A Consequence of Denying Jesus's Deity

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In John 8:24, the Lord Jesus Christ says "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins" (KJV). Additionally, John 8:58 says "Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am." When Jesus says "I am," He is harkening back to Exodus 3:14, which says "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you" (KJV). So, Christ is saying that He is God. And, since the Lord says that one will die in his sins unless he believes that "I am he," or "I am," He establishes belief in His deity as a belief one needs to have to be a Christian.

With Christ's deity now proven to be a fundamental and essential doctrine for Christianity, let's think about an error that is a logical consequence of denying Jesus's divine nature. The Bible is God's Word (John 10:35). So, to believe that the Bible is God's Word is to believe that the Bible is Jesus Christ's Word. Such a believer therefore accepts not only the words of Jesus in the Gospels as the words of Christ but all the words of the Bible as the words of Jesus. But, if someone denies Jesus's deity, he will accept only the words of Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as the teachings of Jesus (if he even accepts the Gospels as reliable testimonies of Jesus's earthly life). This is just one example of how a bad doctrine of God and a bad doctrine of Christ lead to a bad doctrine of the Bible.