What is the Trinity? Jesus is one Person of the divine Trinity. God the Father is also part of the Trinity. Thus, Jesus is the Son of the Father, but at the same time is fully God.
Is Jesus the Father? No — they are two different Persons of the Trinity. God is infinite and cannot die. And yet, Jesus did die. Jesus was in the hypostatic union — meaning He was completely God, but also completely human.
Jesus had two natures existing in one Person. Why did God become man? God became man to die for the ungodly. God demonstrated His love for us through the death of Jesus. We are reconciled to God through His death Romans 5. His resurrection was the first fruits — in Adam all die, in Christ all shall be made alive. Jesus became man to be our High Priest in heaven who can sympathize with our weaknesses, as He was tempted in all the things we are, yet without sin. Hebrews Jesus died so that all who believe in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. John Jesus took our sins upon His body and died in our place, as our substitute, so we could have eternal life.
Why should I believe in Jesus? You should believe in Jesus because, like everyone, you need a Savior. You cannot atone for your own sins, no matter what you do. Only Jesus, who gave His life for you, can save you from sin and from death and from hell. Your understanding of Jesus is your key to eternal life, but it is also the key to a rich and abundant life now, walking in step with Him. I encourage you to read and meditate on the scriptures in this article and get to know deeply the Person of Jesus Christ.
Is Smoking Marijuana Sinful? Next: Appearance Of Evil. Jesus is thought to have been sent by God the Father to save mankind, and is the physical manifestation of God. He taught the word of God, performed miracles, forgave sinners and built the foundation of the Church. Throughout his travels, he named twelve disciples or apostles to whom he entrusted the task of spreading his teachings once he was gone.
But on the third day, the prophecy of him as a messiah was fulfilled after he rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven to be with God the Father. Because Jesus became human for mankind, people have given him physical attributes unlike God the Father.
He is often shown to have brown hair, a long beard and kind eyes. In order to completely understand the difference between the two, we should go back to what the Christian doctrine says about the Holy Trinity. God is the Supreme Being, but is also divided into three separate personas. Because not only the Father is revealed with divine authority and rights, but also the Son and the Holy Spirit. For example, the early Christians worshipped the risen Jesus and obeyed the divine authority of the Holy Spirit.
John's Gospel is especially helpful to see this if you make a note of each reference to Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is, of course, a mystery.
Some people will sneer at that as 'the usual excuse' of Christians to believe something irrational. We can only answer that it is not a failure of thought or intelligence but a serious grappling with what the Bible teaches: there is only One God, and that God has revealed Himself to us as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Some people a long time before even Athanasius suggested that these were not three persons but only three phases in God's relationship with the world He made - first He was the Father, then He became the God-Man Jesus, and then He became the Holy Spirit after Jesus died and rose.
The problem with that is that all three persons appear alongside each other sometimes. Take Jesus' baptism for example:. And if there are three divine persons in the one God, that means they are each real 'individuals' and have been throughout eternity.
The second challenge has to do with Jesus being both God and human. But remember that the human being Jesus was conceived; He began. It was the divine Son who came from heaven, not the human being who was named by his parents as a baby. So what happened? Yet this one being had, and still has, a human and a divine nature. Again, we face the mystery of the divine being existing entirely in a different order from ourselves.
We cannot have two natures, but He can. Let's look briefly at these three phases - the Son before Bethlehem, the Son on earth, and the Son returned to glory. In time he took one upon himself, and lived a fully human life without an 'escape clause' because of his divinity.
Jesus slept because he could be tired.
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