Explore Session 2Poached egg or devil from Hell? – exploring who Jesus is

Part 1 Who do they say I am?

Who is Jesus?

Who is Jesus?• God / Son of God

(understood literally, mythically or metaphorically)

• second Person of Trinity

• pre-existent ‘Logos’ (wisdom figure)

• Lord of cosmos• saviour

kingJewish prophetSpirit-possessed

healerpreacher / TeacherZealotmagicianwise man/ Sage

Who is Jesus?• champion of the

oppressed• son of a virginson of Joseph• illegitimate son of a

peasant girl• a swear word

• rabbi• Galilean charismatic• philosopher• revolutionary peasant• deluded misfit• superstar (thanks to

Andrew Lloyd Webber)

• liberator

Who is Jesus?“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

C. S Lewis 1898 - 1963

Who is Jesus?•Is Jesus God?

•If Jesus IS God, •what does that mean for us?

Who does the Bible say Jesus was?PART TWO

Who is Jesus?• Singing hymns about and to Jesus• Prayer to Jesus and in his name• Ritual use of Jesus’ name in public rituals

of worship such as baptisms, etc.• Participation in the corporate sacred

meal, “the Lord’s Supper”; • Ritual “confession”...of Jesus as lord• Prophecy uttered in Jesus’ name

Larry Hurtado

Who is Jesus?

PART THREE

Who is Jesus?

PART FOUR

“The most human human being …”

• What does it mean to be human?• How human was Jesus?• How can Jesus’ humanity help us?

How was Jesus Human?

intellect workphysique

lifestyle sexuality

moralityemotions