Jesus, Mary, and the Church are all essential people in the New Testament who help to teach humanity about being human. Being human and what it means to be human can be a difficult concept to understand and also to actually live in everyday life. Once the idea is understood humanity must then learn live it. To understand what it means to be human is one step in the right direction; however, as devoted Catholics it crucial to take it one step further and live out how to be human according to Jesus, Mary, and the Church. Jesus in particular helps us to understand what it means to be human through His Incarnation, His suffering, death, and resurrection and through the birth of the Church which was born from Him, all of which is by the virtue of love. …show more content…
This is known according to John’s account which states “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Before Jesus, God sent prophets, but then God sent his only son to come down to earth and become apart of humanity. Jesus’ Incarnation assisted mankind in understanding the creation of matter. Catholics learn to believe that God created matter to be good, therefore He did it out of love, not spite or anger. The heresy, Gnosticism, is the belief that matter is bad. The Incarnation directly rejects the idea of evil matter since Jesus took on flesh, flesh is matter, Jesus is good, and His goodness was sent by a loving God. God’s eternal love is immensely displayed through the Incarnation of Jesus
He further clarifies that in Christianity, God is not even a person. Instead, he is a dynamic, pulsating activity — almost a kind of drama. Additionally, he says the Holy Spirit also shares in the same love that exists between God and Jesus; and like them, He is eternal also. The author informs us that we too can share in that eternal love, and we can help others share in it as well. Here, he reminds us that those superior traits, as well as appalling ones that we know, come by a kind of infection — we come in contact with the source of the infection. Therefore, we can take part in the shared love that exists between the three persons by coming in contact with that love. Furthermore, we can expose others to that love, so that they might also become infected. Each of us, then, can become a "little Christ," which is the whole purpose of becoming a
The role of the sacred text is of major significant in understanding Christian principal beliefs and this is evident through the divinity of humanity of Jesus Christ. To start off with Christianity affirms the full divinity and complete humanity of Jesus Christ. While remaining fully divine and for the salvation of the world, the second person of the holy trinity, god the son, took upon himself a complete human nature and become human in Jesus Christ john 1:14 ‘the lord became flesh and made his dwelling amongst us. We have seen this glory, the glory of the one and the only who came from the father, full of grace and truthful’. Also Jesus was born of a Jewish woman calledMary, he died on the cross under Pontius Pilate and rose from the dead with a glorified humanity. Church councils, from Nicaea refused all the efforts to compromise or deny the fullness of both humanity and divinity in the person of Jesus Christ, reveals the divine person of God the son. In Galatians 4:4 ‘ but
Her undying passion and faith in God contributed towards her vocation which inspired others. From birth till death Mary has been a significant figure in the church’s history.
God loved and care for His creation of humanity so much, that He sent Himself to earth in human form, Jesus Christ the messiah to save all people of all nations. God as Jesus develop human relationships with the people around Him, especially the twelve disciples who he sent out to proclaim the message of God’s kingdom. Jesus even spoke to the disciples about loving him more than they would ever love their wife or children before Him. God wanted to be your first love before anyone else in your life, he wanted a lasting deep relationship in your life, He wanted to actively involve with humanity. God loved humanity and wanted an eternal bond with His creation “that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
When discussing the Bible’s New Testament, there are several individuals aside from Jesus that gander a lot of attention. It is not uncommon to hear pastors and priest preaching about the disciples that walked with the messiah during his time of great works during a Sunday service. There are many lessons to be learned from the experiences of and trails faced by the men that knew best. However, even though the Bible is considerable a masculine text, there are many notable women sprinkled throughout it. Most notable, of course, would be the mother of Jesus, Mary. She made several appearances throughout the Gospel from the moment the angel came to her and said “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you” (Luke 1:28) to let her know that she was going to be the mother of the “Son of the Most High” (Luke 1:32) to the moment she stood witness to the crucifixion of that Son. Today, after Jesus, Mary – sometimes also called The Virgin Mary – is among those most revered in the Bible. However, she is not the only Mary to have close ties to the Biblical savior. There are actually at least three other Marys to walk along side with Jesus at some point, but none more conversational than Mary Magdalene.
Gnostics believed one good God created “nature,” or the spiritual world, while another evil God created “matter,” or the physical world. To them, every part of the physical world is evil. This differs from what Augustine says about good and evil in Book 7 of Confessions. He believes in just one God, who created everything, including all matter, and that everything God created is good. He completely disagreed that there is a God who creates evil in the world.
As a result, recitation is very important to the Catholics. The Catholic Church also has firm hierarchyfrom the priests to bishops and archbishops to the Pope. Catholics also believe in Mary who was a virgin (Virgin Mary) which was a person who gave birth to Jesus, which gave her the title 'Mother of God.' Catholics believe in transubstantiation, that holds that the bread and wine which become the blood of Christ by a blessing of a
Which now I know that Jesus was God's way of giving salvation for everyone including the Gentiles. The only way this could happen was through Jesus' sacrifice, which replaced the animal sacrifices that were required. The Old Testament being the original text for God's people, but they continued to turn their back on God, so God provided himself as Jesus and the New Testament as a guideline for all believers to live by. Many other questions about my experience with Catholisum for example, praying to saints, and the importance placed on the Virgin Mary. After further research I came up with the opinion that praying to saints goes against what the Bible states, which is that the only way to God is through Jesus Christ. While I do agree that Mary was an important figure in our religion, but I don't place her in the same category as Jesus. I also don' t agree with how people are voted into sainthood by other humans, because humans are all sinners, so if humans vote in saints, then these saints will be receiving God's
John Paul II, he touches on this point, “In a special way, believers in Christ must defend and promote this right, aware as they are of the wonderful truth recalled by the Second Vatican Council: ‘By his incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every human being’ This saving event reveals to humanity not only the boundless love of God who ‘so loved the world that he gave his only Son’ (Jn 3:16), but also the incomparable value of every human person” (Evangelium Vitae).
Gnostics were convinced that this world was evil and certainly not the creation of the almighty God who in Gnosticism remained completely unknowable apart from revelation. This world, they believed, arose either from the actions of a lesser or hostile deity (to some, this was the God of the Old Testament) or from downward emanations from the realms of pure spirit. According to Gnostics, the God of the Old Testament was not the God revealed by Jesus, the previously unknown, fully transcendent Supreme Being. Thus they separated creation from redemption. Their dualism of spirit and matter led them generally to make a sharp distinction between the human Jesus and the divine Christ. Gnostics held that the divine Son entered into the human body of
ideas of God the Father, Jesus the Son of God and the Holy Spirit in
It is taught in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition that every human being is made in God’s image and likeness. The CIT claim that the dignity of every being is inviolable and the commitment to justice for the common good is necessary is an important claim because God has taught us that every human life matters, we need to respect each other and different beliefs, and that we need to work together to improve the overall acceptance of other ethnicities and religions. To be understanding of other faiths and other beliefs is the first step to accepting other people for who they are, thus benefitting the common good. “Charity in Truth” and “The Uses of Knowledge” both represent this CIT claim because of the way they describe how we need to act
However, the concept incarnation is at work in the New Testament. The Greek equivalent of incarnate is found in scripture. The Greek equivalent of incarnate is in carne (en sarki) meaning that God came in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16; 1 John 4:2; 2 John 7). Jesus took on the form of man so that he might bridge the gap between human creation and His father. God sent Jesus as a child to a lost and dying world. Jesus came to us as human. He did not lay down his divinity and pick up humanity. He came to us as both divine and human. Through this act God was revealed in a personal way to humankind, and therefore in a way which is more adequate for a personal God to interact with his creation. God now was an advocate to his people. He no longer had to communicate his words through prophets, lawgivers, or even wise men. It allowed God to be united with humanity, so that he might be able to bear their sins, and make atonement for them in one act of sacrifice and reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:19 – 21). What humanity itself could not do was done in human beings by the Son of God (Romans 5:8) .
Oxford English Dictionary defines “humanism” as “any system of thought or ideology which places humanity as a whole, at its center, especially one which stresses the inherent value and potential of human life.” In Sartre’s lecture, “Existentialism is a humanism,” not only Sartre’s elaboration of humanism is coherent with the notion of “humanism,” but also his demonstration of “existentialism” as one kind of humanisms is cogent. In contrast with those Aristotelians and Thomists who believe that essence (in this case, the human nature predetermined by God) precedes existence, Sartre, as an atheist, claims that “man exists before he can be defined by any concept of it.” As an atheist myself, I am convinced by Sartre’s view on human value and potential that man is constantly in the making, and it is through this process that man realizes and defines himself.
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