The true nature of Jesus Christ

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: Throughout history, false groups and sects have tried to question the deity of Jesus Christ in an attempt to lower His status and importance in the Christian faith. The Bible defends and emphasizes the deity and glory of Jesus in many passages, including Colossians 1:15-20 where Paul declares Jesus to be the very image of the invisible God. It is important to never give in to erroneous teachings that deny the deity of Jesus and to understand the power and lordship that comes with believing in Him. Only a being who is God himself could do all the things that we depend on Jesus to do.

Many false groups, many false sects through the centuries - even Christian sects - have tried to question the deity of Jesus. One of the things that the enemy will always try to do is lower the status, the stature of Jesus because Satan knows that if he succeeds in overthrowing Jesus from his central position in the Christian faith he will be dealing a mortal blow to our faith.

So we see many times that false groups through the centuries have tried to lower the stature of Jesus and that is why the Bible is so insistent over and over again in presenting that true nature, that deity of Jesus Christ. We see that in the first century the Christian Church fought to the death with a heresy called Gnosticism that again tried to present Jesus Christ as simply a lesser being, as one of many different gods that existed in creation and that also dealt with putting in a lot of rituals and teachings, taking care of holidays and meals, and not getting married and getting into a lot of speculation about gods that were in the upper atmosphere and a lot of things that took Jesus away from His true importance and His deity.

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