* Because Jesus and the Father are both one and distinct, we can say that God ‘sent his son into the world’ - (John 3:16), and also that Jesus came into the world (1 Tim 1:15) - we are speaking about essentially the same action on the part of God, but on the one hand, God the Father sends, on the other, God the Son comes.

Jesus is God on earth John goes on to explain the staggering fact of the ‘incarnation’ (John 1:14-18): This God - the creator and sustainer of all things - chose to enter his creation. He became truly human and lived among us. In the (human) person …

However the nature of the oneness of God shifted radically with the coming of Jesus. As the Son of God, Jesus taught his disciples that he and his Father were one [John 10:30, 17:11]. In addition, Jesus teaching about himself and the Holy Spirit [John 14:26; 15:26] demonstrated that God is one God, but three different persons - Father, Son and ...

The gospels describe Jesus being tempted to reject God’s ways, but he resisted. Christians believe Jesus was truly God. The records of his life recount eyewitnesses who observed his power. He displayed power over disease, nature and even death. He was able to cast out demons, exerting authority over powers of evil. Jesus claimed equality with ...

None of us has loved God or our neighbours to the extent that Jesus describes. God holds us responsible for our failure. Jesus teaches about a time in the future when we will all have to come before God in judgement and face the consequences for the way we have lived. This is a serious business. Yet there is a way out

God sent Jesus to show the world that even though we don’t want a relationship with God, he still wants a relationship with us. Even though we deserve God’s punishment, Jesus died to save us and bring us back to God. This is what Jesus says about his death, ‘And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself’.

But God will not let us treat him as less than God. One day we will be judged for the way we treat God. But the great news is that Jesus came to reveal who God is, and to take our punishment for the way we’ve treated God. When Jesus died on the cross, he took our death and allowed us to be forgiven and have a relationship with God.

But with the coming of Jesus, this forced Christians to extend their thinking on just what God was like. In the New Testament, Jesus made it clear that not only was he the son of the Father [John 8:42 & 14:9], but he was also God, right from the beginning [John 1:1-3 & 1:14]. The HS becomes significantly more prominent in the New Testament as well.

Heaven is first and foremost the presence of God and since God is Spirit (John 4:24) and exists outside both time and space then heaven can be seen as spiritual and being in heaven as a state of being. Yet the physical resurection of Jesus speaks of a physical reality as, indeed, does our own bodily resurection on the last day.

Jesus was there with God the Father when he made the world. And in fact God made the world through Jesus and for Jesus (Colossians 1:16). Jesus proved that he is God when he rose from the dead, and he did many other things that only God can do (for example commanding a storm on the sea to be quiet, Mark 4:35-41). Jesus is absolutely unique in ...