In other religions, God is simply this “transcendent holy one” you can never touch. When Jesus Christ came back to earth following His death on the Cross, He said to a doubting Thomas, “Just come over here and feel me so you’ll know I’m real.”

The reason Christ is called the Word is because He’s the manifest person of the godhead.

“He's the one who brings God out of the theory—the ether and the unknown—and down into the place where He could actually enter into your experience,” explains my pastor, Richard Jordan. “He steps out of eternity where He is and steps into His creation and literally takes it upon Himself. And that’s something my mind doesn't grasp! He literally joins Himself in creation to Him, and in that unique person of all of the universe—the celebrity of all time—He becomes the man Christ Jesus.

“When you look at that, you say, ‘Wow, I understand what Jeremiah's saying back there when he says, 'Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee Lord.’ Man, there's nobody like him! Nobody. You say, ‘Wow, God, thou art great—who wouldn't fear you?! Who wouldn't bow before you and say, 'You're the man!'?"

After Thomas did as Christ instructed, he cried, "My Lord and my God," to which Christ responded, “Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”

Jordan explains, “What Thomas was saying was, ‘You're Jehovah God.’ Now in Exodus 34, it says nobody can have that position except Jehovah and that He’s a Jealous God. You say, ‘But I thought jealousy wasn't a good idea?‘ Well, jealousy that isn't true isn't so good, but if you can back it up.... Isaiah 42:8 is what that's talking about. God says, ‘I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.’

“Jehovah says, ‘I'm God; I'm the Almighty, and I'm not going to give that position to anybody. There's none like me. I've got a right to it and I'm jealous over it. I won't give my glory to anybody else and don’t anyone come along and try to take my glory.’ ”

Look at this fantastic passage in Jeremiah 10 that completely blows Catholicism and all other pagan systems out of the water:

“But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
[11] Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
[12] He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
[13] When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
[14] Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
[15] They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.”

Jordan explains, “He's going to take his wrath and ignite it on them and destroy them. Who's He going to destroy? The gods. Those who say they're gods who didn't make heaven and earth. When He says, ‘I'm the Lord, there's none like me,’ He's saying, ‘There isn't any room in my heaven and earth for anybody who says he's me. No room out there. I've been all over creation; I've looked, I've seen; there isn't anybody like me out there.’

“The fascinating thing about John 20 (in the conversation between Christ and Thomas) is He says, ‘Just come and put your hand on me.’ You see God has designed it so in the person of Jesus Christ you and I come and touch with Him. He can become real and tangible in your life and mine. He's not just the ‘transcendent other’ of theology and of religion. He's the one who comes to enter into the event of our lives and to be one with us.”

From Acts 20:28 reference to “the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood,” we know it was God on the Cross with His Son.

This is why all the negative speculation about Jesus Christ’s words on the Cross, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me,” doesn’t jive. II Cor. 5:18 even says “God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ.”

Jordan confirms, “God was personally present in the person of Jesus Christ at Calvary. How's that possible? Only one way: He's God. He’s saying, ‘God, the Father, and God the Spirit, why have you forsaken me?’ Who was being forsaken? God the Son. God was in Christ. He is God even on Calvary's Cross.

In Old Testament prophecy, the Lord even says “they shall look upon me whom they have pierced.”

Isaiah 53:10 says, "Yet it pleased the Lord (Jehovah) to bruise him (Jesus Christ); he (Jehovah, God the Father) hath put Him (Jehovah, God the Son) to grief.”

Jordan says, “Do you see two Jehovahs in that verse? Here's Jehovah being pierced at the Cross and yet the verse says Jehovah bruised him. Now that gets you into the doctrine of the Trinity. People tell you, ‘Well the Trinity is not in the Old Testament,’ but there it is plain as day. Both of them bear the name Jehovah. There are two Jehovahs at Calvary. Just like there are two Jehovahs back in Genesis 19: One's up in heaven, pouring out the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gommorha, and one's with Abraham watching it happen.”

God says in Isaiah 48:16, “I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God (meaning the Father) and his Spirit (meaning God the Spirit) hath sent me.” The ‘me’ is the Redeemer, Jesus Christ. There's all three of them in two verses— in fact, they’re all in one verse. The speaker in the verse is Christ, God the Son.

(Editor’s Note: In the Old Testament, whenever you see the expression Lord GOD, God is in uppercase letters to signify it's Jehovah. Adoniah Jehovah is always God the Father, and when you see LORD in all caps, that's always God the Son.)