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Study Section 7: Questions about Jesus Christ

7.1 Connect

Do you remember reading about the disciples being with Jesus 40 days after the
resurrection? (Acts 1:6-11) He was standing on the top of Mt. Olivet near Jerusalem and
suddenly He started levitating toward the sky. The disciples were speechless as he rose into
the clouds. Two men in white robes, most likely angels, addressed them. “Why are you
staring into heaven? Jesus is now going into heaven, but someday in the future He will
return exactly as you have seen Him go into heaven.”

The method of Jesus’s departure demonstrated two major doctrines of our belief: Jesus is God for only
God can fly and Jesus is coming again from the clouds the same way He left into the clouds. Skeptics
reading this story deny its voracity, because they do not believe Jesus is God. Today we will look at His
claims to be God.

7.2 Objectives

1. The student will be able to define and explain the Law of Contradiction and how this law is
applied to Jesus’s statement that He was the only way to God.

2. The student should be able to answer the four false claims about who Jesus was.

3. The student should be able to give evidence both from non-Biblical sources, but also from the Bible
that Jesus lived and claimed to be deity.

7.3 Who is the Real Jesus? Is Jesus really God? Did He ever claim to be God?

The person of Jesus is the most central aspect of the Christian faith. Without Jesus, there
would be no salvation. Without Jesus, there is no way to God. Jesus is the way and the truth -
and the only way and the only truth.

Because of this, the person of Jesus is one of the most disputed issues when it comes to
matters of faith, beliefs, and religion. The Bible describes very clearly who He is, what He has
said and done, and most of all His atoning death on the cross. Jesus said, “I am the way and the
truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6) He claimed to be the way
of salvation to all men.

This is what makes true Christianity so narrow-minded in the eyes of the world. People who are not
Christians quite often make these statements:

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