Jesus' Divinity

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“What is Divinity? “Divinity is the attribute of being divine. In an absolute sense only the infinite God is divine. But the term is sometimes loosely applied to others than God, either mistakenly or because of some relationship they have to God. (Etym. Latin divinus, belonging to God.)”( catholicreference.net) “Over the centuries many people from all over the world have question Jesus’ divinity. Some of them have asked and still are asking questions like; “Is Jesus God?” or “Is Jesus and God two different people?” Because of one’s faith and the teachings and traditions of the religion they believe in find it extremely hard to understanding that Jesus’ is God. The Trinity tell us that there are three persons in one body; the father, son and the Holy Spirit. Meaning that the father which is referring to God, the son which is referring to Jesus and the Holy Spirit referring to itself. “Jesus says. ‘I came that they life, and have it more abundantly.”(Jn 10:10), he is speaking of divine life, that gift of God which allows us to share in the very life of Christ. The divine life makes us divine in the sense that we share God’s life. It does not make us divine in the sense that we become God or ‘part God’. Such an idea would be absurd. Even in heaven, seeing and loving God face to face, we shall never lose our identities, our individuality, and our complete dependence on God. When, in the fullness of time,” God sent the long promised Redeemer, he sent not merely a human empowered to teach and act in his name, but his only-begotten Son. Jesus Christ is no mere human; he is God-become-human that he might be the mediator between God and us. Jesus Christ expressed the threefold office he holds as the God-Man in these words, “I am the way and the truth and the life---Jn 14:6. Jesus is the life, our priest who redeemed us by his death on the cross who shares with us his divine
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