Here is why Jesus is significant!
1. Jesus professed things unlike any man:
Some of Jesus’ many claims that we see in the Bible are found in Matthew 28:18, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me...”, Matthew 28:20, “Jesus says that He will be with His people always, until the end of the age”. Jesus also forgave sins. Jesus made numerous claims and statements that only God can make happen.
2. Jesus performed miracles that were never seen before:
All the miracles that Jesus performed are a lot of evidence, justifying the fact that He is God. Jesus would not have the power to perform miracles the way He did, if He wasn't God. He fed more than 5000 people by multiplying 5 loaves and 2 fish, He healed the deaf, blind, lepers, raised the dead back to life, and calmed storms. Jesus said in John 10:37-38 “37 Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. 38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
3. Jesus existed even before the world came to be:
John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” A little later in John 17:5 Jesus said, “And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.” No one could maintain the kind of consistency and accuracy that the Bible has; if it was not true and divine.
4. Jesus claimed to be God:
In John 10:33, we see some becoming furious because Jesus claimed to be God. In John 20:28, Thomas says to Jesus, “my Lord, my God'', and Jesus receives his words. All through the Bible, when angels were mistaken to be God, they instantly clarified that they weren’t God. If Jesus wasn’t God He would’ve corrected Thomas instantly. Even the Bible called Jesus “God”, in the prophecies of the Old Testament. In Isaiah 9:6, Jesus is called, “mighty God” and Colossians 1:15 calls Jesus the image of an invisible God.
5. Only God could defeat death:
Only God can have power over sin and the grave. Jesus’ resurrection from the dead on the third day like he claimed, proved He is God.
Jesus is God, and He welcomes all who believe in his saving grace. Don’t let different, passed-on world views cause you to reject what you see to be true. Allow yourself to step back and reconsider everything believed until now, and realign it with what you know the truth to be.
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