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Today is April 11, Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent.
At today’s Mass, we hear: “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God” (Jn 10:33).
The Jewish leaders are fine with the good things that Jesus does, but Jesus is crossing the line with who he claims to be. He says that he is God, a threat to their own ideas of who God should be. The Jewish leaders’ reaction to Jesus’s claim to divinity highlights the radicality of the central truth we believe as Christians: Jesus Christ is God.
No other religion claims such a truth for a man. To say that the Creator enters his creation, that the eternal being enters time, that the supreme being takes on finite human flesh, that God becomes man is insanity — if you’re thinking as humans do. But God does not think as men do: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways” (Is 8:5). God chose to become one of us, show his love for us on the cross and rise triumphant from the tomb.
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At today’s Mass, we hear: “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God” (Jn 10:33).
The Jewish leaders are fine with the good things that Jesus does, but Jesus is crossing the line with who he claims to be. He says that he is God, a threat to their own ideas of who God should be. The Jewish leaders’ reaction to Jesus’s claim to divinity highlights the radicality of the central truth we believe as Christians: Jesus Christ is God.
No other religion claims such a truth for a man. To say that the Creator enters his creation, that the eternal being enters time, that the supreme being takes on finite human flesh, that God becomes man is insanity — if you’re thinking as humans do. But God does not think as men do: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways” (Is 8:5). God chose to become one of us, show his love for us on the cross and rise triumphant from the tomb.
Jesus’ divinity
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The God-man, Jesus Christ
Jesus' claim to divinity highlights the central truth of Christianity: he is God, and we're offered salvation through his resurrection.
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