Unbelievable? 10 Oct 2009 - Jesus and the God of Israel

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🗓️ 5 June 2014

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Many have suggested that Christian belief in the divinity and worship of Jesus as God was a late development, and that Jesus' early followers did not regard him as being equal with God. So was Jesus merely regarded as an "elevated" being? Was high Christology at odds with the Jewish monotheism of the first century? New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham argues against these views. His book "Jesus and the God of Israel" claims that the worship of Jesus as God was both very Jewish and very early. Agnostic scholar James Crossley contests Richard's claims. Click here for the book "Jesus and the God of Israel" (Paternoster) For Richard Bauckham visit http://www.ridley.cam.ac.uk/people/rbauckham.html For James Crossley see http://shef.ac.uk/bibs/staff/jgc.html Listen to more Christian/non-Christian debates at www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or via podcast or itunes If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 29 Aug 2009 - Richard Bauckham on the Gospels - pt 1: Richard Bauckham and James Crossley Unbelievable? 24 Jan 2009 - How did Christianity begin?" Pt 2 - James Crossley & Michael Bird Join the discussion at the Premier Community

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1:12.0	You're unbelievable. Well for many years critics of Christianity
1:16.4	have suggested that belief in Jesus' divinity and the worship of him
1:20.4	must have been a late development in the Christian faith. It's simply inconsistent
1:25.9	they say with Jewish monotheism that the church was born into. So did the idea of Jesus'
1:31.8	divinity develop late, but was it there from the very beginning?
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