Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God who became truly human. Christians confess him as fully God and fully human—not a man who eventually became God, and not God merely appearing to be human.
The New Testament presents Jesus as much more than a prophet or moral teacher. John identifies the eternal Word as God and says that the Word became flesh. Jesus speaks and acts with divine authority, forgives sins, receives worship, and makes the Father known. After encountering the risen Jesus, Thomas addresses him as his Lord and God.
At the same time, Jesus’ humanity is real. He grew, experienced hunger and weariness, grieved, suffered, and died. The person living this genuinely human life is the eternal Son. In becoming human, he did not cease to be God.
Christians believe this because of the cumulative witness of Scripture: who Jesus claims to be, what he does, how his earliest followers describe him, and his resurrection from the dead.
This does not mean that Jesus is the Father. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct persons, yet there is one God. Jesus brings us to the Father and gives us the Spirit so that we may share in the life and fellowship his saving work opens to us.
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