The Revelation Of The Lord Jesus Christ

John uses the word “logos” at the beginning of his gospel, which roughly translates in English to “the Word.” Our book takes this idea one step further by explaining that “Logos can mean anything from a divine utterance to the principle of cosmic reason that orders and governs the universe” (Harris, 2012: 231). This is to say that John connected Jesus to the Greek idea that He was there at the beginning of when the earth was created and given its form and order. This, therefore, also connects this entity of Jesus to that which was sitting on the right hand of God at the creation of the universe, as told to us in the first chapter of Genesis.

John also reveals Christ’s identity, “In the beginning the Word (logos) already existed. He was with God, and he was God…He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn’t make. Life itself was in him and this life gives light to everyone.” (John 1:1, 3-4)

According to the Gospels in the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), the purposes of Jesus’ life was like no other. Jesus was a perfect, innocent man (HCSB, 1 Peter. 2.22). He was sent by God to fulfill the bountiful number of prophesies in the Old Testament. These prophecies predicted a perfect man being sent by God to be the Messiah for Israel. Jesus was not like the rest of the world. The perfection of Jesus was unique in the world because, as the Apostle Paul states, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (HCSB, Romans. 3.23). Jesus’ perfection proved he had been sent by God and would fulfill a duty that no others

With the proclamation of the Kingdom of God, Jesus seeks to bring about God’s plan for humanity through physical, spiritual, and social healing. His purpose and mission is to prepare the hearts and minds of the people so they can build new lives in God’s kingdom. Jesus often uses stories to illustrate his message

John’s emphasis on Jesus as the Word of God incarnated is indebted both to Hellenistic philosophy and to his Jewish heritage. The Greeks developed the concept of a divine force governing the balance between binary opposites in the universe. They called this concept, logos, interpreted as “Word.” It is logos that controls the balance between light and darkness, flesh and spirit. From all of the evil and darkness, light came though and overpowered it. The darkness and light translates to the relationship between of the Word with creation and with man. A world without logos, the Greeks believed, would be chaos. Jesus is the Word, the logos, who is the instrument of total victory of light over darkness. John’s reference to Hellenistic philosophy

Jesus talked about himself and the father. There was witnesses that spoke of him before he came to this earth.

The Gospel of John is a persuasive argument for the deity of Jesus. It concentrates on presenting Jesus as the Word (Logos), that is, God (1:1) who became a man (1:14). Thus John meticulously records the statements and describes the miracles of Jesus that can only be attributed to God Himself. Jesus called Himself the bread of life (6:35, 41, 48, 51), the light of the world (8:12; 9:5), the door for the sheep (10:7, 9), the good shepherd (10:11, 14), the resurrection and the life (11:25), the way, the truth, the life (14:6), and the true vine (15:1, 5). Each of these statements begins with the words, “I am,” recalling God’s revelation of His name, “I

Jesus constantly point people back to his father in Heaven. The purpose of the life of Jesus in the Bible was to make disciples of all nations,

In the gospel of Mark, Jesus is described as Jesus Christ the only Son of God. By analyzing the response Jesus gives towards his followers, the direct knowledge of the commandments and the divine power he uses to proclaim his status are all notations that demonstrate and validate his position of Son of God.

Prehuman Existence. The person who became known as Jesus Christ did not begin life here on earth. He himself spoke of his prehuman heavenly life. (Joh 3:13; 6:38, 62; 8:23, 42, 58) John 1:1, 2 gives the heavenly name of the one who became Jesus, saying: “In the beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. This one was in the beginning with God.” Since Jehovah is eternal and had no beginning, the Word’s being with God from “the beginning” must here refer to the beginning of Jehovah’s creative works. This is confirmed by other texts identifying Jesus as “the firstborn of all creation,” “the beginning of the creation by God.” Thus the Scriptures identify the Word (Jesus in his prehuman existence) as God’s first creation,

Jesus was exist before His incarnation (coming to the earth becoming man). Old Testament many times shows the existence of Jesus implicitly. In the book of Genesis, in the eternity, Jesus was also created the earth and heaven with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. We can also find The pre-existence of Christ in the New Testament when we read John 1:1-2. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God”. The term “the Word” is reffering to the second person of the trinity, which is pointing to the person of Jesus Christ. It stated explicitly that Jesus was (and is) God, existed in the eternity, from the beginning.

Christ is part of the Trinity and is recognized as God in creation-John 1:3, judge of all things in the future-john 5:27, and he has omniscience-Matthew 9:4. Charles Ryre proves Christ's deity and involvement in the Trinity in Basic Theology, as he writes,

In addition to Jesus’ specific claims about Himself, His disciples also acknowledged the deity of Christ. They claimed that Jesus had the right to forgive sins—something only God can do—as it is God who is offended by sin (Acts 5:31; Colossians 3:13; Psalm 130:4; Jeremiah 31:34). In close connection with this last claim, Jesus is also said to be the one who will “judge the living and the dead” (2 Timothy 4:1). Thomas cried out to Jesus, “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28). Paul calls Jesus “great God and Savior” (Titus 2:13) and points out that prior to His incarnation Jesus existed in the “form of God” (Philippians 2:5-8). God the Father says regarding Jesus: “Your throne, O God, will last forever and ever” (Hebrews 1:8). John states that

that he was, he is and will forever be the true Son of God that came to the world via mysterious, powerful connections of the father .

Divine revelation of God refers to the ways in which God communicates with humanity to confirm his existence. This is not an oral communication; it is a language built up through deeds from God that result in confirmation of his existence (Dei Verbum, 2). The Catholic Church teaches the most definite form of communication between God and man is the created world and that consideration of created things leads to certainty of God’s existence (Tanner, 1990, P.806). However, there are various other forms of divine revelation that are equally capable of revealing the existence of God. Consequently, this essay will discuss four forms of divine revelation: creation, Jesus, the Bible and Tradition to confirm belief in God. Firstly, creation will be analysed to understand how God reveals through creation and without the first revelation of God no other forms of communication could exist. Following on from this, Jesus’ role in divine revelation will be analysed through the immaculate conception and the Chalcedonian Definition of Jesus’s nature. The information discussed in the previous points will be taken from the Bible, the Old and New Testament, which is vital to revealing God because it is a record of His history with humanity. Additionally, Catholic Tradition will be analysed through the Holy Spirit to demonstrate how each hypostasis of God is essential to divine revelation. To conclude, revelation from an atheist perspective