Against that background, the New Testament witnesses see Jesus as the one who lives as a true son to the God of Israel. He lives in an unbroken covenantal relationship with the Father. His is a human ...

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Still, while claiming that Jesus was a particular human appearance of God, the early church did not look for descriptions or portraits of Jesus “from life.” In the earliest Christian images, Christ ...

Many attributes that are said to belong only to “God” are applied to Jesus in Scripture. God the Father said, “besides me there is no savior” (Isaiah 43:11; cf. 1 Timothy 4:10).

But Jesus is God-man, not God-Superman. He became one of us not to shame us for our doubts but to teach us how to doubt well, to doubt faithfully. And so we are somehow saved too by his doubts.

(Matthew 28:1-15; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-49; John 20:1-12) Jesus’ Resurrection is our salvation. St. Paul is blunt about this fact: Unless Jesus is risen from the dead, “your faith is in vain ...

And kings were worshiped—even in the Bible (Matt. 18:26)—by veneration and obeisance, just as God was. Here, Jesus may be accepting the worship due to him as the future king.

This does not mean that Jesus is 50% God and 50% man, but rather that Jesus is both fully God and fully man, he said. The Transfiguration was also a display of all three persons in the Trinity, ...

Jesus, as the human face of God, is how God the father presented himself "in a manner we can fall in love with," said Fr. Paternostro of Missouri.

Scientists are going gaga over the earliest inscription declaring “Jesus is God,” claiming that this 1,800-year-old engraving could change our understanding of Christianity.