YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Historical Jesus
Essays 31 - 60
ordinary Jewish resident who grew up in Nazareth in Galilee (Attridge, 1998). He lived and died as a Jew and He had to have been i...
"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...
acceptable sacrifice capable of redeeming the sins of humanity. My personal beliefs (meaning the beliefs of the student, not thi...
phrase could mean the individual had a special relationship with God, therefore, they must learn the meaning of this in terms of J...
teaches that "all of the Law and the Prophets rest on the command to love God and neighbor (22:34-40)" (Kozar 78). Matthew 22:34...
cognitively prepare the hearer for the evangelical message of salvation that will soon follow and the third interpretation is that...
Later in Luke, we read "The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men . . . ." (Luke 24:7). In the Acts of the Apo...
For example, when Jesus metaphorically gives Peter the "keys to the kingdom," Jesus refers to a verse in Isaiah that speaks of the...
the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...
well as with the earthly King David, through Joseph, who acknowledges Jesus as his son (Brown, 1997). Joseph is in the line of Dav...
is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...
Jesus was both human and Divine as is reflected in many parts of the New Testament. This paper discusses the account of the Last S...
Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). At age 30, Jesus began His ministry. He g...
edification of readers who seek, like him, to try to deepen their understanding of Christianity. In accomplishing this task, Gre...
called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things." Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He" (John 4:25-26). III. J...
Messiahs coming. These questions will be addressed on the following pages. Historical Concept of the Messiah...
For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...
home and found that this was true. This sign not only showed that Jesus possessed power over life and death, but also the role of ...
went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his masters money. 19"After a long time the master of those servants returned and settl...
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...
born to Mary, a virgin, lived among men, preached for three years, was crucified and rose from the dead. He did this to save human...
men" (Jeffrey, 1990). Each taught a new truth as commanded by God, each performed miracles, both spent their childhoods in Egypt, ...
to be the so-called "Corinthian Gate," and that this was the place where "the crippled man had been placed so that he could beg f...
move allowed him to lead a life of leisure rather than one of hard work and he spent a great deal of time "in religious contemplat...
perhaps even more interesting, is that he managed to connect to everyone. His stories and parables could be understood on the mos...
If we show that Jesus Christ is the Second Person in the Holy Trinity, we also demonstrate that Jesus is the Son of God, which is ...
This essay focuses on two main topic areas but comments on other issues such as the connexion structure of the Methodist church, w...
son, to God is record in Genesis 22. God instructed Abraham to take "your son, your only son, whom you love-Isaac-and go to the re...
John was familiar with Jewish ideas regarding the Messiah. He incorporated those ideas into his Gospel. He gently brings about the...
of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...