Question About Jesus?

Question

I am looking for the Christian view point on this. Also, i am not interested in anything other than this.

Jesus is supposed to be God in human form, right but then again he is also called the son of God. Does that mean that Jesus was literally just God, with all of God's knowledge and abilities and so forth. Or was Jesus a separate being from God, who was created with divine abilities?

Basically, was Jesus supposed to be just God dressed up as a human or was he supposed to be like another deity entirely, related but seperate from God?

Answer 1

I believe that Jesus was God manifested in flesh

Answer 2

Catholics believe that Jesus was a "both/and" - he was 100% pure God/divine while at the same time 100% human just like us. You will hear people say that Jesus is God's self spoken into the world.

I don't know if this will help or just muddy things up, but try this on for size. God is transcendant. God cannot be contained by space and time. Yet God choose to join us with the boundaries of space and time. To do so, God took flesh and became a human man, Jesus. God is still God, but God now has a face and body and all that.

Answer 3

Jesus was 100% God and 100% man. Jesus did what Adam could not, resist temptation.

Jesus is also the second part of the Trinity (yes, I know the word doesn't show up in the text of the Holy Bible...however, Jesus talks about it in Matt. 28.

God the Father, Jesus the Son (and also God) and the Holy Spirit (God/Jesus Spirit).

There is only one God. We are like Him; body, soul and spirit. Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

John 10:30
30 The Father and I are one
NCV

John 1:1-3
1:1 John Tells About Jesus, the Son of God

Christ Comes to the World


In the beginning there was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 All things were made by him, and nothing was made without him. NCV

John 1:14

14 The Word became a human and lived among us. We saw his glory — the glory that belongs to the only Son of the Father — and he was full of grace and truth. NCV

John was in the inner circle of Jesus' friends. John walked, talked, prayed, ate...and watched many, many miracles, signs and wonders performed by Jesus including giving sight to the blind, healing the cripple and raising the dead.

I hope that helps.

Answer 4

If you are looking for the historic Christian answer, you need to learn about the Council of Chalcedon and the creed it produced. This creed is the basis of Christian orthodoxy, and affirms that Jesus is fully God and fully human.

The problem comes if one tries to harmonize this with the depiction of Jesus in the earliest Gospels. Without the Gospel of John, no one would ever have presented Jesus in these terms. One approach, known as kenotic Christology, suggests that the pre-existent Word took upon himself self-limitations at the incarnation. But such ideas were anathema to most Christians down the ages, since they were certain that God cannot change in this way.

If you were to read only the Gospel of Luke, you would have a portrait of Jesus as a human being inspired by God's Spirit. So it all depends on whether you are trying to find a historical answer, one that does as much justice to as many relevant Biblical texts as possible, or the historic standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Each of these will be different to some extent.

Answer 5

Many people believe that Jesus was God in the flesh. Others believe he was human and God simultaneously.

The scriptural viewpoint is that Jesus was a human - a perfect man - no more and no less. He existed in the heavens before he was born as a perfect human. Upon his resurrection, he returned to the heavens. He was and is divine in the sense that he is a divine being - indeed, he is a god. But while on earth he was a human being - not half God and half man - a whole human being. The scriptures teach that he is a god. But they do not teach that he is God Almighty. If he were, it would violently contradict several scriptural teachings.

So even though many professed Christians have the viewpoint that Jesus was/is God Almighty, the scriptural viewpoint is altogether different. When on earth he was a perfect human being the son of God. It is even as Peter said at Matthew 16:16: "You are the Christ, the son of the living God." And it is even as Jesus himself said in prayer to his heavenly father at John 17:3 "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth - Jesus Christ." Surely Jesus knew who he was. Christians accept the teachings of Jesus - for that is what it means to be Christian - to be a disciple, a follower of Jesus Christ.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 6

Colossians 2:9
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Colossians 2:9

This verse goes hand in hand with the statements, “I and the Father are one” and “he is in me and I in Him.” And “If you have seen me you have seen the Father.” This states plainly that God dwelt within the body of Jesus. And it clearly states that it was the fullness of the Godhead. But what exactly is “the Godhead?” In the Greek it is the word “theotes.” It was a form of the word “theios,” a word that was used for identifying multiple deities. The word “theios” is used directly of God in Romans 1:20.

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:19-20

Both “theotes” and “theios” are plural words. Why use words that mean more than one, to identify God in a singular fashion? Again we have a word, like “elohim” of the Old Testament, a plural word being used as the identification of the one God.

The verse in Colossians does not mean that Jesus had in him the fullness of the gods, but all the fullness of the one God, a God that had three persons. How can you have all the fullness of God in you and not be God? Again more evidence that Jesus is God.

UPDATE: To Hannah J. Paul...I don't see how you can justify your opinion against the verse from Collosians quoted above.
E-mail me if you want to discuss further.

Sincerely, Greg Mason

Answer 7

The term God in English comes from multiple terms (ballpark 10) in Hebrew; some singular,some plural. Jesus was the Son of God, (God himself), but not God the Father.

Answer 8

The bible says Jesus came as the son of God. He was 100 percent God & 100 percent man, but in order to save us He laid down His godly powers & lived as a man in order to be tempted,to prove that He lived a sinless life. He proved this even unto death, death on the cross where He defeated satan & after 3 days He rose again for our justification. He said I and the Father are one. He said I belive it & that settles it. Amen!

Answer 9

He was an incarnation of Krishna
Jesus Christ, was a Vedic Spiritual Master. His mother was of the Essene race, who were Vedic. Even the name, Jesus Christ, is Vedic. The pronunciation in latin is Hey-soo Kristo. In sanskrit, the language of the Vedas, it is pronounced Ha-ray Krishna. In fact, Krishna is pronounced Kristo in some parts of India even today.
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Bhagavad Gita As It Is --
Chapter 4. Transcendental Knowledge
Chapter 4, Verse 5.
The Blessed Lord said: Many, many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the enemy!
Chapter 4, Verse 6.
Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form.
Chapter 4, Verse 7.
Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion--at that time I descend Myself.
Chapter 4, Verse 8.
In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.

Answer 10

jesus is the word,as you would find reading through the bible...
"in the beginning[of creation] was the word,[jesus],and the word was with god,and the word was god.he was in the beginning with god."..john1:1-2
they are one in the same along with the holy spirit.
god bless you always!!