Why is Jesus a God?

[Oceanmoon]

hi,
If Jesus is a human man how was he able to become a God? From what I know that he is a prophet. Also I wonder that if He is son of God but how did God become father? I have heard of the Holy Father, I assume that to mean God? Do Christians worship Jesus or God?

Why did a man die because of everyone's sins? Surely we know right from wrong, does this mean mankind is free to sin without a guilty conscience and the impending consequences of their wrongdoings? So many questions sorry..

Thank you.

 

[Ken Rank]

hi,
If Jesus is a human man how was he able to become a God? From what I know that he is a prophet. Also I wonder that if He is son of God but how did God become father? I have heard of the Holy Father, I assume that to mean God? Do Christians worship Jesus or God?

Why did a man die because of everyone's sins? Surely we know right from wrong, does this mean mankind is free to sin without a guilty conscience and the impending consequences of their wrongdoings? So many questions sorry..

Thank you.

He didn't become a god, He has always been. In fact, you have it reversed. He didn't become a god, He became a man and He did so for the suffering of death.

Adam, who was perfect (sinless), was tempted and gave into temptation. The result was death for him and all who follow. We are born, we age, we die... thanks Adam.

The second Adam (Jesus), came into this world sinless, He was tempted, but He didn't give into His temptation and when He was put to death, He was put to death having known no sin. The grave was designed for death, not perfection... thus it could not hold Him and He rose, 3 days later. That action... reversed Adam's curse.

So God had humbled Himself in fashion as a man, made Himself lower than the angels for the suffering of death, and ascended back to His throne of glory where He waits until the day He returns in the clouds to set up a perfection Kingdom of which we will be part.

 

[Dave-W]

If Jesus is a human man how was he able to become a God?

Our Lord Jesus was not originally a human. He was and always has been God.

John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, [Jesus] and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
....
14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Colossians 1:16
For by Him [Jesus] all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

 

[Melody Suttles]

Here is a 5 min video of Doctor and Scholar, Sir N.T. Wright. I hope it is helpful to you. I would also suggest watching the movie by Mel Gibson, "The Passion of the Christ". The sequel is coming out in 2021 - "The Resurrection". God bless you!

 

[paul1149]

hi,
If Jesus is a human man how was he able to become a God? From what I know that he is a prophet. Also I wonder that if He is son of God but how did God become father? I have heard of the Holy Father, I assume that to mean God? Do Christians worship Jesus or God?

Why did a man die because of everyone's sins? Surely we know right from wrong, does this mean mankind is free to sin without a guilty conscience and the impending consequences of their wrongdoings? So many questions sorry..

Thank you.

Hello, @Oceanmoon , thank you for your interesting questions. We believe that God consists of three distinct persons, bound together in perfect unity by their perfect love in a Trinity. Adam sinned, cursing all his descendants with sin and its ultimate consequence, death. We could not save ourselves, because it would take the sacrifice of a perfect man to atone for the perfect life that Adam lost. Therefore, out of love the second Person of the Trinity, the Son of God, became a man and ultimately died to pay our sin-debt. God showed that He accepted this sacrifice on our behalf by raising Jesus from death. Subsequently all who believe in Christ for salvation are no longer subject to the curse of Adam, but have been born again to a new and perfect life in union with the Son of God. At some point the Father will say it is time to bring this fallen dispensation to a close, so that the Kingdom of God that Jesus founded, which will include all who trust in Him, can be fully established.

So we worship both Jesus and the Father. Both are God, as is the Holy Spirit.

We who are in Christ are not free to sin without guilt. Rather, we now are free, by the power of the Holy Spirit living within us, to live without sin. Because we are not perfected yet we still sin now and then, but we have a Mediator who intercedes for us, and when we confess our sins we are forgiven and God has promised to wash all unrighteousness away (1 John 1:9). (If you hover over that link the verse should pop up.) But though we are forgiven of the sin, sometimes sin has earthly consequences that cannot be avoided. So we have two reasons not to sin - we don't want to disappoint the Father who loves us so much (John 3:16), and we don't want to bring consequences upon ourselves.

Hope this helps a little. It's good to ask questions, and if you can do some Bible reading - the Gospels of John or Mark are good places to start - that is good too. Be well.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

There is no comparison at all of Sovereign Almighty God with any other created thing that is called a god.

 

[Albion]

hi,
If Jesus is a human man how was he able to become a God?

He wasn't a man who became a god. He was God and then assumed a human nature as well.

From what I know that he is a prophet.

That's a mistake. He claimed to be God, did things that only God can do, and was acclaimed as God by those who encountered him.

If you are familiar with what Christians call the "New Testament" writings, all of this is to be found on its pages. In fact, there is one incident in which the Jewish religious leaders condemned him for claiming to be God, so they too had picked up on that fact (and of course they did not approve.. They would not have reacted that way if he had merely been seen as another prophet or person claiming to be one).

Also I wonder that if He is son of God but how did God become father?

It's terminology. All three have existed from all eternity.

I have heard of the Holy Father, I assume that to mean God? Do Christians worship Jesus or God?

God is one entity but triune by nature: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. We, therefore, worship God, which includes all three.

Why did a man die because of everyone's sins?

It was God who suffered the death of a Man, you see. Only he could adequately atone for the sins of Mankind.

Surely we know right from wrong, does this mean mankind is free to sin without a guilty conscience and the impending consequences of their wrongdoings? So many questions sorry..

No. Wrongdoing is always, automatically, wrong. It is only the consequences of sin that you are asking about here.

 

[crossnote]

hi,
If Jesus is a human man how was he able to become a God? From what I know that he is a prophet. Also I wonder that if He is son of God but how did God become father? I have heard of the Holy Father, I assume that to mean God? Do Christians worship Jesus or God?

Why did a man die because of everyone's sins? Surely we know right from wrong, does this mean mankind is free to sin without a guilty conscience and the impending consequences of their wrongdoings? So many questions sorry..

Thank you.

1 Timothy 3:16 KJVS
[16] And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Then there is the other mystery the rest of the world is following...

Revelation 17:1-2,5 KJVS
[1] And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters: [2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. [5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

 

[Oceanmoon]

thank you