Nancy De Maswaqhu says most people you run into today don't mind believing Jesus was a great man or even a prophet

But they don't want a Jesus with all authority and power because that means accountability.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy Damas Walgumu,

author of Lies Women Believe and The Truth that sets them free.

For February 27, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. Do you believe that Jesus is God? Does it really matter? Let's listen as Nancy

addresses those questions continuing in the series

incomparable the person of Christ. We want to look today at the deity of

Christ and answer this question, who was Jesus? Is he or is he not God? When we talk about

the deity of Christ, that's the question we're addressing, the Godness of Christ, the fact that he is God.

And I want to start by affirming what the scripture teaches in many places, but for example in

1st Timothy 3 verse 16, God was manifested in the flesh.

When Jesus came to this earth and was born in Bethlehem as a little baby that was God being manifested

in the flesh.

The incarnation, we call it, God taking on human flesh. And this is the doctrine of the deity of Christ.

The fact that he is, God, is foundational to Christianity. If that is not true, the whole structure crumbles. As

Oswald Sanders says in the book The incomparable Christ, if Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity.

And we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters.

This doctrine of the deity of Christ, the fact that he was God is hugely important.

So it should come as no surprise to us that throughout history there have been challenges to his deity,

attacks on his deity. People have disputed this even within the church.

In the fourth century, for example, going back hundreds of years, there was a bishop named Arius, and he believed and taught that Jesus

was a highly exalted but created being.

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