In the centuries-old controversy over the person of Jesus, the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) marked a significant milepost. Essentially, it agreed a...

When we imagine the huge difference between God and ourselves, it is astounding to think that God would reach out to us by condescending to take on hu...

Why did God need to come into the world in human flesh? The question is important. But we should wean ourselves away from purely rational answers to i...

Many of His contemporaries considered Jesus an unusual person, yet they each knew Him to be a human being, a man. When the Samaritan woman rushed to h...

As Christianity spread through the Greco-Roman world and moved into the second generation, people began to reflect on its basic message about Jesus’ p...

Last week’s lesson spoke about the mystery of Christ’s deity. But as we contemplate His humanity, we stand also in the presence of a profound mystery....

Memory Text: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14, NIV). In the New Testament, without any rationalistic explanations wha...

Further Study: On the issue of Jesus’ identity, read Ellen G. White, “Is Not This the Carpenter’s Son?” pp. 236–243, in The Desire of Ages. “Who is th...

Messiah, Son of God (John 17:3) Who Jesus was is not simply a theological proposition to be proved or disproved. No, we are dealing here with the fait...