Name: Was Jesus God?
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Author: Richard Swinburne
ISBN: 9780199580446

The orderliness of the universe and the existence of human beings already provides some reason for believing that there is a God - as argued in Richard Swinburne's earlier book Is There a God ? Swinburne now claims that it is probable that the main Christian doctrines about the nature of God and his actions in the world are true. In virtue of his omnipotence and perfect goodness, God must be a Trinity, live a human life in order to share our suffering, and found a church which would enable him to tell all humans about this. It is also quite probable that he would provide his human life as an atonement for our wrongdoing, teach us how we should live and tell us his plans for our future after death. Among founders of religions, Jesus satisfies uniquely well the requirement of living the sort of human life which God would need to have lived. But to give us adequate reason to believe that Jesus was God, God would need to put his 'signature' on the life of Jesus by an act which he alone could do, for example raise him from the dead. There is adequate historical evidence that Jesus rose from the dead. The church which he founded gave plausible interpretations of his basic message.Therefore Christian doctrines are probably true.

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Was Jesus God? has been written to be read in tandem with, or as a follow on to, Swinburne’s earlier, and just revised, work: Is There A God?. It is designed to take the argument further than that: if it can be philosophically proved that there is indeed a strong probability that God exists, then can the Bible’s accounts of Jesus be coherently argued to confirm that Jesus’, and the early church’s, claims that he was indeed God incarnate? Swinburne, a highly respected philosopher, has written many books on the philosophy of religious belief. His books may be unfamiliar to many Christian readers and his style a real challenge to follow but this is a title that can be recommended to any serious reader who wants another viewpoint of the validity of their Christian faith. Many would consider Swinburne to be on the liberal end of the spectrum who has not developed a philosophical understanding and explanation of the miracles etc but this book is still excellent reading for most serious readers including those with a more evangelical or fundamentalist viewpoint.

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