This is one of the big questions that the early church had to resolve, and one that has continued to be the focus of discussion, and disagreement 2000 years after he walked among us. 

What a person’s answer to this fundamental question is, tells us which religion they belong to and what else they may believe about God. 

The field of study known as Christology, the study of Christ, focuses on this and related questions. Christology has many very precise big Greek words, like hypostases, perichoreses and Homoousion. The purpose of these and other words is to be clear and prevent confusion, but for a general audience they can be confusing in themselves, simply because they are unfamiliar. So, for the purpose of this web page, I will use everyday language in order to convey some of the basic ideas of who we say Jesus is. 

Catholics believe that Jesus Is fully God and fully human. Not half God/half human like some demigod like Hercules, or a split personality like Golem. Jesus is all God and all Human and is one person. 

We identify Jesus with the divine Word of God, the word that is God and is with God from the beginning - the Word with which God creates the universe. 

We believe Jesus is the Word made flesh. That is, human flesh. 

God’s Word came into the world as a human being who was called Jesus. 

We say Jesus has a human nature and a divine nature united in one person. We cannot separate his Godness and his Humanness from each other. 

Every human is made in the image and likeness of God,  

Jesus is a human; he is the perfect human, the Human that shows us how we can live a new humanity that we were made for, leaning into our dignity as images of our God. This perfect Human is also our perfect God, come to dwell with us, and to redeem the whole world.