![]() ![]() ![]() Right at the same time that Christians were calling Jesus "God" is exactly when Romans started calling their emperors "God." So these Christians were not doing this in a vacuum they were actually doing it in a context. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. This is not an unusual view amongst scholars it's simply the view that the Gospel of John is providing a theological understanding of Jesus that is not what was historically accurate.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title How Jesus Became God Subtitle The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee Author Bart D. That would be a rather important point to make. I think it's completely implausible that Matthew, Mark and Luke would not mention that Jesus called himself God if that's what he was declaring about himself. ![]() Jesus says things like, "Before Abraham was, I am." And, "I and the Father are one," and, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father." These are all statements you find only in the Gospel of John, and that's striking because we have earlier gospels and we have the writings of Paul, and in none of them is there any indication that Jesus said such things. ![]() You do find Jesus calling himself God in the Gospel of John, or the last Gospel. none of his disciples had any inkling at all that he was God. During his lifetime, Jesus himself didn't call himself God and didn't consider himself God, and. ![]()
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