<h2>The Ongoing Identity Theft of Jesus</h2>
The divinity of Jesus has been questioned for thousands of years.

It's not surprising that one of the first recorded instances of this divine doubt occurred before Jesus officially started his ministry and was fasting for 40 days. According to the gospel of Matthew, it was during that stretch, the devil approached Jesus in the desert and questioning the Lord's deistic attributes.

Appealing to Appetite

We read in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+4%3A3-4&amp;version=NKJV">Matthew 4:3-4</a> that the tempter questioned that if Jesus was indeed the Son of God, then Jesus would be able to turn nearby rock piles warmed by the sun into piles of warm bread. Jesus parried with the classic, "...man shall not live by bread alone..." block despite the gnawing hunger in his human belly. This exchange clearly shows that both individuals knew that Jesus was both God and man.

Appealing to Prophecy

Throughout this passage in Matthew, the devil quotes scripture to Jesus as