“Is the Jesus the God?” is the central, and yet the most contested question in Christianity.

Is the Jesus the God? is a pew-sitting layman’s search in the Bible for a self-consistent answer to it. He has no formal religious background, no position to keep, and no influence from culture, doctrine, authorities, family, friends, fads, or personal desires. His aim is not to defend or to prove. Douglas S. Rustad sought only an answer that was consistent within the 1,980 biblical verses that directly or indirectly relate to the relationship between Jesus and God. What he found was much more self-consistent, enlightening, holistic, far-reaching, and beyond Christianity than what is given in usual Bible study classes.

For example, the authors of the New Testament consistently used definite articles in the Greek version to convey important information. These definite articles are not rendered in English translations, resulting in the loss of a substantial amount of intended biblical information. If we consider the use and non-use of definite articles, the English-rendered “Is Jesus God?” is really four different questions in the Greek version, with four different meanings and answers, each having different historical consequences. Who are the real Antichrists? In this detailed study of the biblical text, Rustad finds what he believes is an answer, true to the text itself, to this and the central question: Is the Jesus the God?