Notes On The And The Death Of Jesus

No matter how one refers to Him, He is fully God and fully human. Because of humanity’s departure from wisdom, God decided to become man as a last ditch effort to save His people. This is best demonstrated in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”. Jesus lived among His followers teaching them about the good news of the Bible and when it was time, He willing sacrificed Himself in order to forgive the sins of those who believed and guaranteed his/her salvation. Once He ascended into heaven, the Holy Spirit remained, filling those who believed with the eternal love and guidance so that he/she may now spread the good news, just as His disciples did. Jesus’ identity and work is significant to the Christian worldview because they are the very core of this faith-based belief system. One learns from the Bible that one does not have to witness these works, just by merely believing will lead one to salvation. According to Merrick (2014), “Jesus Christ represents all humanity and offers to God a sacrifice that reconciles humanity and God” (final

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the

Jesus claimed to be God consistently. First, by forgiving sins. This was something that the Jews believed that only God could do. He also had the ability to cast out demons again something only God could do (Mark 1: 21-24). He also claimed to be God incarnate through his miracles. Jesus didn’t claim to be a submissive son of God. He claimed much more, to be God in human form. As a Christians you have to believe those claims to be true, not out of blind faith but simply because Jesus' thoughts, actions, and the effect that he has had on countless billions of people throughout history, all confirm these claims to be true.

Like children struggling to overcome the powerful tug of the ocean’s current, so humans were imprisoned by the unyielding tug of sin. The Son of Man’s cause was to save man from this paralyzing current. Jesus was even nailed to a rough tree and died on our behalf. The Bible states this, “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). He valued our freedom with Him so much He was willing to die to secure it.

Jesus—perhaps the most discoursed name in history. He has transformed and influenced many lives including mine. To some people, He was a prophet. To others He is a mere legend. To me, he is a father and a friend, but most of all, He is my Lord and Savior through justification, sanctification, and redemption.

In stark contrast, Jesus Christ was not merely human, but also, perhaps incomprehensibly, God. "Behold you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. [. . .] [T]hat Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God" (968). He lived a life such that one could "find no fault in this man" (997), and one in which He triumphed over evil whenever tempted. And even to His death, Jesus Christ's actions were a fulfillment of prophecy given centuries before His birth.

Jesus is not a mere man. He is so much more than a man; we can see

The doctrine of Christology has been an issue for the church since we have received the blessings of Christ and his atoning work of the cross. The issue of Jesus and his identity was one that Jesus dealt with in his own ministry. It must not be surprising to us that there are still questions in understanding the identity and reality of Jesus in his humanity and his simultaneous divinity. In the early church, the attempt to explain this dichotomy or duality was often diluted by human attempts to speak logically on the matter. Human logic will not be able to understand the mysteries of God (Isaiah 55:11). However, we are none the less left with the matter of identifying and defending who Jesus is before the world. Many false doctrines have been conceived which attempt to explain this truth but fall far short of revealing what

The fact Jesus is a man with the human parentage of Mary, grows and advances as a human child should (Lk. 2:49)…the latter body of evidence transcends the scope of a human prosopon and amounts to claims of pre-existence that human beings cannot rightly make (Jn. 8:58), claims for absolute status (Jn. 6:54), and signs of awesome power such as raising the dead (Mk. 5:35) and walking on the sea (Mk. 6:45). These are all things beyond the range of a human prosopon and they signal to the observer the existence of another kind of prosopon, one that manifests a divine physis behind

Thankfully for us Jesus is more than just human. From the beginning of his ministry Jesus made claims that he was the Messiah (John 4:25-26 ESV). He didn 't waver on these claims and ultimately it was these claims that led to the charge of blasphemy and eventually his crucifixion (Matthew 26: 64-68 ESV). But these were more than just claims, his birth, ministry, death and resurrection were all predicted by the prophets throughout the Old Testament books of Isaiah and the Psalms.

When discussing and proving the person of Christ, there are two basic laws that must be addressed and proven. First you must prove that Christ is one hundred percent human (humanity), then you must prove that at the same time Christ is one hundred percent God (deity).

Jesus (Yeshua) is the Son of God, the second person of the trinity. As such, He is equal to God, yet many do not believe that He is the Son of God. No one can explain how three persons can be one because God’s ways are not man’s ways. Isaiah says in his writings, “As the heavens are higher than earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (55:9 TLV). Though He was God, He took on human form and lowered Himself to become like a man.

With the knowledge that the human form was fit for Jesus, now the focus can shift to the evidence that he was human and his human form was humanizing. Jesus lived a life on earth and suffered like every other person does. As mentioned previously, Jesus experienced temptation by the Devil as seen in Matthew 4. He experienced hunger as seen in Mark 11:12. He experienced weariness as seen in John 4:6, “So Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well” (). He experienced sorrow many times as seen when Lazarus died in John 11 and several other places. He also experience pain and suffering on the cross and he died just as everyone on earth does as well. By every standard Jesus was a human being. He lived and died as everyone else on this planet does. His humanity was humanizing. He was a human being and demonstrated all the characteristics of being one. The only difference is that he was able to live a life without sin. So Jesus’ human nature was in no way dehumanizing; he exhibited every characteristic that humans face and conquered every struggle.

To some people, Jesus is recognized as a normal human being who felt all human qualities and had human limitations. This is true because he was evidently born of a woman at the time of Emperor Augustus. He grew up in a human family, worked as a carpenter in Nazareth for most of his life and died experiencing

Jesus is the Savior of the world, the Son of God who died for our sins. If we do not recognize our own failings and inadequacies, we cannot