there was never a debate in the church about the deity of jesus except by a handful of misguided cultists the first verse in john's gospel answers any question of the so called debate in the beginning was the word and the word was god even a rock can understand that john is saying the logos the word was god who is the logos jesus the logos become flesh if that isn't enough then just look at hebrews but about the son he god says your throne o god in other words god himself calls the son jesus god case closed end of debate now for the gospels there were always and only gospels matthew lion mark lamb luke man john eagle based on the four faces of the cherubim before god ezek so simple yet so hard when some chose to read dan brown history chanel fiction as if it were fact