Jesus and history

teacher for his faith, the upcoming film will feature a reversed situation. In “God’s Not Dead 2,” Melissa Joan Hart plays history teacher Grace Wesley, who faces court after one student asked her about the common denominator in the teachings of Jesus, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mahatma Ghandi. Her answer gets her into trouble and the parents of the student sue Grace, saying Jesus has never existed, Christian Today reports. In the trailer for “God’s Not Dead 2,” the school officials demand…

Throughout the history of church there have always been questions about the reliability of the canon (books of the Bible.) Some people believe there should be more books added to the canon (apocrypha) while others believe that certain books be stripped away from the canon. I have prepared myself to have a personal conversation about the authority that establishes the canon. Here are three questions that could arise when having a personal conversation about the canon: 1. Who determines which…

Matthew chapter 27 records the trial and death of Christ. Needless to say, Jesus’ death was a monumental event in history. There were several things in the events of his arrest, trial, and death that are very noteworthy. Also, the theological significance of His death is worthy of review and contemplation. The arrest of Jesus Christ is a tale of deep betrayal. Judas Iscariot, a member of the original twelve disciples, was contacted by Caiaphas the high priest. Judas was contracted for thirty…

is known as “a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices” (Religion). Throughtout history religion has played a significant role. It has changed throughout time beginning with B.C. and continuing until today. We began with Jesus Christ who was Jewish. Now we have so many religions and different gods to believe in. In history religion was expected to diminish and become less important. However, it has done the opposite and become one of the most…

Jewish rituals and leaders. A Jewish teacher; Jesus of Nazareth, recognized as the…

respectively by two of Jesus Christ’s followers. John was a fisherman, chosen by Jesus to become a part of his close circle of followers the disciples. Luke, on the other hand, was a physician by profession that did not know Jesus personally, but gained his insight from speaking with those that had firsthand knowledge of Jesus. They each present the accounts of Jesus’ life with their own individual perspective, thereby giving the reader a more complete understanding of who Jesus really was. THE…

“Excavating Jesus” proved to be a unique blend of ground as gospel, as self-claimed in its introduction. However, after the engaging introduction, filled with facts and fun quips from the authors, the reader was pulled away from the goal of excavating Jesus and towards a textual representation of first century history that no longer focused on the historical Jesus but rather the historical Christian. Written by John Dominic Crossan, an Irish-American Catholic religious scholar, and Johnathan…

the background of Isaiah Jesus proclaims to the Jews the fulfillment of the good news of the prophet Isaiah. At the same time with the language of the imperial cult he announces to the Roman world that the good news for the world began not with Caesar Augustus but with Jesus the Jewish Messiah, the true Son of God (144).” By this Jesus then shows not just the Jewish faith, but also the world that the Kingdom of God was on Earth. This merely sparked the belief that Jesus was in fact the Son of…

“Christology for the New Millennium” First, “Christology is the theological study devoted to answering two main questions: Who is Jesus? (the question of his identify) also What is the nature and significance of what Jesus accomplished in the incarnation? (the question of his work). Now, the meaning of Millennium refers to the thousand-year reign, to anticipate that the new millennium will occur at some future time (Grenz 25, 79). With the meaning of both words in mind, Christology…

Christians reject life, Buddhism suffers many of Christianity’s faults, etc.). However, in section 39 he provides a new critique. He talks of the way Christians try to be like Jesus, which he believes to be a better grounding principle of the religion than to simply state your belief in God’s…