Why Jesus?

Updated: June 11, 2025

The Bible leaves no other option, and no room for anyone else: Jesus is the Messiah, the Savior of the world, the King of Kings.

But why did He come as a baby? If Jesus is God, wouldn’t He have just descended one day from heaven and started preaching and healing people? No, because to do so would not have accomplished the redemption of mankind. God had to become a man for at least two reasons. First, He did this because God could not find anyone else spotless enough to be an acceptable, legal sacrifice for sin. Animals were insufficient for a permanent solution. Second, that one-time sacrifice had to be human, born of a woman, because it was humankind that was being redeemed.

Redemption wasn’t His only mission. He was destined to take the throne of both heaven and earth, and all authority except that of God the Father Himself is now His. One day soon, Satan will no longer be the god of this world. The government shall be upon Jesus’ shoulders, as the prophet Isaiah foretold it, when mankind officially submits themselves to His dominion at the end of the age.

For millennia, God had been saying through His prophets many things about Messiah that were certain to happen. It wasn’t clear how it was all going to play out, as the enemies of God needed to be kept in the dark. Looking back, however, we can see just how many things Jesus fulfilled. We marvel at how Jesus seems to be found everywhere in the Old Testament (For example, Noah’s Ark, Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac and the ram, the Passover lamb, etc.). Why accept any substitutes? Believe in Jesus and the entire Kingdom opens up to you! (See also Why Kingdom?)
(John 14:6, Isaiah 44:6, Acts 4:8-12, Hebrews 10:1-6, Galatians 4:4-7, Isaiah 9:6, 1 Corinthians 15:27, 1 Corinthians 2:7-8, 2 Peter 1:16, Colossians 2:9, 1 John 2:2, 1 John 2:12, 1 John 2:23, 1 John 3:5, 1 John 3:8, 1 Peter 3:21-22, Revelation 11:13-15)