is it the crux of the christian faith that Jesus is God?

Answer 1

Almost all Christians would say that the crux is the physical resurrection of Christ.

I disagree. But then again, I'm a Baha'i and not a Christian.

The crux of Christianity is that Jesus was sent by God to bring people back to God. Pure and simple. Whether there was a resurrection or not isn't the point, it's Christ's teachings that are the point.

Don't rely upon tricks and miracles to believe in God's Messenger. Believe God's Messenger because he IS God's Messenger, and do not require miracles for proof. Who are we to test God???

Answer 2

I think it's interesting that you used the word crux as your word in this question. Crux means main point, but it actually comes from the latin word that means cross. That right there is the crux of the Christian faith--it is hidden in the meaning of the word. Christ's mission on earth was to die upon a cross and to be the savior of the word. We too much die to self and pick our crosses and follow Christ. The crux, the cross, is the main point of Christianity.

Answer 3

No. The crux is the Resurrection of Jesus. Without that, there would be no Christianity. I believe Paul said something along the lines of "without the Resurrection of Jesus, Christians would be the most miserable of men." Read I Corinthians.

Answer 4

The heart [or crux] of the gospel [or christian faith] is the atonement and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything in the gospel derives from the fact that Jesus carried out the infinite Atonement.

If you want to learn more about the Atonement of Jesus Christ click on the link below.

Answer 5

I don't know what you mean by crux, but the divinity of Christ is the major point of conflict between Christianity and the rest of the worlds religions. Christians consider Christ God, the rest of the world consider him just a prophet or a man.

Answer 6

Nope.

The crux is that Jesus is the Son of God.

You can not claim to be apart of the Christian faith/religion if you don't believe that.

Answer 7

The New Testament recounts that Jesus died raised up on (Matthew 27:40-42; Mark 15:30-32), not just affixed to, what in Greek is called a σταυρός (stauros). The standard lexicographical work of the Greek language, gives "cross" as one meaning of this word, but indicates that the basic meaning is an "upright pale or stake" or a "pile" driven in to serve as a foundation. Certain scholars have therefore understood the New Testament accounts as referring to a single upright wooden stake without a crossbeam. Other scholars hold that the two-beamed cross may well have been used, as in traditional representations of the crucifixion of Jesus.

Acts 5:30 and Act 10:39 speak of Jesus as hanged upon a ξύλον (xylon). This word means wood or timber, whether cut (to form a spoon, a club, a table, a gibbet) or a live tree, and so says nothing of the form of the gibbet on which Jesus died.

Perhaps the best-known group subscribing to the upright pale thesis are Jehovah's Witnesses. This thesis enjoys limited support among Greek scholars and is not accepted by most Christians, who rely on certain literary evidence that crucifixion on a cross was in fact used in the first century, and on archaeological evidence, especially the skeletal remains, discovered in 1968, of a victim of crucifixion of about the time of the siege of Jerusalem (70). The earliest surviving Christian theological work that speaks of the shape of the σταυρός describes it as having "five extremities, two in length, two in breadth, and one in the middle, on which [last] the person rests who is fixed by the nails", a description incompatible with that of a stake.

Answer 8

It is that the Word of God became man (Jesus) and died to offer salvation for the sins of man to Father God so that man might inhabit the Kingdom Of God. Jesus rose to prove that He (Jesus) could do as He had promised and bring His followers into that kingdom where Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

Answer 9

No. Acutally the center of it is the notion that Jesus somehow came back from the dead...thus proving power over life and death and (presumably) at least a say in what happens after. The rest is just window dressing and dogmatic disagreements.

Answer 10

one of the many cruxes