2007-09-23 10:12:25 · 25 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
About 350-400 AD, the Catholic Church declared Jesus a God, (son of God). No matter who says what, that is how it happened.
2007-09-23 10:20:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
While other people have correctly mentioned that the First Council of Nicea is where the church officially defines the nature of Christ, there are Scriptural references to Jesus being divine. For instance, there is a lengthy section (chapter 2) in Paul's Letter to the Philippians in which the divinity of Christ is mentioned. Most scholars believe this letter was written around 59-61 A.D. And while Paul mentioning that Jesus was Lord may not be proof in people's mind that Jesus was Lord, it is proof that there were those in the church less than 30 years after Jesus dies that believed him to be divine. However, exactly how Jesus was divine was an issue that prompted Councils, like Nicea, in order to better understand what that meant.
2007-09-23 17:37:59 · answer #2 · answered by Blake the Baptist 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christ , while truly a dual-origin being, was not a double personality. He was not God in association with man but, rather, God incarnate in man. And he was always just that combined being. The only progressive factor in such a nonunderstandable relationship was the progressive self-conscious realization and recognition (by the human mind) of this fact of being God and man.
Christ did not progressively become God. God did not, at some vital moment in the earth life of Jesus, become man. Jesus was God and man--always and even forevermore. And this God and this man were, and now are, one, even as the Paradise Trinity of three beings is in reality one Deity.
Rev. TomCat
2007-09-23 17:28:02 · answer #3 · answered by Rev. TomCat 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Somewhere around 320 A.D. or whatever it was, when Constantine and the Nicene Council decided by vote, that Jesus was a deity.
Such a thing never has existed in Judaism, that the Messiah is a deity. The Messiah is a man, born in the usual way between a married Jewish man and wife, and as a human being he is not to be worshipped, only God is to be worshipped.
Anyway, they've got the wrong guy. Jesus didn't fulfill the prophecies so he wasn't the Messiah. And there is no such thing as a second coming concept in Judaism.
2007-09-23 17:19:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
IM KINDA INTERESTED WITH arikinder WORD ABOVE ME,
THAT SAID:
arikinder:
"Jesus was always God the Son, second person of the trinity."
HMM,..LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, SO WHICH ONE do YOU PREFER TO USE FOR JESUS,
1) always GOD THE SON..
OR
2) second PERSON in the trinity??
???
this is SO confusing...just say He as a prophet ok,.why u guys so eager to make him God?
can't he be like other prophet of his own people?
why r u SO worried about the sins made by someone(meaning adam) that have been forgiven by god for a looooonng time ago??
why should God let someone who make sins to him have child and descendants million years after that UNLESS he has been fogiven by GOD? will u not ever thinking about it??
2007-09-23 17:39:49 · answer #5 · answered by singularity 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is your question. The Christian belief is that he is God. Three in one. Some say he was God and came to the earth as Jesus the human. When he comes again he will come as Jesus as it is written.
2007-09-23 17:19:23 · answer #6 · answered by plyjanney 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In 325 AD, at the first council of nicea, it was determined that Jesus was not of similar substance as god, but of the same substance as god. This is the first time Jesus attained godhood.
This council was presided over by Emperor Constantine I.
2007-09-23 17:19:04 · answer #7 · answered by CC 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you mean Almighty God, Jehovah, his Father. Never.
He never claimed to be God or said he was God. In fact, he said God was greater than him. Jesus was God's son. He left us the model prayer that teaches us to pray to God, not Jesus. (John 14:28; 10:36; Matthew 6:9)
At Isaiah 9:6 Jesus is mentioned by many titles, including "mighty god", but no where in the Bible is he referred to as Almighty God, or by God's name, Jehovah. (Psalms 83:18; Isaiah 42:8)
2007-09-23 17:43:47 · answer #8 · answered by catgrl 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus was always God the Son, second person of the trinity.
2007-09-23 17:19:18 · answer #9 · answered by arikinder 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God, jesus, and the holy spirit are all one. From god came jesus, and from jesus came the holy ghost. They are individuals yet they are incarnates or GOD. All three or them are the same guy, just different forms. God, jesus, and the holy ghost is the LORD.
2007-09-23 17:23:38 · answer #10 · answered by Chris 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋