Jesus Death Research Paper

Once upon a time, in a far off land lived a man named Jesus. Jesus was the Son of God. His mother was named Mary, and his earthly father was Joseph. Joseph was of the line of King David, whose line of heritage was traced back all the way to Adam and Eve. Jesus had the power to heal the sick and paralyzed, give sight to the blind, speech to the mute, and life to the dead. This may very well sound like a fairy tale, but all of this was as true and real as you and me. Jesus was the living proof of God, and was literally God on earth. Jesus was perfect in every way, and was without sin; yet the Pharisees did not like what Jesus was preaching and accused him of blasphemy. This of course was not true; because God is inerrant, and Jesus was the living and, the human version of God, he speaks no lies, nor commits any crimes. Because of the charges against Him, and the Roman Empire convinced that He was causing trouble, He was sentenced to a crucifixion. The crucifixion of

All Christians believe that Jesus is their savior, but there are many different ways his death can be interpreted. One of the ways we can look at Jesus’s death his through historical accounts. Almost all historians believe that there was a man named Jesus who had a large following, and was put to death by the Romans. But why, from a historical point of view, would Jesus be crucified? One major reason is that the Romans seen Jesus as a political threat. The Romans view order as the most important thing in their empire, and around that time there was a zealot uprising. Then, they see Jesus preaching about the coming of his “Kingdom” and so they thought that he was leading a revolution. Therefore, Jesus was executed at the hands of the Romans for being a Lestes, meaning bandit or outlaw. However, Jesus

The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God, was the most important event in all of history! The actual site where he was killed, buried and resurrected has interested Christians for hundreds of years. Of course, the fact of that significant event does not depend on locating the exact site. But it is only right that Christians would be intrigued in finding out where their Savior died—and rose from the dead.

Many people ridicule Christians for believing in a man who resurrected from the dead. They laugh at Christians and criticize them for basing their faith on an event that lack proof and evidence. However, the evidence that skeptics use to challenge the Christian faith, in actuality, support the claims that Jesus truly was the God that he claimed to be. The evidence that affirms Jesus’ claims to be true include his lifestyle and teachings, the prophecies that he fulfilled, historical facts, and the dramatic transformation of the lives of his disciples. Many may ask Christians how they can believe in a Savior without proof of his divinity; but, in reality, God has given us an abundance of signs. He is still providing us with compelling evidence

All four Gospels describe Jesus in his final week in Jerusalem. During which Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, confronted moneychangers and merchants in the temple, and debated with the high priests who questioned Jesus’ authority. He told his disciples about the coming days and that Jerusalem’s temple would be destroyed. Meanwhile, the chief priests and elders met with high priest Caiaphas, and set plans in motion to arrest Jesus. One of Jesus’ disciples’ betrayed him to the Pharisees for 30 pieces of silver. Jesus took his disciples to pray with him, but they kept falling asleep. Soldiers and officials appeared, and Judas (who betrayed Jesus) was with them. He gave Jesus a kiss on the cheek to help the Pharisee’s know who he was and the soldiers arrested Jesus. One disciple tried to resist the arrest, drew his sword and cutting off an ear of a soldier. Jesus was then interrogated by the high priest, hit and spat upon for not answering. Jesus was mocked, condemned, and beat up in a high court because he stated he was the son of God. Pilate washed his hands of the responsibility of what happened to Jesus, but ordered him to be executed. Jesus hung on a cross for three days, died, was buried in a tomb, and rose again on the third day. With his dying on the cross he took the sin of the world.

This paper is a review of the book The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach by Michael Licona. This book is comprised of pages that “investigate the question of the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection while providing unprecedented interaction with the literature of professional historians outside of the community of biblical scholars on both hermeneutical and methodological considerations.” The book is separated into five long chapters: “Chapter 1: Important Consideration pertaining to Historical Truth” , “Chapter 2: The Historians and Miracles”, “Chapter 3: Historical Sources Pertaining to the Resurrection of Christ”, “Chapter 4: The Historical Bedrock Pertaining to the Fate of Jesus”, and “Chapter 5: Weighing Hypothesis”.

I was first introduced to Jesus Christ through several Korean missionaries from America, who came to my orphanage in Russia one day. A bright green church, which is my favorite color to this day, was implanted right behind my orphanage and the people of the church went around inviting and encouraging people to join them on Sunday mornings. We were told there would be donuts and other food. Of course that would lure any orphan right off the bat. I among other children, joined the church on Sunday mornings. Maybe it was simply the donuts, but I felt accepted right away. Although I was very fond of the things we were told and taught, they appeared to be only stories to me. The stories did not become an entity or reached my heart until after I got adopted into a Christian family three years later.

Once upon a time, in a far off land lived a man named Jesus. Jesus was the Son of God. His mother was named Mary, and his earthly father was Joseph. Joseph was of the line of King David, whose line of heritage was traced back all the way to Adam and Eve. Jesus lived a life of ridicule, judgement, spirituality, love, joy, faith, and holiness. He had the power to heal the sick and paralyzed, give sight to the blind, speech to the mute, and life to the dead. This may very well sound like a fairy tale, but all of this was as true and real as you and me. Jesus was the living proof of God, and was literally God on earth. Jesus was perfect in every way, and was without sin; yet the Pharisees did not like what Jesus was preaching and accused him of

It was horrible, the worst that could ever happen was happening right there in front of my very own two eyes; my son was about to be killed. The worst part was just having to watch him get tortured and I could do nothing, absolutely nothing. The soldiers were whipping him if he fell down, they were yelling at him to move faster when he could hardly stand and they were treating him as if he was an object. This man was no object, he was a gift from God, but the people did not realize this. Jesus was indeed the son of God, our saviour and here he is getting beat up and treating like garbage. My heart was breaking every time I looked into his eyes. I could see the pain and suffering on his face and in those eyes it was horrible. Each minute that went by, it was getting closer and closer to the time that he would eventually be gone. I do not know how to live in a world where Jesus does not exist.

First, The facts ABOUT JESUS were recorded by eyewitnesses, who gave firsthand testimony the what they had seen and heard. The apostles are the closest that we will get to verifiable truths. Where it can be argued that I as 21st centrury pastor , I am believing a lie that can be argued against the apostles, for they were in a position to verify the existence of Jesus, and willing to die for him. Now people die for lies all the times, however no one dies for a lie that they can easily verify as a lie. In other words The writers were all living at the same time these events transpired, and they had personal contact with the events or with people who witnessed the events. Many people that we assume as historical, is assumed as such with things with far less evicence. We don’t have anything close to eye witness testimony on Julius Caesar. I thnk the olderst document is written something like 300 years after his death, and I think I am being generous with that, if I remember correctly… 1) Plato has about 1250 manuscript evidence, Caesar has about 950 much of them comes from Rome. BUt the bible we have

Women played a most important role in early Christianity Women’s interaction with Jesus is very crucial roles within the life and teachings of Jesus. The resurrection of two people are restored to women, Nain to his unnamed mother (Luke 7:11-17), and Lazarus to Mary and Martha (John 11:1-44). Women attend to Jesus at the cross and are the first to see the resurrection of Jesus. More specifically Jesus infers there should be no hierarchy in Christian relationships (Matthew 20:25-26). Women also played a considerable role in the formation of the church. Many early churches were home churches and the environment was provided by the women. For example, Martha becomes a church leader by offering her house as a home church and by assisting in

There is much evidence to support the argument that Jesus did not rise from the dead; many argue that Jesus was deluded when we spoke about his resurrection. Many people also considered the disciples to have experienced hallucinations and that instead of seeing their friend, they imagined it because they missed him so much. Others suggest that instead of Jesus dying on the cross, he just became unconscious and was considered dead. This could be true as medical knowledge has improved greatly over the centuries and back then they may have not been able to recognise if someone was dead or not. Finally, others though he went to the wrong tomb. In several gospels, it states that the women were so upset that they went to the wrong tomb. Some may say that

There were at least two reasons why I believe Jesus did not answer Pilate’s question, “Are you the King of the Jews?” This charge against Jesus could involve a challenge to the authority of Rome, so Pilate asked a direct question about Jesus’ kingship (Knight 2001, pg. 230).” Many times in the past there had been confusion as to Jesus’ kingship. The kind of kingship Jesus had was so very different and not just being king of the Jews. Thus, had Jesus admitted to being the King of the Jews in court, he would have admitted to being the King, which many were looking for, one who would provide deliverance against Rome and all of Israel’s adversaries. Had Jesus verbalized, “no,” he would have been lying. By the same token, it had been established,

Before the act of crucifixion, however, they forced Jesus to walk 2.5 miles, during which He suffered through great pain. He was mocked and severely beaten, and was abandoned by His friends and God Himself. This the definition of a spiritual death.

Jesus’ resurrection was the greatest miracle he has planned out and accomplished. We, Christians, must believe that Jesus died and resurrected from the dead for our salvation. Salvation is a term that means the deliverance from sin and its consequences, believed by Christians to be brought about by faith in Christ. During the resurrection, the Jews believed Jesus was there to defend and defeat their enemies. They thought wrong. Jesus needed to sacrifice his own life to save us. Everyone didn’t want him to complete this plan. They thought he was crazy and out of his mind for him to put his life on the line, but Jesus did it anyway. Whenever the Jews told him that he shouldn’t be doing this, or telling him that he shouldn’t go, he told him that it was the devil speaking through them and that they’re not thinking.