Cumulative Case that Jesus Is God (Apologetics Part 11)

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Anybody can claim to be God, but how do we know Jesus really was God? One of the ways we can know this, of course, is that He did miracles. That is probably the strongest piece of evidence we have for claiming that Jesus is God, but there are other pieces of evidence that can support this conclusion. Jesus is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, moral teachers. According to the historical sources we have about Him, Jesus seems to have lived up to the moral standards He taught. Jesus is one of the most, if not the most, influential persons in all of world history, and He accomplished this by merely being a poor, itinerant teacher for three years. Jesus also fulfilled many prophecies about a coming Messiah which we can confirm were written hundreds of years before He lived. Two of the most outstanding of these are the Messianic prophecies from Daniel 9 and Isaiah 53. Finally, Jesus was resurrected from the dead. Paul says that our entire Christian faith depends on Jesus’ resurrection. It is the key miracle which validates Jesus’ claim to be God. One of the ways to demonstrate Jesus’ resurrection is to use the “Minimal Facts Argument,” which puts forward Jesus’ resurrection as the best explanation of the well-attested historical facts about Jesus that many critical scholars affirm.

Watch the videos about the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection from Reasonable Faith here:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qhQRMhUK1o
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SbJ4p6WiZE

Read "Seventy Weeks of Years" by Adam Lloyd Johnson for more details on how Jesus fulfills the prophecies of Daniel chapter 9 here: https://convincingproof.org/seventy-weeks-of-years/

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