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  2. Christianity and other religions - Wikipedia

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    However, while Islam relegates the man Jesus the Christ to a lesser status than God — "in the company of those nearest to God" in the Qur'an, mainstream (Trinitarian) Christianity since the Council of Nicea teaches without question the belief that Jesus is both fully man and fully God the Son, one of the three Hypostases (common English ...

  3. Divine filiation - Wikipedia

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    The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God."[St. Irenaeus] "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God."[St ...

  4. Religious perspectives on Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The religious perspectives on Jesus vary among world religions. [1] Jesus ' teachings and the retelling of his life story have significantly influenced the course of human history , and have directly or indirectly affected the lives of billions of people, including non-Christians.

  5. Abrahamic religions - Wikipedia

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    All Abrahamic religions claim to be monotheistic, worshiping an exclusive God, although one who is known by different names. [52] [page needed] Each of these religions preaches that God creates, is one, rules, reveals, loves, judges, punishes, and forgives. [25]

  6. Divinization (Christian) - Wikipedia

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    "[T]he Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God." [Primary 4] "For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God" [Primary 5] "[H]is is beauty, the true beauty, for it is God; and that man becomes God, since God so wills.

  7. Chosen people - Wikipedia

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    In Judaism, "chosenness" is the belief that the Jews, via descent from the ancient Israelites, are the chosen people, i.e., chosen to be in a covenant with God.The idea of the Israelites being chosen by God is found most directly in the Book of Deuteronomy, [4] where it is applied to Israel at Mount Sinai upon the condition of their acceptance of the Mosaic covenant between themselves and God.

  8. Son of God (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    In Isaiah 9:6, the next king is greeted, similarly to the passages in Psalms.Like Psalm 45:7–8 he is figuratively likened to the supreme king God. [4]: 150 [18] Isaiah could also be interpreted as the birth of a royal child, Psalm 2 nevertheless leaves the accession scenario as an attractive possibility.

  9. God in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Christian teachings on the transcendence, immanence, and involvement of God in the world and his love for humanity exclude the belief that God is of the same substance as the created universe (rejection of pantheism) but accept that God the Son assumed hypostatically united human nature, thus becoming man in a unique event known as "the ...