Jesus In The Bible: Who Was Jesus

Firstly, Jesus was Jewish and he would teach in different synagogues throughout the villages he travelled to. While in those villages Jesus would also heal those who were suffering. In his teachings he touched the hearts of the people and this created instability which frightened Jewish religious authorities. A group of men who Jesus touched started to follow and became his disciples. Jesus taught them about the will of God; as well as about a “new covenant” that God will bring to humanity through Himself, Jesus Christ.

Messiah/Christ: In the Christian religion, the Messiah was a savoir who would bring the “Last Judgment.” They believed that Jesus, or Christ meaning “God’s anointed” in Greek, was this savior.

Jesus is known by many titles, perhaps most importantly the Savior of the world. Jesus Christ was sent to this earth to pay the price for all of humanities’ sins. According to Merrick, (2015). Scriptures primarily focus on His ministry as an adult however, there is an account of Jesus reading scriptures in the synagogue. Jesus was also known as the Messiah, or anointed one. This title gives further explanation to His divinity and supreme rule. Jesus was also known to be both man and God. This truth is significant because as (Merrick, 2015a) states “one beholds what all human life should look like.” (Section The Image of the Invisible God, para. 1). Bowen, (2014) gave a great explanation of Jesus when he said “This Jesus holds together the atoms in our bodies, keeps the laws of physics constant. Those individuals who believe the earth’s existence and beginning is a scientific occurrence can learn a bit more about the role Jesus played in the

Jesus represents different views in relation to the doctrine of Christianity and Judaism. According to Christianity doctrine, Jesus Christ represents the Son of God who came to deliver man from manifestation of sins. Jesus Christ is one with the creator in relation to the teachings of Christianity. He is the Messiah whom founding fathers of Judaism proclaimed would come to wash away the sins of humanity. According to Judaism, Jesus represents a false Messiah playing a secondary role to the founding fathers of the faith and religious institutions. According to the gospel by John, Jesus was there at the beginning in the form of the word. Jesus was with God and considered Creator (God). In understanding the relationship of Jesus and humanity, it is crucial to determine both divine and fully human nature of the Son of God. As the Son of Man, Jesus was born of Mary and Joseph. These represent his human roots in the process of delivering human beings from their sins. As the Son of God, he represents one of the trinity beliefs within the teachings of Christianity.

The gospel of Mark is a short recollection of Jesus life, it has many details but is missing pieces or additions to his life. The Gospel of mark was said to have lost pieces, and also the first account of Jesus life. Although it is not as detailed in some areas as it is in others, it tells many accounts of Jesus life on earth and what kind of a person he was, the life he lived, his struggles and his ending.

Everyone in this world is entitled to his or her own opinion. Each individual has a different point of view for something; no one’s opinion is right or is wrong. For me, I find it very interesting to listen to someone else’s opinion that is different than mine. However, there are others who have their own opinion, and they do not believe or even want to take into consideration what other peoples’ opinion is. This is how the religious leaders were in the book of Matthew.

The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by J.K Beilby and P.R Eddy is a most interesting book to say the least. This is a great book to be introduced into the world of the historical Jesus. Along with the editors we have five contributors hence the name “Five Views”. This includes Robert M. Price, J.D Crossan, Luke Timothy Johnson, D.G Dunn and Darrel L. Bock. Each contributor presents their own views of the historical Jesus presented in the gospels and what they believe.

A messiah is a rather ambiguous term. It mainly means an anointed one; usually a messiah is considered to be a son of David and would reestablish Israel to what it once was. Because messiahs are anointed ones they would typically be Jewish priests, prophets and kings. However, a Messiah can also be a warrior, or a man of peace. (CITE) A messiah was to reestablish unity among the Jewish people and navigate through the hardships and oppression that they went through during early Judaism and bring a sense of freedom and relief. An array of messianic claimants came forth during the two peaks of Jewish rebellion, the death of King Herod the Great and the first Jewish war against the Romans.

Jesus made people change their beliefs and follow the positive ways of life. He assisted those who were weak in their spiritual lifetime and saved them from their sins. Jesus suffered and died for man’s sins which set each person free from their original sin. He taught them what their expected to do and how to live a sin free live. Followers of Jesus realized that he was their savior. His death was an exact sign of a true savior who people believed in.

The Gospel of Mark assigns Jesus to three roles that identifies Jesus as the Son of Man who is an earthly figure that instructs with power, the Son of Man, who serves on earth as a servant who accepts suffering and a future eschatological judge, the Son of Man, who will be made known to others as a coming judge in eschatological judgment (Harris, 2014, p.147). Interestingly, Mark portrayed Jesus as the Son of Man for the purpose of informing others that Jesus is a servant who must suffer and die before ascending to heaven. The concept “Son of Man” appears in the Book of Ezekiel as it closely associates to the words “mortal or “human being”, normally the prophet himself. In the Book of Daniel, “one like a son of man” is viewed as a heavenly

The relationship that Paul seems to think best describes the union between the church and Christ in the book of Ephesians is marriage (Harris, 2014). He compares this by sharing that man is head of the woman, just as Christ is head of the church. Also, Paul tells us that we are to conduct ourselves with high moral standards. In fact, we should have an order in our life and be respectful the same in our homes as we are in God’s house. The author of the book of Ephesians goes on to remind the men that they must love their wives and always honor them just as Christ does with the church. However, we must also take into consideration each relationship that we are involved in to make sure that we apply God’s love to each one.

Now-a-days it seems like religion has become somewhat of a taboo. It has fallen on the back burners, pushed behind things such as famous actors that people look up to or things portrayed in the media. The thing is, the most important figure in history is part of religion and should be revered much more than the idolized actors of today. The human population has become blind to spiritual life and has become engulfed by a social lifestyle. If you look around, people have forgotten what it’s like to know Jesus and any aspect of religion. Religion is the biggest part of any person’s life because it is the building block for everything we have.

One of the things I found most interesting about the book of Mark, is that Jesus is not God's son until after he is baptized. In every other Gospel they talk about Jesus being God's son from the beginning. It makes me wonder if Mark's author did that on purpose? If it was on purpose then it leads to that for Mark's author it was important for Jesus to be human first before he was divine; just like it is important for the other gospels to have Jesus be divine before he was human, or at the same time. Another reason why it is interesting because it really changes the whole story of Jesus for those who have only heard Mark, it might lead them to doubt if Jesus is real, or that the other gospels are false. I would like to have been there

In addition, Luke presents the perfect, divine Son of God as our great High Priest, touched with the feeling of our infirmities, able to extend help, mercy, and love to us. Luke wrote to his countrymen, to the Greek mind and to the intellectual community. Moreover, the religion of Israel could produce only a Pharisee, the power of Rome could produce only a Caesar, and the philosophy of Greece could produce only global giant like Alexander the Great who was merely an infant at heart. Thus, it was to this Greek mind that Luke wrote. He presented Jesus Christ as the perfect Man, the universal Man, the very person the Greeks were looking for. Through this paper using the Gospel of Luke I will try to convey the best understanding of Jesus fulfilling

Earlier in the Book of Hebrews the writer mentions that Christ was made above the angles but yet he was lower than them because he took on the sins of the world. He was made mortal so that he could go through these thing for us. There is no greater hope then the unending love that Jesus has for the people of