User:Isacdaavid/sandbox/List of people who have been considered deities
Posthumous deification
[edit]| Who | Image | When | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jesus |  |
1st century |
The Pauline epistles from the early second half of the 1st century CE offer the earliest references to Jesus as the Son of God (See Romans 1 for example). The First Council of Nicaea of 325 AD crystallized this notion in the Nicene creed and declared Jesus God Incarnate. Early Christian denominations with different christologies such as the Ebionites fell in popularity, and he is now considered divine in most Christian views of Jesus (God the Son in Trinitarian Christianity). |
Self-deification
[edit]| Who | Image | When | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jesus | |
1st century |
According to most contemporary Christian views of Jesus, the New Testament reports him as hinting at, or claiming to be God in passages such as John 10:30,[1] and John 14:9[2] dating from the late 1st century or 2nd century CE. |