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Was Jesus God?

  • Paperback
  • 186 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 13.8 x 21.5 x 1.1 cm

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For seekers wanting clarity on Jesus' divine nature

Addresses doubts about Jesus' divinity and purpose

You will strengthen your faith with compelling insights

This book explores the probability of Jesus being God through logical arguments and historical evidence.

The orderliness of the universe and the existence of human beings already provides some reason for believing that there is a God - as argued in Richard Swinburne's earlier book Is There a God ? Swinburne now claims that it is probable that the main Christian doctrines about the nature of God and his actions in the world are true. In virtue of his omnipotence and perfect goodness, God must be a Trinity, live a human life in order to share our suffering, and found a church which would enable him to tell all humans about this. It is also quite probable that he would provide his human life as an atonement for our wrongdoing, teach us how we should live and tell us his plans for our future after death. Among founders of religions, Jesus satisfies uniquely well the requirement of living the sort of human life which God would need to have lived. But to give us adequate reason to believe that Jesus was God, God would need to put his 'signature' on the life of Jesus by an act which he alone could do, for example raise him from the dead. There is adequate historical evidence that Jesus rose from the dead. The church which he founded gave plausible interpretations of his basic message.Therefore Christian doctrines are probably true.
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  • Title

    Was Jesus God?

  • Author

    Richard Swinburne

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    January 2010

  • Weight

    237g

  • Page Count

    186

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 21.5 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199580446

  • ISBN-10

    0199580448

  • Eden Code

    3784069

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