Simply put, Jesus is God himself come to earth. He lived a perfect life as a human, and then gave his life as a sacrifice for our sins, taking with him the punishment and death each of us owed. The bible says about Jesus: In his Gospel, Matthew referred to an Old Testament prophecy which originally appeared in Isaiah 7:14, centuries prior to Jesus' birth: "All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had said through the prophet: 'The virgin will be...