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How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus’ Divine Nature—A Response to Bart Ehrman is unavailable, but you can change that!

In his recent book How Jesus Became God, biblical critic Bart Ehrman argues that the earliest disciples did not believe Jesus was God, and that Jesus did not claim this about himself. In How God Became Jesus, Michael F. Bird, Craig A. Evans, and other top scholars respond to this latest challenge to orthodox Christianity. Subjecting Ehrman’s claims to critical scrutiny, they offer a historically...

Okay, back to our question: Did Jesus think he was God? Well, to begin with, there is no reason to see Jesus as anything other than a good monotheist. Jesus proclaimed the kingdom of God (Mark 1:14–15), he prayed to God as Father (Mark 14:36; Matt 6:9–13/Luke 11:1–4; John 11:41–42), he affirmed the Jewish confession of God’s oneness, the Shema (Deut 6:4; Mark 12:29–30), and he called for steadfast devotion to God (Matt 6:24/Luke 16:13).
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