The deity of Christ in the synoptic Gospels

“So far we have occupied ourselves with the Christ that Matthew, Mark and Luke give us. We find in him a Judge of both worlds of om- nipotent power, and a teacher come from God. He offers peace and comfort to the human soul and presents himself as our burden-bearer. His mystery of Sonship is as great as that of his Father. He is the mediator between God and man and all nations must be taught of him and baptized in his name. Could the Synoptics have presented a more divine Christ? Could they have invented such complex claims?”

From “Is Jesus God?” , a compilation by graduates of Princeton seminary in 1912. (before it went theologically liberal much later)

The Deity of Christ wasn’t an Idea Made up Later by Gentile Christians

“Many Israelites at the time of Jesus were expecting a Messiah who would be divine and come to earth in the form of a human.”

“I suggest that Jesus and Christ were one from the very beginning of the Jesus movement. It won’t be possible any longer to think of some ethical religious teacher who was later promoted to divinity under the influence of alien Greek notions, with his so-called original message being distorted and lost; the idea of Jesus as divine-human Messiah goes back to the very beginning of the Christian movement, to Jesus himself, and even before that.”

“The Jewish Gospels” by Daniel Boyarin