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Feb 26, 2019 · A 2015 survey conducted by the Church of England, for instance, found that 22 percent of adults in England did not believe Jesus was a real person. Among scholars of the New Testament of the ...
Jul 26, 2024 · The most important reason that Jesus must be God is that, if He is not God, His death would not have been sufficient to pay the penalty for the sins of the world (1 John 2:2). A created being, which Jesus would be if He were not God, could not pay the infinite penalty required for sin against an infinite God. Only God could pay such an infinite ...
Jan 4, 2022 · Jesus had to be both God and man. As God, Jesus could satisfy God’s wrath. As a man, Jesus had the capability of dying. As the God-man, Jesus is the perfect Mediator between heaven and earth (1 Timothy 2:5). Salvation is available only through faith in Jesus Christ. As He proclaimed, “I am the way and the truth and the life.
Theologians call this the hypostatic union: Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, two natures in one person, forever. The Bible tells us of his humanity. He was born of a woman, grew physically, hungered, thirsted, slept, bled, and died. He experienced joy, grief, anger, compassion, and sorrow.
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A: From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham. Jesus lived a perfect life. Those who schemed to bring him to trial had to obtain false witnesses to bring charges, because he was blameless. “In Him there is no sin” (1 John 3:5). There was also evidence of His power—power that only comes from God. He had power over sickness and disease.
The question of Jesus’s divinity has been at the epicenter of theological discussion since the early church. At the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325, the church fathers affirmed that Jesus is “true God from true God.”. Today, beliefs such as this one are confessed through creeds in churches around the world, and yet there remains ...
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3 days ago · Is Jesus Christ God? Discover how Jesus is the perfect image of God the Father. 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
