Celsus Arguments Against Christianity Essay

     Throughout these chapters we see many portrayals of God’s character: The destroyer, the ever-judging, a God with expectations, a God that grieves, feels pain, repents, a God that demands justice; a self-evaluating, ruling and omnipotent God whom also passes on saving grace to the deserving.

Jesus Christ is the central figure of Christianity, the only way of salvation and the second person of the Trinity. (Funk & Wagnalls, 2015) The Gospels Matthew and Luke introduce the birth and childhood of God’s one and only Son, Jesus. His story began when the Angel Gabriel visited His virgin mother, announcing that she would give birth to a son, and that she was to call Him Jesus, for He would be called the Son of God. (Luke 1:30-35) The incarnation of the Messiah, was the Word

The way in which both Matthew and Luke treat Mary in their birth narratives affects our understanding of the historicity of these accounts. It could be argued that both of the birth narratives present the male ideology of that time. This is clear when in Luke, Mary is first introduced as “a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David” This description reveals the two most important features of a woman of her time: her virginity and, the man who she belonged to. This male ideology is also presented through Matthew’s writing as he also associates the female population with the aspect of birth and nurture. However, despite both of

He was forced into one of the worst labor concentration camps and through it all he found and held on to the slightest bit of hope. For example, “ I no longer felt anything except for the lashes of the whip….He took his time with the lashes. Only the first one really hurt.” Even though the lashes hurt really bad all he could think about was his father, “ I was thinking of my father. He would be suffering more than I,” He wasn’t really focused on the fact that he just got beat. He had lost his faith and belief in God through this traumatic event; and even through this time, when he had little faith, he was resilient and pushed through. He pushed through even though he had no idea of the future. Even though he could have give up and died at any point during his time there, he decided to be resilient and to keep

(p.33) He was starting to wonder what kind of a God would let such atrocities happen. How could God stay silent while these things happened? That night will always represent the night his belief started to wither

He did not understand why that God was allowing such terrible things to happen, and why was he not showing pity on his own people. He also did not want to bless God and pray, as he said,”Every fiber in me rebelled,”(67). He refused to continue practice a religion where his God was not even sympathetic towards his own

when jesus let the jerusalem soldiers “kill” him, he did it for the greater good, he sacrificed

without punishment or condemnation. When he was a child, he experienced the fear of death that

Suprisingly most of their reasoning behind their outlooks on Jesus Christ’s nature is based on construed scripture taken out of context. Though the scripture add merit to their points of view they seem to look over other scriptures that point to Jesus Christ as the Son of God, born of Man.

the prime intercessor between Man and Christ. Since the Virgin's role had been denied by the

enemies would be left to rot, but in his own reality, he is doing the only

On the one hand, virgin birth theology has often served as a helpful explanatory tool for adherents to what is commonly called “two-nature” Christology – the idea that Jesus was both fully God and fully human. In a way (though I’ve always thought it bore the stench of Nestorianism), it allowed theologians the explanatory power to say how it was that the one person of Jesus was constituted by two separate natures – divine and human. But in the early Church’s battle to stave off Arianism and those who rejected the full divinity of Christ, virgin birth theology was a crucial

The rest of gods were upset about that, but they couldn't do much. The gods didn’t care about disasters excepts Nvwa.

According to the Talmud, Jesus was actually an illegitimate child. In a passage narrated in the Tract Kallah, 1b (18b), Rabbi Akibah says to Mary, “Tell me, what kind of son is this of yours?” to which Mary responds, “The day I was married I was having menstruation, and because of this my husband left me. But an evil spirit came and slept with me and from this intercourse my son was born to me.”3 The Talmud (the Babylonian Talmud in particular) refers to Jesus as “Son of Stada/Satda” and “Son of Pandera” ; these titles are not used clearly, but it is evident that both are used in reference to Jesus, and scholars have inferred their probable meanings. Sanhedrin 67a states that “The son of Stada was son of Pandera. Rab Chisa said: The husband was Stada, the lover Pandera. . . his mother was Miriam, the women’s hairdresser; as they would say. . . S’tath da to her husband”; S’tath da means “she was unfaithful” or “she proved faithless,” and is obviously used in reference to Mary’s lack of faithfulness to her husband.4 According to this passage, Stada was Jesus’ legal father (Mary’s husband), and Pandera was his biological father, Mary’s alleged lover. Stada is also used as a nickname for Mary, again, in reference to her alleged infidelity. According to Jewish

Instead, he uses his power to gather his enemies so that he can bring them to repentance and subsequently forgive them in order for everyone to be reconciled.