Is Jesus God?

That's a question that people who read the Bible don't all agree on.

It as it turns out.

The word Jesus is God never appears in the New Testament anywhere.

Yet throughout your history, the majority view is that Jesus is God.

So where did we get this?

What does appear many times is Jesus is Lord.

I think for most people what they are trying to say with the sentence Jesus is God is what the Apostles are saying by the phrase Jesus is Lord.

I'm John Collins and this is the Bible Project Podcast.

Tim and I are working through a discussion on the identity of God in the Bible.

And we've finally gotten to Jesus.

In this episode we look at what the Apostles thought of the identity of Jesus of Nazareth.

What modern Westerners typically want is for the Apostles to just say it.

Just say what you think about Jesus.

But instead we get a very Jewish way to talk about Jesus as God.

We'll look at how Mark narratively portrays Jesus as Yahweh himself arriving on the scene.

We'll see how the baptism of Jesus shows God's complex identity of Father, Son, and Spirit all together as one.

And we'll see how Jesus walking around for giving sins is a clear narrative signal of who he thinks he is.

Finally we end the episode today looking at how Jesus refers to God as my Father.

You go through Jesus' teachings about my Father.

He lived from a place of deep, deep conviction that in his essence the Father was gracious,

extremely generous, merciful, compassionate, and that the Christian tradition has received this three-part identity,

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