* Because Jesus and the Father are both one and distinct, we can say that God ‘sent his son into the world’ - (John 3:16), and also that Jesus came into the world (1 Tim 1:15) - we are speaking about essentially the same action on the part of God, but on the one hand, God the Father sends, on the other, God the Son comes.

Jesus also accepted worship as God, an implicit claim to divinity. After his resurrection, he showed himself to a disciple called Thomas, who exclaimed"My Lord and my God” , which Jesus accepted (John 10:24-29). Thomas’ reaction is typical of the early church’s understanding of who Jesus claimed to be.

The Jews wanted to stone Jesus because he ‘being a man’, claimed he was God (John 10:33). Jesus doesn’t dispute that he is a man, and both he and the Jews are talking about God as a third party. He says he is the Son of this God, they say that’s blasphemy. Jesus has just said, ‘I and the Father are one’ (in John 10:30).

But with the coming of Jesus, this forced Christians to extend their thinking on just what God was like. In the New Testament, Jesus made it clear that not only was he the son of the Father [John 8:42 & 14:9], but he was also God, right from the beginning [John 1:1-3 & 1:14]. The HS becomes significantly more prominent in the New Testament as well.

However the nature of the oneness of God shifted radically with the coming of Jesus. As the Son of God, Jesus taught his disciples that he and his Father were one [John 10:30, 17:11]. In addition, Jesus teaching about himself and the Holy Spirit [John 14:26; 15:26] demonstrated that God is one God, but three different persons - Father, Son and ...

God sent Jesus to show the world that even though we don’t want a relationship with God, he still wants a relationship with us. Even though we deserve God’s punishment, Jesus died to save us and bring us back to God. This is what Jesus says about his death, ‘And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself’.

Jesus is God the Father’s only Son, and he sent him to die to save us from the penalty of sin (and from the power of sin). That shows how seriously God takes sin. And it shows us how much he loves us. Romans chapter 5 verse 8:“God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

After all God is the one whose responsibility it is to convert them. So ask him for the right words to say and ask him to call the other person to himself. Know the gospel. Peter calls us to “be prepared to give an answer to anyone who asks us to give the reason for the hope we have in heaven”. (1 Peter 3:15).

Yet ultimately the Christian witness is that Jesus came to earth as God in the flesh (Philippians 2:5-11) in order to reconcile humanity to himself (Colossians 1:15-20). Hence the reason that Jesus is able to perform miracles is that he is God.

We also go against God’s goodness and live selfish lives. Because of this God will judge everyone as guilty. For no one has ever lived their life without rejecting God, except Jesus, Romans 3:10-12. In the end all people are judged to be going to …