Who is Jesus?

Jesus Christ is God.¹ God exists in a Trin­ity, three per­sons: the Father,² the Son,³ and the Holy Spirit.⁴ Jesus is the sec­ond per­son of that Trin­ity; He is God the Son (or the Son of God⁵). God the Father sent God the Son to become a human being by adding human­ity to Him­self, remain­ing fully God and becom­ing fully man.⁶ Because man is evil and deserv­ing God’s wrath,⁷ Jesus came and lived a per­fect life as a human.⁸ He then died for our sins to save us from God’s wrath and our sin.⁹ Three days after dying, He rose from the grave and now pleads on our behalf before the Father.¹⁰

Jesus Christ is the only way that we can know God;¹¹ we couldn’t get to God because He’s holy,¹² so He became like us.¹³ Jesus is the per­fect prophet who reveals God to us fully,¹⁴ the per­fect priest who offers Him­self as a sac­ri­fice for our sins and inter­cedes on our behalf,¹⁵ and the per­fect King who rules and reigns over all of cre­ation.¹⁶ He offers for­give­ness of sins¹⁷, sal­va­tion from hell¹⁸, free­dom from sin,¹⁹ and a restored rela­tion­ship with God²⁰ to those who will believe that He is the only way to ever have any of those things.²¹

If you want to learn more about Jesus, I’d sug­gest you try read­ing the Gospel of Mark. It’s a short book and really good for get­ting started. Addi­tion­ally, I write a lot about Jesus on this blog.