Who is Jesus?

Imagine what an introduction from this God might look like; imagine this God wanted to show us what they are like. There could be messages sent to us (and Christians think this God has done that). Perhaps there might be intentional clues and hints put into the fabric of this world (and we think God has done that too). 

But by far the best way for God to be fully introduced to us would be for God to genuinely become a human. Because then, if we met this God-human, we wouldn’t just be learning about God, we would actually be meeting God! 

The first way Christians understand who Jesus is, is that he is God become human – Jesus is God introducing us to God’s self in a way that we can really know the God who made this universe and everything in it.

This human lived at a particular time and at a particular place – being an individual human meant he had a particular culture, a particular gender, a particular body, a particular group of friends and acquaintances, and a particular name – Jesus.

But these friends and acquaintances noticed that Jesus said and did things that humans don’t do. He healed people; he controlled the wind and rain with a word; he spent time with outcasts and people that polite society rejected. And when he died, he came back alive again. Normal people don’t do that! Those around him eventually worked out that the reason for all this is that God’s Spirit was guiding and empowering him.