How do we know Jesus didn't lie?

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My nine year old sister asked how we can know that Jesus was telling the truth and not lying when He said he was God. :eek: I know there is some answer and explanation to this question but I can’t remember what it was 🤷…Thank so much! 🙂
 
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My nine year old sister asked how we can know that Jesus was telling the truth and not lying when He said he was God. :eek: I know there is some answer and explanation to this question but I can’t remember what it was 🤷…Thank so much! 🙂
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Has she been talking to Muslims, Jehovah’s witnesses or Jews lately?

The answer is that it is catholic church dogma to believe Jesus is God, and therefore Jesus can not lie. If he could lie, he would not be a perfect sacrifice. Then his death on the cross would be useless.
 
If he lied there would not be so many witnesses to his resurection.
 
Catholicgirlie said:
My nine year old sister asked how we can know that Jesus was telling the truth and not lying when He said he was God. :eek: I know there is some answer and explanation to this question but I can’t remember what it was 🤷…Thank so much! 🙂
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Hi.

Here’s something recent from Tim Staples that I’ll try to paraphrase here in logical bits that might help your sister.
  • Jesus claims he’s God.
  • Jesus is arrested and killed on the cross.
  • The disciples of Christ scatter to the four winds.
Now…knowing what the Jewish elders have just done to their leader, why would the disciples (I use this word to collectively mean the Apostles, the Marys and so on) make an elaborate effort to remove Christ’s body to fake a resurrection at the risk of angering the elders further?

This is the key, as Staples would say. Why would the disciples orchestrate a fake resurrection in a climate where being an early Christian was practically a death sentence? The Apostles and disciples would not have perpetuated a lie that Christ started at the risk of their own lives.

Combined with the 500+ others with the Twelve who had actually saw the resurrected Lord, that makes for powerful evidence that Christ was who He said He was. 🙂 Hope that helps!
 
Didn’t Jesus say he was preforming those miracles so that people would believe? I don’t remember the exact verses, but I think the miracles were to prove he was who he said he was.
 
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