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The Catholic Defender: Jesus Christ is 100% God and 100% Man


Glory be to the Father, Who by His almighty power and love created me, making me in the image and likeness of God.


Glory be to the Son, Who by His Precious Blood delivered me from hell, and opened for me the gates of heaven.


Glory be to the Holy Spirit, Who has sanctified me in the sacrament of Baptism, and continues to sanctify me by the graces I receive daily from His bounty.


Glory be to the Three adorable Persons of the Holy Trinity, now and forever. Amen.






Jesus' sole claim to be fully God and fully man is stated most plainly in the Gospel of John: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).


The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the "hierarchy of the truths of faith".


The dogma of the Holy Trinity 253 The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the “consubstantial Trinity.”


Catholics believe in one single God, who made himself known to the world (revelation) as three separate persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit. This is known as the doctrine of the Trinity, and is a fundamental belief for all Catholics.


St. Gregory of Nazianzus, also called "the Theologian", entrusts this summary of Trinitarian faith to the catechumens of Constantinople:


Above all guard for me this great deposit of faith for which I live and fight, which I want to take with me as a companion, and which makes me bear all evils and despise all pleasures:


I mean the profession of faith in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.


I entrust it to you today. By it I am soon going to plunge you into water and raise you up from it. I give it to you as the companion and patron of your whole life. I give you but one divinity and power, existing one in three, and containing the three in a distinct way.


Divinity without disparity of substance or nature, without superior degree that raises up or inferior degree that casts down. . . the infinite co-naturality of three infinites.


Each person considered in himself is entirely God. . . the three considered together. . . I have not even begun to think of unity when the Trinity bathes me in its splendour. I have not even begun to think of the Trinity when unity grasps me.


Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” John 20:28


 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.


Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great:


He appeared in the flesh,    was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels,  was preached among the nations,was believed on in the world,    was taken up in glory. 1 Timothy 3:16


The Bible says that God is Judge (1 Samuel:10), Psalm 50:6, Ecclesiastes 12:14. Jesus is also Judge




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