Jade Lambert
28 November 2014
R. Stephens
Religion 1020
The Problem of the Messiah
Throughout history the argument among religions have always been present. As religion is one thing that most people have in common, but it is also one on the most definitive factors in what sets people apart. People have found comfort in religion since the beginning of time, so it is only logical to think that as long as people are practicing religion people are also arguing its validity in the same right. The Old Testament bible referred to by christians is actually the jewish Torah. The original religion was judaism. Only with Jesus Christ (King of the Jews) was there a branch off from the jewish religion to what are now called Christians. The argument between Judaism is a dispute as old as time. Being that the two religions are so similar and have half of the same religious texts, it can be hard to see where the two took a turn. One of the oldest arguments on the …show more content…
The Romans, by request of the jewish officials killed jesus by way of crucifixion (the tradional way of killing criminals in rome. The story is told that Judas was the one who gave up jesus’s whereabouts to the Romans and therefore he was the one who betrayed jesus.
The reason people are so sure that jesus is the savior and the son of God is that on the third day after his crucifixion he rose from the dead and came back to his disciples to show them that he lived again. The resurrection of Jesus was looked at as a miracle as people can just rise from the dead. With the help of his disciples the word of the resurrection of Jesus was told everywhere. Jesus was then said to descend to heaven to be with his father until the world is ready for his second coming, when he will take all of his followers to heaven with him and the
28 November 2014
R. Stephens
Religion 1020
The Problem of the Messiah
Throughout history the argument among religions have always been present. As religion is one thing that most people have in common, but it is also one on the most definitive factors in what sets people apart. People have found comfort in religion since the beginning of time, so it is only logical to think that as long as people are practicing religion people are also arguing its validity in the same right. The Old Testament bible referred to by christians is actually the jewish Torah. The original religion was judaism. Only with Jesus Christ (King of the Jews) was there a branch off from the jewish religion to what are now called Christians. The argument between Judaism is a dispute as old as time. Being that the two religions are so similar and have half of the same religious texts, it can be hard to see where the two took a turn. One of the oldest arguments on the …show more content…
The Romans, by request of the jewish officials killed jesus by way of crucifixion (the tradional way of killing criminals in rome. The story is told that Judas was the one who gave up jesus’s whereabouts to the Romans and therefore he was the one who betrayed jesus.
The reason people are so sure that jesus is the savior and the son of God is that on the third day after his crucifixion he rose from the dead and came back to his disciples to show them that he lived again. The resurrection of Jesus was looked at as a miracle as people can just rise from the dead. With the help of his disciples the word of the resurrection of Jesus was told everywhere. Jesus was then said to descend to heaven to be with his father until the world is ready for his second coming, when he will take all of his followers to heaven with him and the