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Many believe that Jesus is the living God! Do you? Let us see if such belief has an scriptural bases by examining the account of Matt. 16:13-16
 When he had come into the region of Caes·a·reʹa Phi·lipʹpi, Jesus asked his disciples: “Who are men saying the Son of man is?” 14 They said: “Some say John the Baptist, others E·liʹjah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them: “You, though, who do you say I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Did Jesus disagreed, and corrected his apostle that he will soon be a living God? Let us read Jesus response in verse 17
17 In response Jesus said to him: “Happy you are, Simon son of Joʹnah, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but my Father in the heavens did.
During Jesus time the Jewish nation or the Israelite believe in one God, and they were awaiting the appearance of the long-promise Messiah or Christ in the Hebrew Scripture. Having a genuine faith, Peter had been enabled to discern the identitty of Christ because as Jesus said it had been made plain to him not by man but by the one living God - Jehovah.