 I have to believe that Jesus is God to be a Christian, right? No, a lot of scholars think that Jesus didn't ever teach that about himself. Instead, he talked about how to make the world a better place, and then his disciples, like, forgot all that and just talked about him. Wait, wait, wait. I don't mean to interrupt, but what about when Jesus said, I and the Father are one? Or what about when he said, before Abraham was, I am? Or what about Thomas after seeing the evidence of Jesus' crucifixion said, my Lord and my God? If Jesus was just a man, then his death meant nothing, and that means we are still guilty before God bearing the weight of our own sins. But the good news is that he did come to this earth fully God and fully man without sin to live the sinless life that we couldn't live and to die on the cross, the death we deserve to die for our sins against God. And what he calls us to today is to repentance and faith, to lay down our sins at the cross, to ask for forgiveness and put our faith in him for salvation.