The document discusses key topics about God and Jesus Christ, including: - God is defined as the supreme being who is to be worshipped and served. - Jesus Christ is the central figure of Christianity, believed to be both fully divine and fully human. He lived to fulfill God's plan and save humanity from sin. - Key events in Jesus's life included his birth, ministry of teaching and performing miracles, passion and death, and resurrection. Jesus established the Church and still influences billions as one of the most important figures in history.

1. LET’S RECAP WHAT
WE HEARD IN THE
LAST SESSION

3. Who is God?
Who is Jesus Christ?

4. Why don’t people believe in God?
• Atheists (Gr: “Godlessness)
• Agnostics (Gr: “not knowing”)
• Lack of scientific evidence for God’s existence
• Bad experience with person or persons who are
religious
• Guilt
• The existence of evil and suffering in the world
• The terrible things done in the name of God &
religion
• A rebellion against authority
• The inability of religion to “keep up with the times”
• Convenience

5. THERE IS ONE GOD

6. GOD – A DEFINITION
• The supreme being who is to be worshipped
and served and who, in the monotheistic
tradition, is acknowledged as unique: the
personal, eternal, immutable, all-knowing and
all-powerful creator.
A Concise Dictionary of Theology

7. What is your image of God?

8. What are some of God’s
characteristics?
• God is a mystery (Incomprehensible)
• God is triune; trinitarian
• God is a personal being. (Not an impersonal
force.)
• God is immaterial, omnipresent (present
everywhere), omnipotent (all powerful),
omniscient (all-knowing), omnibenevolent (all
goodness), immutable (unchanging), sovereign
(supreme in authority).
• God is eternal, infinite (without beginning or
end)
• God is perfect

9. GOD IS TRUTH
• God is TRUTH itself,
whose words cannot
deceive. This is why one
can abandon oneself in
full trust to the truth and
faithfulness of God’s
word in all things.
• God is truthful when God
reveals himself.

10. “GOD IS LOVE” 1 Jn. 4:16
• God is love. God’s
very being is love.
• God created us out of
love. God’s single
motive is love.
• We are called to be
like God in loving God
and our fellow human
beings.

11. God and Us
• We are created by God
• We are created in God’s own image and
likeness
• Every human being possesses a spiritual soul,
intellect and free will
• Every human being is destined for God and
for eternal life.

12. God is always with us.
For he himself has said ‘I will never leave you or forsake
you.’
Hebrews 13:5.
God is our protector.
“Our soul waits for the Lord. He is our help and our
shield.” Psalm 33:20
God knows us, better than we know ourselves.
“O Lord you have searched me and known me. You
know when I sit down and rise up. You discern my
thoughts from far away.” Psalm 139: 1,2.

13. God never changes.
"I the Lord do not change” Malachi 3:6.
God is faithful.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not
unto your own understanding. In all your ways
acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.”
Proverbs 3: 5 – 6
God is in charge.
For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord,
plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future
and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

14. Sharing by Facilitators

15. God’s perfect plan…
• To fulfil God’s perfect
plan God made man.
• To restore God’s perfect
plan God became man.

16. Jesus Christ
• Jesus Christ is the central figure of
Christianity.
• Not only do we not know God
except through Jesus Christ; we do
not even know ourselves except
through Jesus Christ.” Blaise Pascal.
• “For God so loved the world that he
gave his only son, so that everyone
who believes in him may not perish
but may have eternal life.
Indeed, God did not send the Son
into the world to condemn the
world but in order that the world
might be saved through him.”
(John 3:16 – 17)

17. How? The Incarnation
• Incarnation: (carnus
Lat = flesh)
“Enfleshing”
“embodying in flesh”
• The belief that for the
salvation of the world,
the Son of God, while
remaining fully divine,
became truly and fully
human, like us in all
things but sin.

18. • In order to save us by
reconciling us with God
• So that we might know God’s
love
“In this is love, not that we
loved God but that He loved
us and sent His Son to be the
atoning sacrifice for our
sins.” 1John 4:10.
• So that we might learn how
to live as God wants us to
live with Jesus as our model
• So that by sharing in our
humanity He might make us
sharers in his Divinity
Why?
CCC 456 – 460

19. Names
• Jesus Heb Jeshua “God
Saves”
• Messiah Heb Mashiach
“Anointed one”
• Christ Gk. Christos
“Anointed one”
• Lord Gk. Kyrios Title of
power and authority

20. Jesus Christ
• Jesus is the Son of God.
Because Jesus is God and came
among us as a human being, we then
state that Jesus is fully divine and
fully human.
• In other words, Christians believe
that Jesus is both God and man at
the same time.
Christ had two distinct natures:
humanity and divinity.
There was no mixture or intermingling
or confusion of the two natures
Although He had two natures, Christ
was one Person

21. Jesus Christ
Though there have
been many great
teachers throughout
history, none of
them have claimed
to be divine (God) as
Jesus claimed.

22. Capernaum
Nazareth
Jerusalem
Bethlehem

23. Birth

24. Childhood

25. Public Ministry (Age: 30 – 33)

26. Public Ministry - Teaching

27. Public Ministry: Signs & Wonders

28. The Passion (Suffering) and Death of
Jesus

29. Jesus Rises from the Dead

30. Jesus Today
• Two thousand years after he walked the earth,
Jesus of Nazareth remains one of those most
talked-about and influential people who has
ever lived.
• He has more than 2 billion followers in the
world today of whom more than 50% are
Catholic.
• People from all walks of life have studied his
life, character and teachings. He has been
quoted, misquoted, honoured and insulted,
worshipped and argued over.
• Most of all, He is loved.

31. His Legacy
• We, His Church, are the face of Jesus in the world today.
• It is how we as Christians live our lives as followers of
Jesus who make His presence real amidst the joys and the
sorrows of our days and times.
• “I will be with you until the end of time.”

32. • And so,
the
question
now is
“Who is
Jesus
Christ to
me?”

33. Jesus taught us to pray…
Our Father, who art in
heaven,
Hallowed be thy name,
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will
be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily
bread,
And forgive us our
trespasses,
As we forgive those who
trespass against us.
And lead us not into
temptation,
But deliver us from evil,
Amen.