Jesus To Christ Textual Analysis

The search for historical Jesus is a difficult one. As mentioned in the video "From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians," there is no written information about Jesus at the time that he lived, the written information we have is after the time of Jesus’ life and we do not know who the author(s) are. I believe that you have to integrate the historical, and archeology, findings with the messages in the Bible; you cannot ignore solid evidence. As we have learned in this class you must take into account the social norms of the time period of Jesus. You must also take into consideration the various meanings/translations of words from Arabic to Greek to English (Jews does not mean Jews as we know it today).
As is noted in The Tensions Between …show more content…
Memorable Form or Content-meaning something is more likely to be true if it is in expressions that are easy to remember; I again believe this is true, if something is easy to remember short statements or things that you can relate to your situation rather than a lengthy lecture or things that have no meaning to your everyday …show more content…
O’Connor is suggesting that what really happened at the Transfiguration: Jesus was convinced he was on a mission from God, however knew that he had resistance to this mission and knew what had happened to other prophets and John the Baptist, therefore knew that his mission would end in his death. Jesus felt that God was challenging him to this mission and yet trying to block him from completing his mission. Jesus went to pray about his predicament. When Jesus came to terms with and knew his purpose “his face lit up,” thus make him appear radiant to the disciples. Jesus somehow realized that his death would not be the end of his ministry but was in some way God’s plan to strengthen his