In How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman explores how a Jewish preacher from Galilee was transformed into a deity. "Jesus himself didn't call himself God and didn't consider himself God," Ehrman says.

Read an excerpt from How Jesus Became God. In this book I have tried to approach this question in a way that will be useful not only for secular historians of religion like me, but also for ...

Msgr. Joseph Prior unpacks the classic story of the Good Samaritan that Jesus tells in this Sunday’s Gospel. We hear the Lord speaking to our hearts and inviting us to open our minds to our neighbors, ...

God’s grace in Christ calls us to live godly lives. True faith obeys the gospel, not just receives it. Grace leads to action, ...

The most important commandment in the Gospel is to love God and love those around you.

But Jesus is God-man, not God-Superman. He became one of us not to shame us for our doubts but to teach us how to doubt well, to doubt faithfully. And so we are somehow saved too by his doubts.

Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among ...

Jesus is not claiming to be God the Father here, obviously (since when he’s praying, he is not talking to himself ). So he is not saying that he is identical with God.

Jesus, as the human face of God, is how God the father presented himself "in a manner we can fall in love with," said Fr. Paternostro of Missouri.

Create an account or log in to save stories. "If Jesus had not been declared God by his followers, his followers would'™ve remained a sect within Judaism, a small Jewish sect," says historian ...