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1 Session 5 Final Paper Nikki Meier Colorado Christian University BIB-102A-15002-SP24: New Testament Introduction Instructor Cheatham February 18, 2024
2 Session 5 Final Paper The life of Jesus and His lessons are the primary foundation for the New Testament. Like Jesus taught His followers, this class taught us about His life and the importance of our faith in Him. For this paper, we will put into perspective everything we have learned throughout this class, such as the different names of Jesus and much more. To begin, we will review five names of Jesus, for He has used various names throughout the New Testament. While there were various names that He was referred to as the most common would be Christ and Savior. However, I will evaluate the names of Immanual, the light of the world, the lamb of God, and the bread of life. To start, we will look at Jesus as Immanuel. We see that from the start of the New Testament in Matthew 1:23, “BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD AND SHALL BEAR A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL,” which translated means, “GOD WITH US” (New American Standard Bible, 1960/1995)—in doing this Matthew wanted us to understand the meaning of the word, as well as this being a fulfillment which Isaiah said. Isaiah 7:14 says, “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel” (New American Standard Bible, 1960/1995). Furthermore, “Matthew wanted to show that the virgin conception was not something new, but that it had been predicted by the prophet Isaiah” (Stewart, 2007). Contuning now to Jesus being called or referred to as the light of the word, Jesus gave Himself this title per His I am claims. “Jesus himself demands this Christological belief by making a series of “I am …” claims in the Fourth Gospel: “I am the light of the world” (8:12) (Gundry, 2012, Chapter 10, Page. 224). “Throughout the week-long Festival of Tabernacles, the
3 Jews kept four huge candelabra burning in the temple area to commemorate the pillar of fire that led and guarded Israel in the wilderness. This custom forms the background for Jesus’ claim to be the light of the world, which in the first instance means the sun but ultimately means Jesus as the light of eternal life for all who believe in him” (Gundry, 2012, Chapter 10, Page. 239). In doing this, Jesus wanted to make His followers fully aware that His light kept the darkness at bay. John 1:4-5 says, “In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (New American Standard Bible, 1960/1995). Furthermore, we will look at Jesus as the word now; it is in John that we see Jesus being referred to as the word. John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (New American Standard Bible, 1960/1995). The purpose of the gospel of John was to give us an introduction to Jesus, “Some scholars think that in this prologue the evangelist works over an earlier existing hymn, others believe that he composes on his own against the background of the Old Testament stories of creation and the giving of the law on Mount Sanai” (Gundry, 2012, Chapter 10, Page. 227). So, about Jesus as the word, John was able to bring the word from the Old Testament as understood by the Jews and use it for the Gentiles to communicate that Jesus was human and to help them better understand Christianity as a whole. Now looking at Jesus as the lamb of God, John 1:24-25, “Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. They asked, him and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet” (New American Standard Bible, 1960/1995)? After the events that are mentioned in the verses above take place, John 1:29 says, “The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the World” (New American Standard Bible, 1960/1995)! Jesus is also referenced as the lamb of God again
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