Who are you? |
It's only fair to take seriously what Jesus said about himself. Once, Jesus was talking to a group of people who were descended from a man called Abraham who had lived 1800 years before. When they asked if he had seen Abraham, Jesus said: "Before Abraham was born, I AM!" (John 8v58)
I AM was God's name for himself, the name he had told people to call him by. Here, Jesus says it's his name. Jesus says he's older than Abraham. So in calling himself I AM Jesus claimed to be the eternal God. |
What he can't have been |
And that means he can't just have been a great teacher.
Imagine you are back at school, and your favourite maths teacher says "2+2=6". Now he can't be just a good teacher. He's either in charge of the whole of maths, so he can write the rules; or he's making this up to fool you; or he's making a terrible mistake. Whichever it is, he can't be just a great teacher! |
The Proof |
While he was living on Earth, Jesus deliberately gave some pretty good proofs that his claims about himself were true. He didn't only say he was God the Son, living on earth: he showed it. He healed people with a touch, he controlled the weather with a word; he even stopped a funeral and commanded a corpse: "young man, I say to you, get up!" The dead man sat up and began to talk. (Luke 7v14-15)
What Jesus did backed up what Jesus said. And if he is God, we can't just ignore him when we disagree with him. It he's God, we need to find out what he's like, and what he thinks of us, and what he wants to say to us. |
"Does it really matter who I think Jesus was? Surely as long as I'm good, I'll go to heaven anyway?"
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"So Christians believe that Jesus is God. What did he have to say about what the point of life is?"
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