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What is the significance of Jesus Christ’s claim to be God?
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For me the significance of Jesus Christ’s claim to be God is really the beginning of understanding his love for us. Here we find a “man” claiming to be God and we have to ask ourselves if he is God there must have been a choice along the way that He made to come and dwell among us. It shows his deep love for us. That he would become both God and Man and be susceptible to all the things we as humans are. I don’t know but this life is hard and I often wonder man if I would have known how hard it was going to be before I was sent to my mothers womb would I have chosen this for myself? I don’t think I would. I would just say in the presence of my father. But he knew. Yet he still chose to come and live among us fully God and fully man. It significant because he loved us even while we were yet sinners. He didn’t have to do what he did for us.
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The significance of Jesus Christ’s claim to be God shows God’s power and love to save the world. I am so glad God came in the form of flesh to experience humanity and pay the price of our sins. He also reestablished our access to God and created a way for us to become what God created us to be. When I think about God, his holiness, coming down to earth as a servant, his love is so deep it’s hard to comprehend.
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For the simple fact that if He were not God, none of our sins would be forgiven and our lives would be lost forever. As the God-man, Jesus took all our sins to the cross and opened a path for us to have a personal connection with God ourselves. We do not need to go through a priest for that, we can do it ourselves.
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The significance is that we should realize that Jesus being God has the same power and traits. It means that we owe Him the same reverence as God the Father. It means that we owe Him the same love, the same respect, the same adoration. We can trust Jesus as our Lord. He is just as Mighty. And Powerful.
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If he was, then we should give special credence to whatever he said.