The deity of Jesus has been challenged since the beginning of Christianity.  In our day, many are trying to present a different Jesus than the one found in the Bible.  Islam says that Jesus was a great prophet, but not God.  Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Jesus is a god, but not THE God.  The Da Vinci Code, a novel by Dan Brown, presents the idea that Jesus was viewed as a mortal prophet before the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325, where his divinity was supposedly established through a vote.  Who is right?  What did Jesus say?  Did Jesus actually claim to be the Son of God?  We must get this right because our very eternity hangs in the balance. We'll examine John 5:17-29 to help answer the question.  It is one of the clearest statements from Jesus on this crucial issue.