Who Did Jesus Think He Was?

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Ever since the Christian movement began, followers of Jesus Christ have said he was God ... in human form.

But what about Jesus himself? Who did he think he was?

With the rise of textual criticism and the modern study of history, historians have developed tools to unlock this question. Today Jesus of Nazareth is no longer just a figure in a stained glass window, but a real person of history, whose life can be investigated historically.

So let’s examine the New Testament, not as inspired Scripture, but as an ordinary collection of ancient documents. Let’s apply to them the standard tests we would use with regard to any other ancient sources.

When historians investigate the Jesus of history, what do they find?

[Allyourbase]

Jesus was either the biggest, best conman in human history, or he is exactly who he claimed to be . I believe the latter

[carolusludovicus]

Thanks for this Information. It can help many Christians against Muslims and Jews objection against Christ's divinity.

[agebeabelaluma]

The presentation and graphics is top notch...the content is simply true.
"...they that are of the truth hear me"

[collegepennsylvania]

“He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream. But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people. He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave. But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands. When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins. I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭53:3-12‬ ‭NLT‬‬
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
God loves you so much and showed that by sending His Son to die for us so that we may inherit eternal life. We deserve hell but He gave us heaven through faith in Jesus. He took the punishment we deserved and by putting our faith in Him we can be saved. The Key To Eternal Life:
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because if Jesus really rose from the dead it is the most important fact ever!
God bless y’all!

[TMH-zo]

He walks among us. Fear not, he will take all your pain. I know him and he is now here. Soon you will see him. Blessed are ALL who are his children.

[ElkoJohn]

The Son of Man first appeared in Ezekiel and is cited 93 times.
The Son of Man in Ezekiel has many parallels to the Son of Man in the New Testament.

[bobbyadkins]

Matthew 12:8
[8]For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

[maisei]

" I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
- C.S.Lewis, Mere Christianity.

[seyidon]

Jesus is the Son of the living God, who having being sent by God, cane to the world, showed humanity the love of God, died for our sins, resurrected and ascended into heaven to prepare a place for us, so that all who believe him can come to the Father and have everlasting life

[MaryAnn_Pimentel]

Loved this presentation! ❤ Top-tier TV

[tomasizquierdo]

It give us a tremendous power and confidence to know we are the masters of our destinies. We and only we create our heaven or hell. We are responsables of our actions We can’t blame for this to a God or a Devil.

[HangrySaturn]

Bart Ehrman would be tearing this apart so rigorously.

[normanmcdermid]

Jesus had no doubt as to who he was. He was the messiah. He was the son of God.

[jdaze]

Where was Jesus standing when he claimed to be I AM? In the temple. We were specifically warned not to believe it if any man claimed to be God Almighty who stood in the temple, an abomination. This event never happened and Jesus never claimed to be God Almighty. He clearly stated he spoke the words the Father told him to say NOT of himself. Sometimes he spoke directly as if God were speaking (1st person) and other times he told us He was speaking for the Father (3rd person). This happened thruout the OT by the prophets and especially in the Psalms. You have to be able to discern by context who are the words coming from. Anyone born again is anointed by the Spirit to speak as God's anointed Son of Man. We've been given the exact same authority as Jesus possessed because we are begotten of the same incorruptible seed, as noted in James and I Peter. We can forgive sins, heal the blind deaf and lame, cast out demons, etc. it doesn't make us God just like Jesus never claimed to be. He is our brother, one of many firstborn of the Fathers spirit. ((of the 1st resurrection) Not our creator God. Everyone born of the spirit has dual natures. A human nature and our New God nature. We all have the same internal battle to crush satans head. Our old nature. Jesus was no different. Don't believe everything you're told (nor read) and rightly divide truth from scribal lies inserted into scripture to deceive us.
As even Jeremiah, John and others warned. Jer 8.8. thats why we were told to establish the logos of truth by 2 or 3 witnesses line upon line precept upon precept. The Truth will set us free from a strong delusion created by blind guides and lies that started soon after (and before) 70 ad.
Study to show YOURSELF approved by God. Not depending on scholars to tell you what the bible says.
"I even i am YHWH besides ME there is NO SAVIOR". Isaiah 43:11.
There is NO OTHER. Isaiah 45:5-7.
"Put not your trust in Princes nor a SON OF MAN in whom there is NO SALVATION". Psalm 146:3.
" MY PEOPLE perish for lack of knowledge".
The Father is the Way, truth and life. No one gets to the Father except thru being born of the Father. Jesus spoke the words of Truth for the Father.

[savedbymylovegodthelordjes]

the Lord Jesus Christ IS GOD, he's our savior Our Lives❤️

[urasam]

Wait - what? Attested in independent sources? Name them, please!

[Anton-wcsh]

Messiah (translated as Christ in greek) can't be God because the word Messiah means "anointed by God"

[gershom]

Thank you. The gospel of Christ→　Christ died for our sins. He was buried. He was raised on the third day. He appeared to the apostles.　1 Corinthians 15:1-5 Isaiah 53　
Anyone is saved just by believing in the gospel.　 Romans 1:16　Ephesians 2:8-9

[hildazeigler]

I believe Jesus came to show us how to live in intimate relationship with God & in kindness to our neighbors(being everyone on planet earth)

[Charlotte-xhlt]

Jesus was a spiritual teacher and they thought he wanted their kingdoms, not true, Jesus said! My father has many mantions because, Jesus like God didn't need anything from mankind. The world leaders were wrong and, Jesus said forgive them they know not what they do! Jesus was right. Real talk.