Messiah

scripture and say that it is the building that one is in, such as Matthew 16:13-20. Here it states that Jesus asked his disciples who people thought he was. Some thought a prophet. Then Christ asked Simon Peter and he responded saying, “You are the Messiah, the son of the living God.” A little later on Jesus says that on this rock I (Jesus) will build my church. Do I think that he was…

Question: Is Jesus the Lord, a liar, lunatic, guru, or a myth? Jesus is a central figure for the growing faith that is Christianity. People that are to believe in this religion look to him as the Messiah, meaning the Son of God. In the bible according to John 1:1-3, Jesus existed from the beginning. From the beginning Jesus was with God, and Jesus was God . This statement is liable enough to give evidence that Jesus was the one and only Lord, taking in to account his life and the actions he…

Once upon a time there was a man named Frank, he had a best friends named Joe. Joe always told Frank that they were best friends forever. One day Frank finds out that Joe had a birthday party, but didn’t invite Frank. Frank doesn’t want to be friends with Joe anymore because he was being insincere about their friendship. In the same way God wants us to be sincere about our relationship with him. In Matthew 12:22-37 Matthew warns Christians against being insincere in Christianity. Christians are…

audience that go to the temple. In his teaching, Jesus addresses the Scribes teaching about the messianic figure being the son of David. Jesus challenges his audience to evaluate if the messiah is is the son of David through a logical argument by using scripture. At the end of his argument, Jesus proves that the messiah is not the son of David and the response of the crowd was that they heard him gladly (12:37). Now, the audience at the temple is left to evaluate what the characteristic of a…

delivered his message. Therefore, as they hear the words of Isaiah they understand that the Child/Messiah that will come will also be the one that rules with justice. His kingdom will stand in contrast to the kingdoms of this world. The understanding of Isaiah’s prophetic message of the coming king and kingdom that will set everything in order is much more than our understanding of these words. The coming Messiah not only comes to be established as His people’s King, but as king, He comes to…

To determine Jesus’ true identity, however, one must examine the claims He made concerning Himself, as recorded by both followers and secular authors. Throughout all these testimonies and references, one thing is clear: Jesus declares to be the Messiah, sent by God to redeem His people. In addition, Christ professes His divinity in a number of ways. According to both Scripture and extra-biblical sources, Jesus claims to be the Son…

The sixth reading in chapter one of our texts Pursuing Happiness, edited by Matthew Parfitt and Dawn Skorczewski, presents material translated from The Gospel of Matthew. I studied sources to find out more about this ancient text, and in the paragraphs below. I am going to talk about to whom the book of Matthew written to, who was Matthew as an apostle, and what he accomplished by his gospel. Matthew was one of the twelve apostles chosen by Jesus Christ himself and is the first Chapter in the…

Jesus is the promised Messiah from the Old Testament, the human son of God, and the universal savior, respectively. To start, Matthew, one of the twelve disciples, wrote the Gospel of Matthew for Jewish Christian. Matthew wrote this book in order to proclaim that Jesus is truly the promised Messiah that is stated in the Old Testament. Matthew proves that Jesus is the Messiah because Jesus’ male family-tree goes back to Abraham. “An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of…

information could not be validated historically and how the scripture was manipulated to fit the belief. The main issues that were raised were the birthplace of Jesus, how he went around performing miracles and such and how people compared to previous messiahs. In the following paragraphs, we will be touching based on these issues for you to better understand my point of view in the matters stated above. It was stated that the bible only referred to Jesus being born in Bethlehem twice, whereas,…

leader as well as a teacher and leader by his disciples. Later in the book it talks about how they felt about him being the leader. They did not really question his leadership however were used to Messiah’s being royal. The previous that were called “Messiahs” were rich and from royal lineage. Jesus was the son of a carpenter and lived a humble life. He was not rich with wealth or silver and gold. He was rich in power and knowledge.…