What are some of the Common Arguments Against the Resurrection?

About Jesus, All Questions

Five arguments against the Resurrection refuted.

Category

Jesus,   All Questions

Last Updated

Jul 16, 2026

Reading Time 'Minutes'

Word Count

There are five common arguments used to explain or refute the resurrection event. The answers to these arguments, however, further only help to demonstrate the authenticity and credibility of the resurrection.

ARGUMENT 1

“Jesus’ enemies would have taken / stolen His body.”

This scenario would be highly improbable because Jesus' enemies would have certainly displayed His body if they could have, to humiliate His disciples, control any rumors of His resurrection, and cut short any new religious movement that would threaten their Mosaic traditions.

ARGUMENT 2

“Jesus’ followers might have taken His body.”

It is unlikely that Jesus’ followers would have taken His body because, following His crucifixion, they were profoundly disappointed and discouraged.

They also hid away and did not believe that He would resurrect as He had promised. It is absurd to think that, given their emotional state, they would have invented a scheme wherein they would steal the body to fabricate a story that they did not fully believe in and to be killed for.

Additionally, there is a problem with this theory because the Roman soldiers that guarded the tomb were trained military personnel. If the soldiers were found asleep during duty, they faced execution. The soldiers had every motive to stay awake. Thus, it was unlikely that the disciples could steal the body of Christ while they were asleep.

ARGUMENT 3

“No one had actually seen Jesus risen, and people who claimed to were just hallucinating with grief.”

Hallucinations are an individual phenomenon, not a group event. An individual can hallucinate; but group hallucinations over the same experience do not happen. After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to over five hundred brethren at once (1 Corinthians 15:6) — and Paul writes this while many of them were still alive. In fact, Paul was not even in a state of grief when Christ appeared to him; he was actively persecuting Christians on the road to Damascus (Acts 9) when he had the encounter with Christ.

ARGUMENT 4

“The Conversion of Paul could have happened by him just exploring other faiths as it occurs in today’s world.”

Paul wasn't someone who was exploring the Christian faith; he was on a mission to destroy the followers of Christ. He was dragging believers from their homes and travelling to arrest more of them in Damascus when Jesus stopped him (Acts 8:3; Acts 9:1–9).

Paul ended up losing everything for his faith in Christ. He had been a rising Pharisee, student of Gamaliel, with status, career, and a future. After Damascus, he was beaten with rods, given thirty-nine lashes five times, stoned, shipwrecked, imprisoned, and eventually executed (2 Corinthians 11:23–27). He even called his former credentials “rubbish” compared to knowing Christ (Philippians 3:7–8).

The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Galatian church further confirms the fact that he received the gospel directly from Jesus:

Galatians 1:11-12 (NKJV)

But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

He even tells us he avoided the other apostles after his conversion. He went into Arabia, returned to Damascus, and only met Peter three years later — and even then, only for fifteen days (Galatians 1:16–18). That is the opposite of someone slowly absorbing the teaching of a community. His convictions came from one source: a personal encounter with the risen Christ. He was willing to die for it — and eventually did.

ARGUMENT 5

“Jesus didn’t really die on the cross. He passed out, revived in the cool of the tomb, and escaped.”

First, Jesus was certainly dead. Before the cross He was scourged — a Roman flogging severe enough that it sometimes killed men on its own. Then He was crucified, a method of execution designed to end in death. When the soldiers came to break the prisoners' legs to hasten the end, they found Jesus already dead and didn't bother (John 19:33). To make sure, one of them drove a spear into His side, and “blood and water” came out (John 19:34) — a separation that physicians recognise as a sign that death had already taken place. These were professional executioners; ending lives was their trade. Pilate himself was surprised Jesus had died so quickly and summoned the centurion to verify it before releasing the body (Mark 15:44–45).

Second, it is impossible to think that a survivor could have escaped. Suppose Jesus had only fainted; He was then wrapped in linen with about a hundred pounds of myrrh and aloes (John 19:39–40), laid in a tomb sealed by a stone far too heavy for one man to move, with a Roman guard posted outside for security (Matthew 27:65–66). A man barely clinging to life does not unwrap himself, roll back the stone from the inside, overpower trained soldiers, and walk away.

Third, even if He had escaped, it would prove nothing. A man who had just survived scourging and crucifixion would have emerged broken, bleeding, and desperate for care. He would have stirred pity, not worship. He could never have persuaded His disciples that He was the risen Lord who had defeated death — yet that is precisely what they believed, preached, and died for. As the sceptic David Strauss conceded nearly two centuries ago, a half-dead man crawling from a tomb could never have produced the conviction that swept the early church.

The resurrection is not a claim that survives by force of argument. It is a claim that has survived because the evidence is what it is. Every alternative explanation requires more faith than the resurrection itself.

EVEN THESE SIX REASONS COULD NOT CONTAIN HIM IN THE GRAVE. JESUS IS ALIVE.

What is the Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?

About Jesus, All Questions

What is the Evidence for the Resurrection ?

Category

Jesus,   All Questions

Last Updated

Jul 16, 2026

Reading Time 'Minutes'

Word Count

It is a fundamental part of Christianity to believe that Jesus rose from the dead. Therefore, Christians should always be prepared to explain the resurrection.

The Apostle Paul even stressed the importance of this question when he said that if Jesus didn't rise from the dead, then our faith is useless, and we are utterly deceived.

1 Corinthians 15:14-19 (NKJV)

And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

To tackle this question, we will look at five specific areas: Crucifixion, Disciples, Paul's conversion, James's conversion, and the Empty tomb — what we'll call the CDPJE evidences.

The Crucifixion

Jesus died at the crucifixion. To prove that Jesus had resurrected, we first need to determine that He actually died (as people still claim He did not). Let's look at some facts about the crucifixion event.

  • All four gospel accounts (Matthew / Mark / Luke / John) record this historical crucifixion event.
  • No reputable scholar would dispute that Jesus was crucified. Even among skeptics who deny the deity of Christ, most of them would agree historically that a Man named Jesus was on the earth and that He died by crucifixion.
  • The guards who crucified Jesus were professional executioners. Roman soldiers faced severe penalties for failure of duty; the guards had every motive to certify death. That is why the Roman soldiers pierced Jesus on His side to see if the water and blood were separated, as is consistent with physical death.

Disciples and Paul's Conversion: 

As soon as the disciples had seen Jesus risen, they came out of hiding and continued to preach the gospel. They could have remained in hiding, but they chose to follow Him, preaching the gospel and even dying terrible deaths for it.

Additionally, while the disciples, who had been part of Jesus' three-year ministry, would have had a good reason to follow Him, the Apostle Paul did not have the same motivation.

Paul did not know Jesus personally during His 3-year ministry. In fact, Paul was converted while on a mission of persecuting Christians (refer to Acts chapter 9). Paul's drastic change can only be explained by him supernaturally witnessing the resurrected Christ.

The Conversion of James:  

James, like all of Jesus' brothers, did not believe in Him during His earthly ministry (John 7:5). But after the resurrection, the risen Christ appeared to him (1 Corinthians 15:7), and James was radically transformed. He went on to lead the church in Jerusalem, where tradition gave him the name ‘Camel Knees’ — his knees grown hard from kneeling in prayer for the people.

His conversion made him a target. Eventually an angry mob seized him, threw him from the pinnacle of the temple where he so often prayed, and began to stone him. Early traditions record that as the stones fell, James knelt and prayed: “Lord, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

The same words his brother had prayed from the cross.

The Tomb was Empty:  

There are three key facts about the empty tomb of Jesus:

  1. Jesus’ enemies admitted the body was missing.

When a friend confirms your story, people can dismiss it as bias. When an enemy confirms it, that's harder to wave away — they have nothing to gain by helping your case.

This is what happened with the empty tomb. The chief priests, the very men who had Jesus killed, paid the soldiers guarding the tomb to spread a different story: that the disciples came at night and stole the body while they slept (Matthew 28:11–15).

Notice what that admits. They never claimed the tomb still had a body in it — they couldn't. So instead they invented a cover story for the absence. Even Jesus' enemies didn't dispute that the tomb was empty. They only disputed why.

  1. Testimony of women on seeing the resurrected Christ.

In ancient times, women were often marginalized in society — their testimonies were even considered less valid than those of men. Interestingly, all four gospels independently report women as the first witnesses to find the tomb empty.

If the Gospel writers were fabricating the story about the resurrection, relying on women as primary witnesses would have seemed counterproductive in convincing their audience. However, the writers' choice to use this fact even suggests that they committed to report events as they occurred rather than constructing a more culturally palatable narrative.

  1. The resurrection was preached in Jerusalem first — not somewhere far away.

If you wanted to start a religion based on a lie, the last place you would start is the city where your story can be checked. Yet Peter stood up in Jerusalem fifty days after the crucifixion and preached the risen Christ to a crowd of thousands (Acts 2:14–36). The chief priests, the Roman authorities, and the tomb itself were all within walking distance.

If the body had still been in the tomb, ending the movement would have taken an afternoon. Just produce the body. Christianity couldn't have survived a week. Instead, it spread fastest in the very place where it was easiest to disprove.

Conclusion  

Taking all these facts into account, we can conclude that Jesus did exist, was crucified, and people around Him, including those who did not personally know Him, witnessed Him resurrected.

In addition to proving every claim about Christ made by the prophets and apostles, the resurrection of Jesus also erased doubts about His divinity.

The resurrection proved that Jesus truly spoke of things that the Father taught Him, that the Father was one with Him, and that He always did things that pleased the Father, for He could do nothing else in His divine perfection (Heb. 7:26). The resurrection is not just history. It is the reason the rest of the New Testament exists.

And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

1 Corinthians 15:14-20

Is Jesus the only way to Heaven?

About Jesus, All Questions

Is Jesus the only way to Heaven?

Category

Jesus,   All Questions

Last Updated

Jul 16, 2026

Reading Time 'Minutes'

Word Count

Few claims in Christianity sound more out of step with modern culture than the claim that Jesus is the only way to heaven. To most people outside the church, it lands as arrogant — a Christian declaring his religion superior to every other. To many inside the church, it sits uncomfortably too — what about the sincere Hindu, the kind Muslim, the moral atheist? Surely a loving God would not condemn anyone simply for being born in the wrong place.

The popular alternative goes by several names — religious pluralism, universalism, inclusivism — but it shares a single instinct: that a loving God could not allow anyone to be ultimately lost.

In this article we will look at three of the most common objections raised against Christian exclusivism — and the answers Scripture gives back.

Argument 1

“It does not matter what you believe as long as you are sincere in your choices.”

Answer

A man with a pounding headache opens his bathroom cabinet and pulls out the bottle of painkillers he has used for years. He shakes out three pills and swallows them with a glass of water. He does not know the bottle was refilled the week before with something else. He was sincere — he believed they were the same pills he always took. His sincerity did not change what was in the bottle.

This is the problem with the claim that belief does not matter as long as you mean it. People are sincerely wrong all the time.

Consider a scenario where two individuals sincerely hold contradictory beliefs. The sincerity of their convictions doesn't automatically validate the truthfulness of those beliefs. Religion works the same way. Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and Christians do not hold slightly different versions of the same idea. They make claims about God, about humanity, about salvation, and about eternity that flatly contradict one another. Jesus is either the Son of God or He is not. He either rose from the dead or He did not. Both cannot be true at once.

Sincerity is not the same as being right. For sincerity to mean anything, there has to be a real truth to be sincere about. Without that, “being right” just means “feeling sure” — and the two are not the same.

There are also two kinds of claims at work here. An objective claim is one that is true no matter what anyone thinks or feels about it. A subjective claim depends on the person — their preferences, their feelings, their perspective.

This is why sincerity cannot decide truth. Sincerity is subjective. Truth is objective.

Christians believe that the Bible is a trustworthy source of objective truth and is foundational for determining right from wrong. The real question is not how earnestly you hold a belief, but whether the belief matches reality. Sincerity matters — but it matters because it carries you toward the truth, not because it replaces it.

Argument 2

“Only narrow-minded people would believe that there is only one way to heaven.”

Answer

It's no secret that many of us are narrow-minded in life. The real question is not whether a path is narrow. The real question is whether it is true.

Picture a deep chasm with God on the other side. Two bridges stretch across it. The first is wide, well-built, and impressive to look at. The second is narrow and plain. There is one difference between them: only the narrow one reaches the far side. The wide one stops halfway.

Which bridge would you take?

The worth of a bridge is not measured by how wide it is. It is measured by whether it reaches the other side. A narrow bridge that gets you across is better than a wide one that does not.

Christianity claims that the only bridge that reaches across is the one God Himself built — Christ crucified, Christ risen. Every other path stops short of the other side.

The earliest Christians staked everything on this fact. After Peter and John healed a man who had been lame from birth at the temple gate, they were arrested and brought before the Jewish ruling council. The council demanded to know by what authority they had done it. Peter answered with one of the most exclusive claims in the New Testament:

Acts 4:10-12 (NKJV)

let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

It is worth adding here that the Christian faith is in fact one of the most inclusive and welcoming religions. The path of salvation is open to all who would choose to follow Jesus — regardless of their background, past choices, or circumstances.

Argument 3

“There is no ‘one way’ to Heaven. There is one destination but many paths. It is like climbing a mountain, there could be several paths, but they would all arrive at the top, at the same destination.”

Answer

On the surface, all the world's religions look similar. Most of them teach kindness, honesty, humility, and other moral values. If religion is judged by its ethics alone then you could conclude that they are all quite similar. But every religion also makes fundamental truth claims about God, about humanity, and about salvation — and they are all different.

Islam teaches that Jesus did not die on the cross; Christianity teaches He did. Hinduism teaches the self is divine; Christianity teaches the self is fallen and needs a Saviour outside itself. Judaism awaits a Messiah; Christianity says He has come. These are not different paths up the same mountain. They are different mountains and they do not lead to the same destination.

When Jesus stood before His disciples on the night before His crucifixion, He left them with a sentence that the church has never been able to dilute: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). He did not say He was a way. He said He was the way.

The question is not whether the path is narrow. The question is whether Jesus is who He said He is. There is no third position.

I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me'

John 14:6

What is Jesus’ most significant claim to be God?

About Jesus, All Questions

What is Jesus' most significant claim to be God?

Category

Jesus,   All Questions

Last Updated

Jul 16, 2026

Reading Time 'Minutes'

Word Count

If you want to hear Jesus plainly say who He is, listen to Him on trial.

It is the night before the crucifixion. He has been arrested and brought before the high priest, and the questions come one after another. To most of them He says nothing. Then the high priest asks the one question that matters:

Mark 14:61-62 (NKJV)

But He kept silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” Jesus said, “I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

To our ears that answer sounds almost cryptic — a string of strange titles and images. But the high priest understood it instantly, and what he understood horrified him. The reason is that every phrase Jesus used was lifted straight out of the Old Testament, and one passage specifically in Daniel Chapter 7.

Daniel 7:13-14 (NKJV)

“I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him. Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed.”

Look closely at this vision. There are two figures. One seated on the throne — “the Ancient of Days,” God Himself. The other is approaching Him: “One like the Son of Man,” a figure in human form, coming on the clouds of heaven. And that small phrase — coming on the clouds — is crucial.

Everywhere else in the Old Testament, the One who comes on the clouds is Yahweh (Psalm 104:3 / Isaiah 19:1 / Nahum 1:3). Riding on the cloud is something God does. No one else.

So here is a human-looking figure doing what, in every other passage, only God does. And it does not stop there. What He is then given: dominion, glory, and a kingdom; the service of every nation on earth; a reign that will never end. A mere creature could never be handed the worship of all peoples and an everlasting throne — that belongs to God. Yet this human figure receives exactly that.

Now going back to the courtroom. When Jesus tells the high priest, “You will see the Son of Man… coming with the clouds of heaven,” He is not reaching for a humble title. He is placing Himself inside Daniel’s vision. He is saying: I am that figure — the One in human form who does what only Yahweh does and receives what only God receives. That is why the high priest tore his robes (Mark 14:63) and the council condemned Him as deserving of death for blasphemy (Mark 14:64). They were not confused. They understood the claim exactly — and to them, on the lips of a man, it was the highest blasphemy imaginable.

This also clears up a common mix-up. Many assume ‘Son of Man’ is simply Jesus’ human title, and ‘Son of God’ His divine one. However, the opposite is true. “Son of God” is a name Scripture hands to many — to Adam (Luke 3:38), to angels (Job 1:6), to the nation of Israel (Hosea 11:1), to the kings of David’s line (2 Samuel 7:14). But there is only one “Son of Man” who comes on the clouds and shares God’s throne — and that is the title Jesus deliberately chose for Himself.

And there was a second claim folded into the very same sentence. Jesus did not only say He would come on the clouds; He said the Son of Man would be “sitting at the right hand of the Power” — “the Power” being a reverent Jewish way of naming God without speaking His name.

Additionally, Jesus’ statement also reminds us of another text: “The LORD said to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right hand’” (Psalm 110:1). And the posture matters. In the Old Testament, men stand before God — Moses stood with Him on the mountain, Enoch walked with Him, Adam walked with Him in the garden — but no one ever sits. To sit at God’s right hand is to share His throne and His rule. No prophet, no patriarch, no king ever dared claim such a seat.

Jesus claimed it — and the church confesses He holds it still, seated at the Father’s right hand in sovereign power, glory, and authority.

So in a single answer, on the night He was condemned, Jesus claimed to do what only God does, to receive what only God receives, and to reign where only God reigns. The high priest heard all three, and tore his robes. He fully understood who Jesus was claiming to be.

Other related articles:

Is Jesus God?

How can Jesus be co-equal to God when He said the Father is greater?

How can Jesus be both God and man?

Why is Jesus called ‘Son of God’?

Jesus said, “I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

Mark 14:62

Is Jesus God?

About Jesus, All Questions

Is Jesus God?

Category

Jesus,   All Questions

Last Updated

Jul 16, 2026

Reading Time 'Minutes'

Word Count

⚡Quick Answer

Yes — Jesus is God. He claimed the divine name for Himself (John 8:58), claimed equality with the Father (John 10:30), forgave sins, received worship, and exercised authority that belongs to God alone — and His apostles and the early church confessed Him as Lord and God. These are not titles invented by the church centuries later; they are claims Jesus Himself made, and His resurrection vindicated every one of them.

Throughout history there has always been confusion regarding the person of Jesus Christ. While most people readily accept that He was once a man, many will rage at claims that state He was anything more than that. This is why it is imperative that every believer has a biblical answer to questions raised against the deity of Jesus.

Some have also alleged that Jesus never said He was God, but this is incorrect. Jesus asserted that He was God, and His statements shocked the listeners who heard Him.

Let's look at some of Jesus’ claims concerning His deity, including those of His closest followers and the statements of the early church.

Claims of Jesus:

    • To be the eternal Yahweh (John 8:58)
    • To have equality with God (John 10:30)
    • To be able to forgive sin (Mark 2:5–10; Luke 7:48; Matthew 9:2)
    • To be the Lord of Sabbath (Mark 2:28)
    • To have all authority in heaven and on earth (Matt. 11:27; 28:18; John 17:2; cf. John 3:35; 13:3; 1 Cor. 15:27; Heb. 1:2)
    • To have the authority to answer prayers (John 13:13-14)
    • To be the Apocalyptic ‘Son of Man’ (Mark 14:62; Daniel 7:13-14)
    • To be the Lord of King David (Matthew 22:41-45)
    • To be Greater than the temple of God (Matthew 12:6)
    • To be the supreme Judge who will one day return in glory (Matt. 16:27; 24:30; Acts 1:11; 2 Thess. 1:7)
    • To be wherever His followers are gathered (Matthew 18:20)
    • To be with His followers forever (Matthew 28:20)
    • To be Eternal (Micah 5:2; Isaiah 9:6)
    • To have come down from heaven (John 3:13; 6:38, 62; 8:23)
    • To be the determiner of people’s eternal destinies (Matt. 16:27; 25:31–46; John 5:22, 27, 30)
    • To be the source of eternal life (Mark 10:29–30; John 3:16; 4:14; 5:39–40; 6:27, 40, 47, 54; 10:28; 11:25; 14:6; 17:2)
    • To have the right to be honored on an equal basis with the Father (John 5:23)
    • To be one with the Father (John 10:30)
    • To have the power to raise the dead (John 5:28–29) and even rise from the dead Himself (Matt. 16:21)
    • To be the One to whom the Old Testament Scriptures pointed (John 5:39)
    • To be omnipresent - ever-present (Matthew 18:20; 28:20)
    • To be omniscient - all-knowing (Matthew 11:27; John 16:30; 21:17)
    • To be omnipotent - all-powerful (Philippians 3:21)

Furthermore, in John 5:17–24, Jesus makes five distinct claims of being equal with God. He claims to be equal with the Father in His person, in His sovereign power, in His works, in His judgment, and in the honor that is due to Him.

John 5:17-24 (NKJV)

But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working. Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

Claims of Jesus’ Followers

 

Moreover, we also see statements by Jesus’ close disciples who acknowledged Him as God. Despite some of them taking a while to fully realize it, they finally discerned that behind His humanity dwelt the glory of His divinity.

    • Thomas called Jesus God (John 20:28)
    • John calls Jesus God (John 1:1; John 1:14)
    • Matthew refers to Jesus as Immanuel in his book (Matthew 1:23)
    • Peter recognized divine identity as the “Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16)

Claims of the early Church

 

It is sometimes claimed that the church invented the deity of Christ — that the first Christians admired Jesus as a great teacher, and only centuries later did the church councils vote Him into godhood. This is actually backwards. In fact, the early church, led by the ecumenical councils, defended the deity of Christ, and they put their conclusions into careful words that Christians had already confessed and worshipped from the beginning.

(An ecumenical council was a gathering of church leaders from across the known world, called to settle a disputed question of doctrine.)

The Council of Nicaea (AD 325) confessed that the Son is of one substance with the Father — homoousios. Fully God, not a creature. Nicaea was answering Arius, an Alexandrian presbyter who taught that the Son was the highest of all created beings but not God Himself — that “there was a time when He was not.” The church’s reply was that the Son shares the Father’s very being: He is not made, but eternally God.

The Council of Chalcedon (AD 451) sharpened the doctrine further. It confessed that Jesus is one person with two natures, fully God and fully man — “without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.” Theologians call this the hypostatic union.

These are not later inventions. They were the church’s first formal, churchwide definition of who Jesus is — and they read like the New Testament because they were drawn from it.

Concluding Remarks

 

As we can see from these clear statements, there is sufficient evidence for anyone to recognize that Jesus was more than just a man. He was God revealing Himself in human flesh. In fact, there are only three possible explanations for the claims that Jesus made.

(1) Either he was a Lunatic, (2) a Liar or (3) exactly who He claimed to be - that is, Lord.

This analogy is taken from C. S. Lewis, the famous author, who had this to say concerning the deity of Christ and those who claim that Jesus was merely a good teacher;

”A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about Him being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

Other related articles:

What is Jesus’ most significant claim to be God?

How can Jesus be both God and man?

Why is Jesus called ‘Son of God’?

How can Jesus be co-equal to God when He said the Father is greater?

“Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

John 8:58