Jesus and history

theological purpose. He showed God’s plans and purposes working out through history. He showed how Jesus was building his church.…

was all God-inspired, The new testament is made up of twenty-seven book with almost every book written by distinguishable authors. For example, the Synoptic Gospels are all written about the story of Jesus, but each of the books have their own take on the events and the people of Jesus, even Jesus himself. It is similar to comedy shows when two people are explaining the same event, but their stories are different with the same outcome. Mark describes events in a very terse narrative that has…

Jesus was a man. Jesus was born into a poor, working family in Nazareth. Jesus was born in a time that was characterized by the political unrest that culminated as a result of the Roman occupation in Judea. But really, who was Jesus? How is he the same or different than the divine figure and gentle shepherd that followers of Christianity worship today? Can the Christian faith be entirely based upon him, the historical Jesus, the real man? The man Jesus is often considered to have been a…

Being alone, Jesus met a devil in the desert; nobody was around. Similarly, being alone, Faustus meets Mephistopheles for the first time; there were also no witnesses. Moreover, according to the Gospel, the devil tempted Jesus three times: devil asked to turn a stone into a bread; to bow to a devil for the power over all kingdoms; and to rush down from a temple roof that…

Christianity and Judaism are two of the most influential religions in history. While Judaism isn 't as large as Christianity, its impact is still just as prevalent. Christianity emerged from Judaism, forming a new religion. Many people testify that Judaism and Christianity are part of the same dialog and that the beliefs of the two religions are closely similar. Some disagree and examine how the two religions differ through world-views. Over the past 2,000 years, an immense difference occurred…

Jesus Christ: a celestial, heavenly figure shrouded in our contemporary culture as a peaceful prophet whose sole purpose was divine salvation. This representation of Jesus that has permeated throughout history is entirely wrong in Aslan’s perspective. Aslan portrays Jesus as a politically conscious revolutionary who in fact supported violence to a certain extent. Now when Aslan’s critically detested words entered my mind, like most self-proclaimed critics, I mocked this man for his asininity.…

peoples of the human race. Eventually, God gave His only son, Jesus Christ to die for the sins of humanity and to show victory over the devil in living beyond physical death. All of these events can be found in the documented word of God, the Holy Bible. Throughout this work of divine revelation the Old Testament and New Testament are closely related. Throughout the Old Testament, from the Beginning, Genesis, to before the birth of Jesus Christ, the New Testament is foreshadowed, and hidden; it…

Thousand Years, 1-12 According to MacCulloch, Christian history is a story which was told and believed by Jesus’ disciples. He calls Christianity a “personality cult” in which he describes Jesus as a historical figure who was admired and present as God by the early believers. The Christian story is long enough with two millennia for historians to study, yet is a short story as Christianity is young when compared to some other religions and to the history of all humans. In fact, this story has…

man, was there some other men or lady like him in history that we would learn of? I soon understood that the response to that was an extremely stern no. He is the standard, the necessary source, and the Son of God, regarding numerous others; nobody can touch his godliness and effect in religion to me. Coming about because of my recently increased point of view, church turned into a vastly improved scene to learn and learn Christian religion and Jesus Christ. I was gradually starting to have the…

Imagine a church whose history history is over a thousand years, amazing right? The Orthodox church is christianity’s true , holy , and apostolic church established by Jesus Christ , it should feel like an honor to be apart of the church that Jesus Christ himself created right? that fact makes the religion one of the first ever to be made , and also makes it original . The Russian Orthodox church has a history of strong political as well as spiritual influence over the inhabitants of the Russian…