Is Jesus really God?

Is Jesus really God?

For a Christian believer the short answer is YES. But why are Christians so sure? The answer lies in the Christian belief that the Bible is truly God’s Word. They believe that the Bible is the divinely inspired, absolutely true collection of histories, stories and God-breathed words that tell the true story of the Jewish people (the Old Testament), and the actual life story of Jesus Christ (the New Testament).

But is the Bible really the infallible Word of God? Over the course of history since the time of Jesus, the infalability of the Bible has been questioned literally hundreds of times. The names of places, ancient cities, events and the actual existence of people mentioned in the Bible have been continously challenged.

And not a single challenge to the validity of the Bible has been successful. In fact, every single modern-day archeological find which has a Biblical connection has proven that the Bible is indeed true.

So, given that Bible is truly God’s Word, what does it say about Jesus?

1. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a virgin when she conceived and gave birth to Jesus. To the Angel who has been sent from God Almighty, Mary asks the obvious question; “How is that possible?” The Angel’s answer, as recorded in Luke 1:35 says “The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God”.
   
2. During His ministry, which began when He was about 30 years old,
   the Bible records that Jesus did many miracles. He healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, cleansed people who had leporosy, and gave life to people who had died. Why did He do these things? He was proving to believers and skeptics alike that He was indeed the Son of the Living God.
   
3. Finally, the Jewish leaders of the day could no longer tolerate Jesus, who they considered a threat to their authority. They also saw Him as a threat to the uneasy “peace” that existed between the Jewish nation and the ruling Roman government.
   
   So, what to do? The answer was simple. Convince the Roman rulers that He was a threat to both the Jewish nation and the Roman government
   
4. Condemned in a mock trial Jesus, the Son of God Almighty, was sentenced to die by cruxifiction. (Physically nailed to a wooden cross and left there until He died.) His body was wrapped in a linen sheet and placed in a tomb. But then an amazing event happened !!! He rose from the dead, and over the next forty days was seen by more than 500 people.

It is this event upon which the Christian faith is built. Christians believe that in this act of dieing and then being raised from the dead by the Power of His Father, Almighy God, , that Jesus defeated Satan, sin and all the powers of hell.

But did Jesus ever actually claim to be the Messiah, the Son of the Living God? Yes !!!

Recorded in Mark 14: 61-62 is an exchange between a religious leader and Jesus. “Again the high priest asked Him “Are You the Messiah, the son of the Blessed One? “I am” said Jesus, “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on clouds of Heaven”.

It is also recorded in John 14:6 that Jesus said “ I am the Way, and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me”.

Jesus is God, the Savior and Messiah, and the pathway to Heaven is only found through a commited belief in Him.