Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among ...

After all, they crucified Jesus for "saying that you are God" (see Luke 22:66-71). Blasphemy was as bad a sin as it was possible to commit, to those people. -"I am He," said Jesus on several ...

Read an excerpt from How Jesus Became God. In this book I have tried to approach this question in a way that will be useful not only for secular historians of religion like me, but also for ...

This does not mean that Jesus is 50% God and 50% man, but rather that Jesus is both fully God and fully man, he said. The Transfiguration was also a display of all three persons in the Trinity ...

Of all the provocative things that Jesus did, it was his claim to be the Messiah, or ‘Son of God’ that most disturbed the religious authorities. Only a divine being has the power to defeat ...

Jesus’ Resurrection is not an isolated event, a one-off, personal reward to him. (“You did good, Jesus, now get out of that tomb!”) No, Jesus’ Resurrection is proof of his divine credentials.

Jesus represents the human face of God — and how much God loves us, says Missouri priest Christians can find strength in Jesus' declaration that he is 'the way,' as this Bible verse makes clear.

Jesus did not die to appease an angry God, but I would still leave my words as they were. What God would not ultimately ask of us, God freely gives. The Father sacrifices his son Jesus, ...

Peeler dives into biblical depictions of the gender of God—not to argue against his maleness, but rather to show how he is not fully male. “To think of God as beyond gender in the sense that God . . .