{
  "id": 2722196,
  "title": "Jesus Was Right. You Are God and Infinite.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/jesus-was-right-you-are-god-and-infinite",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-23T05:05:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/wiseai/jesus-was-right-you-are-god-and-infinite-6cc"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "There is a profound truth that Christianity itself supports, which most church hierarchies have hidden away so deeply that most Christians have never even heard it. Jesus himself claimed this truth in astonishingly direct language. The title of this article reveals that truth, and I will not pretend there is any mystery about it. Jesus was right, and among the many things he was right about, he was right that you are divine, that you carry within you something deeply godlike. This is not a message of arrogance or heresy, but rather the oldest and most straightforward reading of the biblical text. The institutions that suppressed this idea did so not because it was false, but because it was dangerous, empowering to human beings. I am not a theologian, but I read the Bible on my own, away from institutions, and discovered things in the text that shocked me - not because they were dark or frightening, but because they were so generous and expansive about what a human being truly is. This gap between what the text actually says and what I was taught the text says is what this article is about. I was raised as a Muslim, but I no longer identify with that faith. As I write, I am not a Christian in the institutional sense, but I follow Jesus's teachings, believing that the truth he spoke is the most important truth I have encountered. This article is my attempt to uncover the buried truth about human nature, as revealed in the Bible.",
  "summary": "Hey everyone 👋, I wrote in Christianity Makes Perfect Sense! about how some truths are deeply unfashionable, and how the discomfort a truth produces is often the surest sign that it is worth sitting with. This post is in that spirit. I want to talk about something that I have been turning over in my head for a long time, something that Christianity itself, read carefully and without the…",
  "key_points": [
    "Jesus claimed humans are divine and godlike in the article",
    "The truth about human nature is buried in the Bible, hidden by institutions",
    "The author, raised as a Muslim, now follows Jesus' teachings and seeks to uncover this truth"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The author's reinterpretation of Jesus' teachings restores a long-suppressed Christian idea that human beings are inherently divine, challenging traditional institutional understandings of human nature.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}