Jesus The Evangelist

The term that is used in St. John’s Gospel to describe the second person of the Blessed Trinity is “Word”

With the emergence of the television evangelist we have witnessed the rise of the prosperity gospel which promises that Jesus will assist you to live out the American dream of worldly success, wealth, health, and prosperity. In just viewing the title of this book which highlights the gospel and success you have to take a deep breath because just looking at the cover it appears that the book promotes the gospel of success. However, this book by Kirbyjon Caldwell describes a pathway to holistic salvation. In addition, God wants his children to experience salvation in every area of their lives. Kirbyjon Caldwell writes this book to demonstrate how to use the principles of holistic Salvation because God wants you to be successful in all areas of

John Dominic Crossan is a well-renowned scholar of the historical Jesus, so one would expect his book to be full of some of the best scholarship on the topic. He provides a way to humanize Jesus and explain whom he was, and what his world looked like at the time. However, despite his ability to bring Jesus to life on the page, he skips over several large ideas, thus leaving much to be desired. While his book, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, does a good job as an introduction to the historical Jesus, it leaves the reader wanting more out of it than what he provided. This book review functions with two parts. In the first part, I discuss how Crossan seems to provide a shallow investigation on women and what they meant to Jesus and his followers.

The Gospels are stories of Jesus’ life and teachings, told by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in the first four books of the New Testament. There is little difference between the first three, they tell the same stories of jesus but with slight differences. But the gospel of John, the gospel that traditionally appears fourth in the new testament, has many differences to the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. They are used to spread the teachings of jesus, and give us guidance in our lives. ‘Gospel’ is derived from the old english, ‘god-spel’, (‘god’-’good’, ‘spel’- ‘news’). The gospel literally translates to ‘good news’.

The Jesus Paper. Question 1. John’s purpose in writing the gospel is so that people might believe “that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing, [one] may have life in his name” (Jn. 20:31). So, the essential identity of Jesus is “the Christ” which is a Greek word for “chosen one” or “anointed one.”

Unlike the other gospels, Jesus is portrayed as deity; the Word became flesh and dwelled among men. The Synoptics cannot compare with the Gospel of John when it comes to the incarnation. Opposite of Mark’s fast paced account of the events of Jesus;

Explanation: The Gospel of John begins like no other. It begins, not at Jesus’ birth, not at the time of the prophets, not even at Adam, but in the very beginning, before there was anything. Anything, that is, except God and the Word who was God. John introduces this Word as the light and the life and the creator of everything. And yet his own creation did not know him. At this point, the man whom Jesus called the greatest prophet of all (Luke 7:28) is introduced: John the Baptist. He came to wake the world up to see their creator that had come to them. Truly, he came to “prepare the way of the Lord” (Isaiah 40:3), a light to testify of the Light that was even already come. John’s role was to open the eyes of the world to see the Christ that had come: the Savior they did not recognize or receive, the Light they,

Most people with a general understanding of the Bible know that the first four books of the New Testament are called the Gospels. Most people also understand on a broad level that the Gospel seach tell the story of Jesus Christ -- His birth, ministry, teachings, miracles, death, and returning from the dead. What many people don't know, however, is that there's a striking difference between the first three Gospels -- Matthew, Mark, and Luke, which are known together as the Synoptic Gospels --and the Gospel of John. In fact, the Gospel of John is so (like nothing else in the world) that 90 percent of the material it contains (related to/looking at/thinking about) Jesus' life cannot be found in the other Gospels.

The Gospel of John beautifully displays the life of Christ through the signs that He performed. The “I AM” statements show the character of Christ that we all should follow. The ultimate theme of John petitions the unbeliever to come unto the knowledge of truth through Him. I am so glad we serve a God of second

The Gospel of John was called the divine gospel by Clement of Alexandria, and Maximus the Confessor praised it for being “theology itself.” The Gospel of John presents the relationship between the Father and the Son as paradigmatic for the relationship between God and believer, as mediated through Jesus Christ. In Jn 5:17, Christ equates himself with the Father when he says, “My Father is still working and I also am working.” He emphasizes this saying, “just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes” (Jn 5:21). The Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son” (Jn 5:22). This equality with God shows the relationship of Christ with God the Father, and also later on becomes

Johannine literature truly portrays Jesus as God, with the theme of His deity interwoven throughout numerous passages. In this respect, John’s style differs from the other four gospels, as Bickel & Jantz (1998) point out that the other three had been written prior to John’s gospel, therefore, “he wasn’t interested in just retelling the events” (p. 222). Since Jesus is the focal point of Scripture, a scholar of the New Testament with uncertainty concerning Jesus’ oneness with God will fail to perceive the crux of Christianity. Therefore, in spite of its importance, John does not focus on Jesus’ entrance into the

What is Gospel? The people usually think the Fourth Gospel that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and it is all about Jesus. In the ancient Hellenistic time, the Gospels were regarded as biographies of Jesus (Boring, 508). If Jonathan Z. Smith represents “a son of God” as Jesus in his definition, I do not think the Gospel is only the story of Jesus, a son of God. While Jesus appears in every scene of Gospel, Jesus himself is not the main object of the Gospel. But I acknowledge that Jesus is the important character in the Gospel because God reveals himself through Jesus, and Jesus reveals himself as the Christ (Boring, 509). Boring said that the structure of the Gospel is not talking about Jesus’s life, but it is “who Jesus is in the plan of God” (Boring, 510). Dr. Smith’s definition seems like only focusing on Jesus as a son of God. However, I would like to emphasize God and God’s work through Jesus the Christ in the Gospel rather than Jesus as a son of God. If only focusing on Jesus, we can easily miss God’s works in the believer’s life and the community in the Gospel. And also, it is easy to think Jesus as only human being. I believe that Jesus, a son of God, cannot be explained

Jesus said He is the only way to God (John 10:7-9; 14:6; Acts 4:12) because He is the truth that reveals who God is (John 1:14, 17; 18:37; Rev. 3:7; 19:11), and He alone possesses the life of God (John 1:4; 5:26; 11:25; 1 John 1; 5:20). This is the exclusivity of the gospel—that Jesus

To unify the body Jesus came; to unify man with God again Jesus came. I Thessalonians 1:5 our Gospel came not unto you in Word only but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance.

I John 5:7-8 says, “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.” These three are all God and allow God to future His reach out on to His people.