Jesus and history

Triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1-11) Jesus and his disciples are on their way to Jerusalem for the Passover feast. In Jerusalem was crowded with many people who had come for the annual Passover celebration in a springtime Sunday. Jesus had spent for traveling through the towns and villages of Palestine. He preached about the kingdom of God and healed the sick. Now the time had come for Him to claim as the Messiah. Jesus knew His mission was almost finished and He warned his…

and actions. True Christians consciously and diligently seek a life of morality, expressing Godly wisdom in their experiences, choices, actions and reactions. Such Godly wisdom often appears foolishness to humanity (1 Corinthians 1:2225), but as Jesus has taught, “Wisdom is justified by her deeds” (Matthew 11:19). Every person has need of wisdom, and each person possesses the ability to determine wise thinking and action. Therefore, it is incumbent upon man, to navigate the pathway of life…

himself through history of Jesus Christ. "God's Not Dead" has ten chapters, and within those chapters are multiple subsections with stories, manuscripts, information,…

The first chapter in the book More Than a Carpenter talks about how the author, Josh McDowell, came to be a Christian. He talks about how when he was younger, he was also searching for answers to three main questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? He looked for the answers to this questions in many different ways. He tried constantly going to church, but the church he was going to didn't find him the answers he was looking for. He tried to become educated, but this didn't work…

significance of that child. “Later on this man, Jesus, begins teaching the word, driving out evil spirits, preforming miracles, raising the dead and healing the sick. The book then closes with the dramatic death where he is executed by the Romans who saw Jesus as a threat to their ruling” (NTHL 7). “Most historians believe that the four Gospels were first published anonymously and that the names they now bear are labeled to the disciples that were closest to Jesus” (NTHL 20). The other books of…

most significant source of the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. Though there are some similar stories related to Jesus in these books, the four Gospels give four distinctive accounts of Jesus ' life, earthly ministry, teaching, and resurrection. Among these dissimilarities, one most obvious and principal difference is the record of Jesus’ genealogy. Both Matthew and Luke offer the family tree of Jesus, but the two Gospels trace the ancestry of Jesus in different…

HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAIL The Holy Grail represent a search for spiritual fulfillment The Holy Grail represent a search for spiritual fulfillment. CITING Legend says that if you put a dead body in the Holy Grail it will restore you back to life.CITING The Holy Grail has something to do with King Arthur? The Holy grail has something to do with King Arthur too. King Arthur told his knights to go looking for the Holy grail only one found it. We have heard only the purest night would be restored.…

I believe that Jesus is the Messiah. The definition of savior according to the dictionary is a person who saves someone or something from danger, and who is regarded with the veneration of a religious figure. According to Luke Timothy Johnson, Jesus is the Messiah who the New Testament declares is the Son of God who came to this earth to suffer willingly and die for our sins. I am going to compare the description above with some other ideas about who many theologians think Jesus is. First, I…

Chapter seven of the book Acts start with Stephen addressing Sanhedrin by beginning his defense by citing history. He reminds the Sanhedrin that God appeared to Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia and told him to go to Haran. He goes through highlights on Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, and Solomon all in one chapter. He start with Abraham the how God promised him with land, and his descendants would possess that land even though at the time Abraham didn’t. They…

Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is, explains what Wright's intent and purposes were for writing this book. Wright's purposes for writing this book was to show who the real Jesus was, what his teachings meant and how they can be applied to the modern society. Wright presumes that Christians go Sunday to Sunday repeating scripture and repeating the same things over and over, not fully analyzing what the text is saying. He claims that people need to analyze who Jesus really was…