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THEO201 Notes 3.25.2020  Jesus was 5’5, partially illiterate, bilingual, and not all-knowing  The “quests” for the historical Jesus have complicated the question of Jesus’s divinity  First quest (1800-1900): Sensationalized and selective (NT not reliable – Jesus failed revolutionary); highly skeptical in how NT should be approached  No quest (1900-1950): Jesus of history vs. Christ of faith (Bultmann)  Second quest (1950-1980): Criteria of authenticity and emphasis on dissimilarity (skeptical); dissimilarity talks about Jesus saying things Jews didn’t say and Christians didn’t later say  Third quest (1980’s-present): rooted in history and culture (recovering the Jewish Jesus)  Big flaw of first and second quests are that they are very extreme  Jesus came as a human, an Isrealite  Jesus was plan A  The gospels present a multi-layered portrait of Jesus  The “Gospel” message is bigger than Jesus’s death for personal salvation  2 facets of Old Testament “gospel”: kingdom victory and Isaiah 61  Creation -> fall (heavenly and earthly) -> covenants (Abrahamic/mosaic/Davidic/new) -> Jesus and kingdom -> new creation  Jesus inaugurates the kingdom of God  Jesus inaugurates the restoration of creation  Jesus restores humanity to its vocation (telos) to worship and serve God by governing His good world  This good news creates an invitation to humanity to see Jesus as the rightful king of creation, and to swear faithful allegiance to Him as ruler of creation  Faith is “the initial and ongoing response of trust in, and obedience to, Christ” (McKnight). It is “allegiance to Jesus as King” (Bates).  How does the New Testament portray Jesus as divine?  Strongest indicators of Jesus’s divinity: o Forgiving sins (Mark 2:5) o Jesus sent “from God” o Jesus as “Lord of Sabbath” (Mark 2:27-28) o Son of Man coming on the clouds (mark 14:61-64, Daniel 7)...