Jesus Christ Research Paper

In the Gospel of Matthew, the focus on the Jewish genealogy of Jesus played a significant role in the birth story. To fully understand Jesus, it was imperative to first acknowledge who Jesus was within Jewish ancestry and his subsequent position as King of the Jews.

What is a Nigger? This one term holds hatred that has transcended generations, and though now only whispered in the homes of white elitist and the ignorant, still is at the root of many of the racial issues African American’s face in America. Despite this, within the African American community the word “nigger” has transformed into the word “nigga”. Thus, changing the connotation from a shackle that made clear one’s position on the social hierarchy to a link that has bounded the community spiritually, symbolizing endearment and brotherhood when used by other African Americans. The change in connotation can now be seen in multiple formats within African American Pop

Bessie makes an interesting point here, I must say. I have a theory as to why this might happen. Before slaves were introduced, most of the people in America were white-skinned -- none of them looked too different from each other. Once the black-skinned people were introduced, the whites saw that they looked very different, and put a tag on all of them, labeled “black.” This sort of tagging is similar to what humans do to identify animals. For example, we know what a turtle moves like because someone made a mapping from a single turtle’s movement to its tag, “turtle.” Now, everyone makes the connection that a turtle is slow. Using the same tagging system to identify animals, connections are then used to identify people who are tagged, “black.” It is an interesting concept. (135 words)

The door on the side of the building into Bitch Media’s headquarters is always locked. For those who would like to go inside, the little haphazardly-taped sign on the door instructs “FEDEX, UPS, USPS + ANYBODY ELSE PLEASE RING THE DOORBELL.” The only way to tell that a powerful feminist publication resides on the second floor of the building is from the small metal sign with “bitch” inscribed. Before Gamergate, a series of personal attacks on female game developers, and the vandalism of the Bitch offices, Bitch’s door would have remained open and unlocked for anyone wanting to use Bitch’s lending library. Now, the staff at Bitch Media cannot take their personal safety for granted. They make sure that there are no obvious markings that might lead to unwanted attention; I parked in front of what Siri told me was the headquarters and walked around the whole building twice before spotting the entrance.

One day there was an open field, but not just any open field. This field was guarded by a goddess, Nixious (Nix-e-ous) goddess of disease. In this field laid her treasure, a young rancher and her cottage with sheep. This rancher impressed the goddess, and earned the name Simkaxzi (Sim-kah-z). One day, a mischievous young thief came to the ranch to take the sheep flock. As soon as he started to put a lead on one of the sheep’s neck, the goddess awakened. Nixious as furious as ever, and picked up the thief with her mighty grasp. She called Simkaxzi down from her small cottage. Nixious announced “Here is thy thief. Simkaxzi should you be thy one to decide punishment, what would it be.” Simkaxzi replied “Let his family be cursed with a disease

Jesus is like the water a person drinks, it is a must to survive. I believe, that everyone has their idealized image of a social figure he or she does not know such as Martin Luther King, John F, Kennedy, and Malcolm X to name a few. Each of these people at one point has been portrayed in entertainment and people do not know if what is being portrayed is true. According to Yancey (1995), he described “Jesus as thin, handsome, skin waxen and milky white man” (p.13). However, after Yancey attends college, he begins to ponder, who is the real image of Jesus, aside from what is being portrayed in movies, or other entertainment? Sometimes, in life, people can go off what they have seen or heard about a person and not really understand the person. While, I am a granddaughter, of a minster, I have been told stories about who Jesus is, but have I seen him as the person he is deep down? The purpose of this paper is seeking to discuss the summary of the book, The Jesus, I Never Knew. I will be talking about Philip Yancey’s take on what he thinks of Jesus. I also will be discussing, some of Philip Yancey strengths and weakness about his book.

This book is based on Christianity and how the religion was viewed through images. The text has an ere of concepts that ties in the concepts of Christians to the beginning of the start of Christianity. The purpose of this book is to show the readers the difference between how Christian art was represented and how other art was portrayed. I will be giving an overview of what Christianity represents and the art work that it includes.

In the NIV version of Genesis 9:18-28, Noah's curse was the main reason to why the slave owners had to justify slavery as it tells a story of how Ham, Noah's son, saw his drunken father unclothed, told his brothers about it, and they somehow covered him without looking at him. When Noah woke up and found out what Ham did, he cursed Ham's son, Canaan, and his future descendants. The slave owners interpreted this story as a dishonor to the father, consequently calling for the mistreatment of slaves. Stephen Haynes asserts, "…proslavery southerners were attracted to the story of Noah and Ham because it resonated with their most deeply-held cultural values" and "understood Ham's transgression as a violation of familial loyalty that marked him and his descendants as utterly lacking in honor (and thus fit for slavery)". What Ham did led the slave owners to believe that because of his behavior, slaves needed to be punish for what he

The Christians believed that the Africans were dark due to the fact that they were sinners, so they were burned from hell as their punishment. Many Christians thought they were evil because of how dark they were, so many of the whites viewed the blacks completely different from them and they did not share any similarities with them. They viewed them as inferior to the whites since they never had complexion as the whites. They did not have ingenious manufactures, such as art and sciences. The blacks were considered rude, barbarous, and were associated with ugliness, compared to the whites. (27-28) Since the people from Africa were darker from them, they thought that their characteristic as a person, and their intelligence levels was also different

“BOOM SHAKALAKA” hollered the announcer at the top of his lungs. Every time an shocking race had been completed in the finals session and a record was broken he hollered that. And He should have especially for this race… I won’t say that I thought it wouldn’t happen in front of my eyes but how was it possible at all, much less in front of my eyes.

Although they chose the African Negro race, race isn’t the cause for it. It’s all about money, power, and the ability to work. African Negros had very little knowledge about anything around this time, and the master saw this as an opportunity to profit off of them. Some people actually thought that no other race could get the job done like African Negros can. People such as the Governor George McDuffie of South Carolina believed that ‘African can change his skin,’ it will be useless to try by any human power, to make free those whom God has doomed to be slaves…’ Slaves were treated in a very horrific way, it seems as if they got beaten more than they deserved. The scars that were left after each whipping are scars that will never heal and that’s something that they just had to deal with. Why? They were property to others, so whatever the master says, goes. Simple. Do your job, or get

I wish I could see “Goofy” again! Goofy was my old best friend about 3 years ago. He and I were like Batman and Super Woman. Goofy was his nickname and we called him goofy simply because of his facial features that resembled those of the cartoon character “Goofy.” His actual name was Robert, but he will always be know as Goofy to me. Goofy was the type of kid who you would look in his eyes and see no type of hope for the future. Goofy and I were raised under the same circumstances but he chose another path to take. Goofy and I were made and molded by the struggle around us but instead of seeing such demising circumstances and choosing to try to make it out, Goofy chose to embrace the struggle as his only path in life. I would always look into

Tillich suggests in the article “A Reinterpretation of the Doctrine of the Incarnation” that Christians do not have a purely historiographical interest in the man known as Jesus, but a thriving interest in the Christ. He elaborates by saying the reports about Jesus of Nazareth found in the gospels are the reports of Jesus as the Christ, not just a man. Tillich finds that mere historical research cannot tear down the foundation of Christianity because there is immense power in the symbol of “Christ” (a topic later discussed in the essay).

The quest for the knowledge on the historical Jesus started as a protest against the traditional dogma of Christianity, but when the neutral historians joined the movement, all they saw was Jesus without features. Even when these scholars decided that other biblical figures such as John the evangelist, John the Baptist, Paul, and others were at home in a symbolic and richly storied world. Jesus himself

Depiction of cultural and religious beliefs have been an important element in many artworks. The newly formed Early Christian religion, the Roman culture, and the Greek culture are no exception to this occurrence. Though living close in proximity to each other, their views differed vastly, in respect to both religion and culture. Roman and Greek views indulged the “here and now”, while those views of the Early Christians centered on the “hereafter”. It is upon the examination of a few artworks taken from either side, that this contrast becomes extremely apparent.