If Jesus had not been God, the Jewish leaders of his day would have been right to put Him to death. Not only did He claim to be God, He forgave others’ sins, which only God could do and only through the sacrificial system. He claimed to be the fulfillment of the Temple, the true center of worship. And not only did He touch those who were ceremonially unclean - lepers, the woman with the flow of blood, the dead - His touch made them clean and restored them to fellowship with God.
The shock of redemption
The shock of redemption
The shock of redemption
If Jesus had not been God, the Jewish leaders of his day would have been right to put Him to death. Not only did He claim to be God, He forgave others’ sins, which only God could do and only through the sacrificial system. He claimed to be the fulfillment of the Temple, the true center of worship. And not only did He touch those who were ceremonially unclean - lepers, the woman with the flow of blood, the dead - His touch made them clean and restored them to fellowship with God.