Who is Jesus?

Jesus Christ is the central figure of the most wide-spread religion of the past two thousand years and his life, death, and resurrection represent for Christians God's saving act for sinful humanity.

His name (Jesus) and his title (Christ) bear witness to that saving act. The name "Jesus" is derived from the Greek form of the Hebrew word "Joshua" that means "savior" (Matt 1:21), and the title "Christ" (Heb, "Messiah") means "anointed", and refers to one commissioned by God for a special task. Surely Jesus Christ is the greatest of all men, but he is infinitely more than mere man.

The scriptures clearly teach that Jesus Christ possesses both a divine nature and a human nature, each unaltered in essence and undivested of its normal attributes and powers, they with equal distinctness represent Jesus Christ as a single, undivided personality in whom these two natures are vitally and inseparably united, so that He is properly not God-and-man, but the God-man.

Jesus Christ possesses five attributes which are uniquely and distinctly divine: eternity, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, and immutability. He is eternal. He was not only before John (John 1: 15), before Abraham (John 8:58), and before the world came into being (John 17: 5, 24), but he is "the firstborn of all creation" (Colossians 1: 15), being in existence "in the beginning" (John 1:1; cf. 1 John 1: 1), and, in fact, "from the days of eternity: (Micah 5: 2).

Christ is the Savior of the world, our mediator and the founder of the Church.

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