Jesus was a lower-class Jewish preacher from the backwaters of rural Galilee who was condemned for illegal activities and crucified for crimes against the state. Yet not long after his death, his ...
To hear atheists and even liberal self-identified “Christians” tell it, the doctrine that Jesus is the incarnate God and Second Person of the Holy Trinity, is supposedly utterly unclear in the Bible, ...
When Bart Ehrman was a young Evangelical Christian, he wanted to know how God became a man, but now, as an agnostic and historian of early Christianity, he wants to know how a man became God. When and ...
If any part of 2020 could be considered short, it was the Christmas season. I hope you were able to bask in the enjoyment of the Christmas lights, music, movies and gifts. All are a fun part of the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery of ancient artifacts often excites historians, but a recent find in Israel has Christians intrigued: a nearly ...
God said, ‘I AM Who I AM. You must tell them: The One Who is called I AM has sent me to you.’ (Exodus 3:14) John’s Gospel uses the Greek phrase, egō eimi, (i.e., “I AM”) as Jesus comes to define his ...
What can we say about how Jesus most likely understood himself? Did he call himself the messiah? If so, what did he mean by it? And did he call himself God? Here I want to stake out a clear position: ...
Pope Francis leads his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican March 3, 2021. The pope talked about prayer and how Jesus is the open door for a loving dialogue with God.
"And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light" (Matthew 17:2). This verse comes from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels ...
In How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman explores how a Jewish preacher from Galilee was transformed into a deity. "Jesus himself didn't call himself... If Jesus Never Called Himself God, How Did He ...