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 ...

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 ...

But Jesus is God-man, not God-Superman. He became one of us not to shame us for our doubts but to teach us how to doubt well, to doubt faithfully. And so we are somehow saved too by his doubts.

Yet both God and his son Jesus did not want to leave us "in our sin and separation." It was because of God’s "great love" that Jesus came to Earth for us "and died for us," he also said.

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.

Mr. Wehner, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, is a contributing Opinion writer. He attends McLean Presbyterian Church in McLean, Va. Of all the qualities that the New Testament ascribes to God ...