ContradictionsReading order 38Bible context 9 min read
Is Jesus God?
Texts identifying Jesus with God coexist with accounts of his temptation, dependence, and subordination to God.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Direct divine identifications conflict substantially with Jesus' susceptibility to temptation and subordination, without a supplied account reconciling those attributes.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Jesus receives divine identity and authority
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:John 1
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:John 1