We don’t need to go up to Heaven to find truth and salvation. Christ came down from Heaven to us, to seek and save us by His death-payment for us. The incarnation and the death of Messiah were for the purpose of resurrection, confirming His power and grace to utterly save lost mankind.
Jesus Christ is Lord (Jehovah-God) whether or not we believe. Poison kills, whether we believe it or not. Fire burns, whether we believe it or not. Certain things do not require our personal belief to be so – they simple are so.
We believers have been blessed by faith, hearing the Gospel of good news by the Word of God.
Jesus subjected Himself to the curse of the death-by-cross death (Galatians 3:13) so that we might be released from the curse of spiritual death, with the result that faith in Christ Jesus gives us eternal life – no longer spiritually dead.
The following is copied from “Basic Theology” by Charles C. Ryrie – Moody Press – Chicago © 1986, 1999
“Doubting Thomas” ascribed full deity to Christ when he declared, “My Lord and my God” in John 20:28.
Christ’s resurrection and exaltation placed Him as Lord of the universe (Reference Acts 2:36; Philippians 2:11).
Jesus of Nazareth is Lord, thus the essence of the Christian faith in the first century was to acknowledge Jesus the Messiah (Yahweh) of the Old Testament.
“Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth” (Psalm 8:1,9).