment of parts for

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the fulfillment of a given purpose. Everything in nature
has a specific tendency. We cannot help to observe laws
in nature, neither can we refrain from admiring the grand
mechanism in the heavenly bodies and in things on earth.
That presupposes an Intelligent Adjuster who designed
with a purpose; and He is God.

6. Law and Lawgiver
One of the laws of nature is the law of gravitation,
whereby all matter tends toward the center of the earth.
Water runs downhill no matter what people decree. Sup­
posing the whole world would demand that water run
uphill ; that demand is futile because the laws of nature
are not depending upon man’s likes and dislikes. This
also includes centrifugal force, etc. Who made this law?
Man could not make it. The author of this law we call
God. Wherever there is a law, there must be a lawgiver.

7. Conscience
Our conscience tells us that certain things are right,
and other things are wrong for us to do. There is a law
of right, as well as of truth. Every human being, not
deprived of good common sense, knows that there is a
natural law of right and wrong. Like all natural laws it
is not and was not made by man. The author of all
nature is the author of that law. There can be no law
without a lawgiver. Our conscience tells us of the law.
A little reasoning leads us to the conclusion that
there cannot be a law without a lawgiver, and since
this law is not made by man, it must be made

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by some other intelligent personal Being. This Being we
call God. Our conscience tells us what we ought to do,
what God wants us to do; that we must do good, obey
God’s will, and avoid sin, which is a transgression of
God’s laws. By its praise for the good done, and by its
rebuke for the evil, our conscience tells us that God as
a just Being demands an account of all our deliberate ac­
tions and omissions. As reason tells us that God is the
cause and destiny of our existence, so our conscience de­
cides within us whether we are tending to our destiny,
or not.

WHO IS GOD?
God is the prime cause of the whole universe and of
everything that is in it. God called everything into ex­
istence. He set His creation in motion and it is now
whirling around or about in space. God is the only Neces­
sary Being on whom all contingent beings depend for
their existence and sustenance. He is the absolutely per­
fect Being as proclaimed by the relative goodness and
perfection in creation. God is infinitely perfect and cre­
ated everything for a specific purpose. There is symmetry
and order in His creation. God is our Creator, our First
Cause and our Final Destiny. Reason, therefore, tells us
that God is our Creator, Preserver, our greatest Bene­
factor and that we owe Him gratitude for the favors re­
ceived. We depend on Him utterly. To deny the ex­

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istence of God is the same as to deny your common sense.
It is the same as to go contrary to the conviction upon
which your intellect acts under the voice of conscience.
Shutting your eyes against the light causes darkness; wil­
ful darkness, as far as you are concerned. Withhold the
use of your intellect and you are in the darkness of sinful
folly. The man who closes his eyes and then complains
that he cannot see is acting stupidly. The man who does
not reason, and in spite of all evidence does not know
anything about God, or even denies God, is Justly called
a fool. “The fool hath said in his heart: there is no
God.” Ps. 13:1.
If I observe a piece of paper whereon something is
written, I know that an intelligent person has expressed
his idea or at least some idea, a thought on matter.
Those material letters before me are evidence of an im­
material agency, thought conveyed on matter. When a
man walks I know he is alive. I do not see his soul, his
life-principal, but I notice its influence on the material
body that moves along. His soul is there.

WHERE IS GOD?
God’s handwriting is everywhere. God is on earth
in every place and in everything. The earth is full of
creatures. A creature is a manifestation of the Creator.
No creature can exist by itself; of necessity it needs
the support of the Creator. Ascend in spirit up to the
firmament and see the majestic orbs coursing along their

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designated orbits. God’s omnipotence keeps them there.
Where there is a display of His present omnipotent work,
there is God. Dive down into the depths of the sea and
behold the creatures on the bottom of the ocean. Who
provides for them and keeps them alive? There is the
work of God; God is there. God is everywhere. God
is infinite in all His perfections; there can be no limit
to His presence. Where is God? God is here. Though
you know it not, God is with you in every place. When
you sought the lonely place of sin and shame, you were
walking in God’s presence. God saw you. God sees and
observes you this very moment. Where is God? God is
visible to the Angels and Saints in Heaven; but He is
not only there, He is everywhere. Reason tells us that
an infinite self-existent Being cannot be limited.
“0 Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in
the whole earth.” Ps. 8:1.
“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee:
and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.
Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and
the fishes of the sea shall tell.
Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath
made all those things?
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and
the spirit of all flesh of man.
Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of
him that eateth, the taste?” Job 12:7-11.
“The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the
firmament declareth the work of His hands.

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Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night
sheweth knowledge.
There are no speeches nor languages, where their
voices are not heard.
Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and
their words to the ends of the world.” Ps. 18:1-5.
“For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast
perfected praise, before thy enemies, that thou mayest
destroy the enemy and the avenger.
For I will behold the heavens, the works of thy
fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.
What is man that thou art mindful of him? of the
son of man that thou visitest him?
Thou hast made him a little less than the angels,
thou hast crowned him with glory and honor: and hast
set him over the work of thy hands.
Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all
sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.
The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that
pass through the paths of the sea.
O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in all
the earth!” Ps. 8:2-10.
Oh what a lesson does that teach us! God sees me.
In need I am not entirely forsaken; God is with me.

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The following pages will adduce a few biblical testi­
monies for the divinity of Jesus Christ.
The belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ is not a
mere feeling; it is based upon the fact that God has
made this truth known.
God can reveal truths directly or indirectly through
His agents. When He speaks through another He sup­
plies this agent of His with the credentials necessary to
assure us of the fact that he is God’s spokesman. Such
credentials are holiness of life and loftiness of doctrine,
but especially miracles and prophecies. When a person
performs acts that can be performed only by the power
of God, or when he foretells with certainty future events
that can be known only by the foreknowledge of God,
and if he appeals to these miracles and prophesies as the
proof of the truth of his mission, we know that he is a
spokesman of God.
The prophets in the Old Testament had such creden­
tials. In the New Testament the Apostles had them.
When they worked miracles or prophecied they did so
by the power and knowledge which God communicated
to them. They acted in the name of God. They did
not profess to do so in their own name.

There has been one person, however, who worked
many miracles and who uttered many prophecies, and
did so in His own name. That person is Jesus Christ.
By His miracles and prophecies He proved that He-was
a spokesman of God. Therefore, what He taught must be

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true. And one of the truths that He taught is the fact
that He Himself is the true Son of God.
Jesus performed miracles in His own name. God
alone can do this. Therefore His miracles are evidences
of His divinity.
We have selected a few of the most telling testi­
monies of the divinity of Christ in this brochure. May
these few pages strengthen you in your faith and give
you convenient arguments for the belief in the divinity
of Jesus Christ.

Testimony of the Prophets
As a rule, the biography of a person is not written
till after his death, seldom during his lifetime, and never
before his birth. But wonderful to relate, the entire
life-story of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, was minutely told hundreds of years before His
birth. The Old Testament contains the entire life of
Jesus Christ in prophecy. Even the circumstances of His
life were told: namely, that He would be born of a Virgin,
in Bethlehem, during the time of universal peace, when
a star would appear in the East. His flight into Egypt
was foretold, His coming into the Temple, sitting among
the doctors and instructing them, His hidden life, and in
detail, His public life. The prophets in advance described
Him as a Good Shepherd, as a doer of wonderful works,
as a teacher, as a prophet, and as the Redeemer of the
world. His suffering, His agony, His death on the cross,
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Heaven, and the continuity of His Church; these and
many more things were foretold of Him and were literally
fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Testimony of St. Elizabeth
When the Blessed Virgin Mary visited Elizabeth,
St. John the Baptist was sanctified in his mother’s womb.
At that moment St. Elizabeth said among other things:
“Whence is this to me, that the Mother of my Lord
should come to me?” St. Luke 1: 43.

Testimony of St. John the Baptist
John saw Jesus coming to him, and he said: “Be­
hold the Lamb of God, behold him who taketh away
the sins of the world.” St. John 1: 29.

Testimony of His Heavenly Father
“And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of
the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to Him:
and he saw the spirit of God descending as a dove, and
coming upon Him. And behold a voice from heaven,
saying: “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well
pleased·” St. Matt. 3:16,17.

Testimony of Jesus Christ Himself
Jesus Christ gave ample proof of His Divinity. He
showed His unlimited powrer over the elements of nature.
Upon His command the water blushed into wine; loaves
of bread were miraculously multiplied, the bouncing

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waves of the sea served Him for a solid pathway as He
walked over them and came to His frightened Apostles,
who were struggling against the waves and the storm;
He commanded the wind and the waves, and there came
a great calm; He cursed the fig tree and it withered in­
stantly. All nature obeyed His commands. Therefore
He is the Lord of all nature.

He is supernatural. He cured the sick as He pleased
by His simple command. He restored eyesight to the
blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the mute and the
use of their limbs to the palsied, feverish, lepers and
cripples. He drove our devils and restored the dead to life.
Jairus with his wife and friends wept over the death of
his young daughter, a girl of twelve years. Jesus took
the dead girl by the hand and said: “Talitha cumi, which
is, being interpreted: Damsel, (I say to thee) arise. And
immediately the damsel rose up, and walked.” St. Mark
5:41,42. At another time, probably previous to this event,
we see Jesus at the gate of the city of Naim. “And
when He came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead
man was carried out, the only son of his mother; and
she was a widow; and a great multitude of the city was
with her. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved
with mercy towards her, He said to her: Weep not, and
He came near and touched the bier. And they that car­
ried it, stood still. And He said: Young man, I say to
thee, arise. And he that was dead, sat up and began to
speak. And He gave him to his mother.” St. Luke, 7:12,
15. Shortly before His bitter passion Jesus went out to

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the grave of Lazarus, who had been dead for four days.
In the presence of Lazarus’ sisters, Martha and Mary,
and in the presence of many persons, after the stone had
been removed from the sepulchre, Jesus “cried with a
loud voice: Lazarus, come forth. And presently he that
had been dead came forth, bound hands and feet with
the winding bands, and his face was bound about with
a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him, and let him
go. Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary
and Martha, and had seen the things that Jesus did, be­
lieved in Him.” St. John, 11: 43-45. Thus Jesus repeat­
edly gave proof of His omnipotence. He proved His
omniscence by the many contingent things which He
foretold and which have been fulfilled. We shall mention
only some of them: the betrayal of Himself by Judas;
His owti bitter passion and bloody death; His glori­
ous resurrection; His ascension; and the persecution
and perpetuity of His Church.

When St. Peter said: “Thou art Christ, the Son of
the living God, Jesus answering, said to him: “Blessed
art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath
not revealed it to thee, but My Father Who is in Heav­
en.” St. Matt. 16: 16,17. When the Jewish high priest
had said: “I adjure thee by the living God, that thou
tell us if thou be the Christ, the Son of God, Jesus saith
to him: Thou hast said it. Nevertheless I say to you,
hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the
right hand of the power of God, and coming in the clouds
of heaven.” St. Matt. 26: 63,64. “But hereafter the Son

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of man shall be sitting on the right hand of the power
of God. Then said they all: Art thou then the Son of
God? Who said: You say that I am.” St. Luke, 22:
69,70.
“For God so loved the world, as to give His only
begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him, may not
perish, but may have life everlasting.” St. John 3:16.

However the most convincing proof of His divinity,
to which He Himself so often referred, is His glorious
resurrection. Great is the skill and the power of man.
But no man has either skill or power over his own body
after the soul leaves it in death. From that moment on
the body remains helpless. There is only one exception
to this. Jesus had promised that He would rise from the
dead on the third day after His crucifixion. His heart
had been pierced and slashed with a lance and the last
drop of His Precious Blood oozed forth. Soldiers guard­
ed His grave. The third day began to dawn and Jesus
came forth alive from the grave and appeared to His
Apostles and disciples for forty days. They all saw
Him and they frequently spoke to Him and many of
them saw Him ascend into Heaven. In testimony of His
Godhead the Apostles and many others at their time and
since that time have performed astounding miracles in
the name of Jesus. Jesus is God. May He be loved and
faithfully adored by all of us until a happy death brings
us into His visible presence.

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Testimony of Evangelists and Apostles
“And when they were come up into the boat, the
wind ceased. And they that were in the boat came and
adored him, saying: “Indeed thou art the Son of God.”
St. Matt. 14: 32,33.

Testimony of St. Mark
“The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the
Son of God.” St. Mark, 1:1.

Testimony of St. John
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” St.
John 1: 14.
“Many other signs also did Jesus in the sight of his
disciples, which are not written in this book. But these
are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of God: and that believing, you may
have life in his name.” St. John 20: 30,31.

Testimony of St. Peter
“Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ,
the Son of the living God.” St. Matt. 16:16. “Then
Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away? And
Simon Peter answered Him: Lord, to whom shall we go?
Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we have be­
lieved and have known, that Thou art the Christ, the
Son of God.” St. John 6: 68-70.

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Testimony of St. Paul
“Who is the image of the invisible God, the first­
born of every creature:
For in him were all things created in heaven and
on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dom­
inations, or principalities, or powers: all things were
created by him and in him.

And he is before all, and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the church, who
is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all
things he may hold the primacy.” Col. 1: 15-18.
“For let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus:
Who being in the form of God, thought it not rob­
bery to be equal with God.” Phil. 2: 5,6.
“God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners,
spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last
of all,
In these days hath spoken to us by his Son, whom
he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he
made the world.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the figure
of his substance, and upholding all things by the word
of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the
right hand of the majesty on high. Heb. 1: 1-3.

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Testimony of the Centurion
“Now the centurion and they that were with him
watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake and the
things that were done, were sore afraid, saying: Indeed
this was the Son of God.” St. Matt. 27: 54.

Testimony of the Jewish Historian
Flavius Josephus, born 36, died 96 A.D.
In his 18th Book of the Antiquities of the Jews,
Chapter III, No. 3, he writes: “Now, there was about
this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call Him
a man, for He was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher
of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew
over to Him both many of the Jews and many of the
Gentiles. He was (the) Christ: and when Pilate, at the
suggestion of the principal men among us, had con­
demned Him to the cross, those that loved Him at the
first did not forsake Him, for He appeared to them alive
again th« third day, as the divine prophets had foretold
these and the thousand other wonderful things concern­
ing Him; and the tribe of Christians, so named for Him,
are not extinct at this day.”

N. B.—For further and more exhaustive proofs of the
Divinity of Jesus Christ, our Savior, read my book,

Prophetic Biography
of

Jesus Christ