by Patricia Skinner

Created on: November 24, 2009   Last Updated: November 25, 2009

Who is Jesus Christ?

Some say he is just a good man who lived two centuries ago. Others say he is God, and there are those who say he is the Son of God. So just who is he?

We need to know who he is before we can manifest any kind of belief in him. It is very easy to say, yes, I know Jesus Christ, I believe in Jesus, Jesus is my saviour. To find out who he is, is very simple. Read the Bible. The four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John give us insight as to his life on earth during the 1st Century, but do they tell us what kind of man he was? Yes. The apostle John wrote at John 17 v 3, This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ. Therefore, we need to take in the knowledge not only of Jesus, but of the True God.

So who is Jesus Christ? It was by means of God's holy spirit that made the birth possible, Jesus owed his human life to his heavenly Father, not to any man, such as his adoptive father Joseph. (Mt 2:13-15; Lu 3:23) As Hebrews 10:5 states, Jehovah God 'prepared a body for him,' and Jesus, from conception onward, was truly undefiled, separated from the sinners. Hebrews 7 v 26.

The prophecy at Isaiah 52:14, speaks of the disfigurement as respects his appearance, however, he was perfect physically, therefore this must apply to Jesus the Messiah in a figurative way. It was his message of truth and righteousness that made him repulsive in the eyes of those hypocritical religious leaders, who claimed to see him as an agent of Beelzebub, a man possessed of a demon, a blasphemous fraud. In a similar way the message proclaimed by Jesus' disciples later caused them to be a sweet odor of life to receptive persons, but an odor of death to those who rejected their message. - 2Co 2:14-16.

There is not much known of Jesus' early life. Born in Bethlehem in Judea, King David's native city, he was taken to Nazareth in Galilee after the family returned from Egypt - all of this in fulfillment of prophecy. (Mt 2:4-6, 14, 15, 19-23; Micah 5:2; Ho 11:1; Isa 11:1; Jer 23:5) Jesus' adoptive father, Joseph, was a carpenter (Mt 13:55) and evidently of little means.Thus Jesus, who on his first day of human life had slept in a stable, evidently spent his childhood in quite humble circumstances.

There is nothing to indicate that Jesus had or exercised any miraculous powers during his childhood years. The changing of water into wine at Cana, was the beginning of his signs. (Joh 2:1-11)

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