Essay about The Four Kinds of Healing Performed by Jesus

Although the Bible’s description of Jesus and his crucifixion has not been changed, the perception of the people about Jesus has been changing throughout the ages. The poem “The Dream of the Rood” is good example of a unique view of Jesus and his crucifixion. The poem is referred as “one of the first and most successful treatments of the crucifixion” in Old English poetry (Burrow 123).

‘The Kingdom of God’ is perceived in many different ways by a variety of people. It is commonly thought that it refers to a life after death namely ‘Heaven’ and Jesus seems to reinforce this by stating, "my kingdom is not of this

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

What we come to realize is that Jesus happily healed him of his sickness, but physical healing would do the man no good in the long run. Jesus wanted to give this man eternal healing. We can ask Jesus to give us all we want, but he knows that our physical needs won’t last forever. That is why He is more interested in giving us something that will last forever, a heart transformation.

Next, there are 2.18 billion Christians around the world. When talking about faith and healing for the Christian religion it occurs mystically, as the result of prayer for them, physical disease and sin are states of mind that could be corrected with prayers; but also they are given the option to choose if they want medical treatment but still some Christians would not accept medical care they prefer prayers. In the bible there are passages that have stories of Jesus curing people from illnesses, and Christians believe in those miracles.

“Who do people say that I am?” (Mark 8:27) is one of the most fundamental questions that Jesus asked his disciples. It is a question, from my personal viewpoint, that has a simple answer. Jesus is Lord! Needless to say, there is more to the identity of Jesus, but it is my belief that Jesus is the Messiah, the second person of the Holy Trinity. He is the promised Savior foretold in the Old Testament by the prophets. There is an endless list that gives Jesus titles such as Ruler and King, Master and Teacher, Savior and Christ, but in Acts 2:36 Luke writes, “God has made him both Lord and Messiah, this Jesus whom you crucified.” Jesus is the one who went to the Cross to bring humankind forgiveness, redemption, and salvation.

Jesus doesn’t come so we can go to some other place when we die, Jesus comes so that we can live a kingdom life now and share an eternal relationship with God. The kingdom of God has already been launched, was always here, and is coming soon in all its fullness. Dallas Willard identifies the Kingdom of God as the range of God’s “effective will,” where what God “wants done is done,” and that the person of God and God’s will are the organizing principles of this kingdom. Hence, he states, “everything that obeys those principles, whether by nature or choice,” is within God’s kingdom. Willard goes on to use the analogy of electricity to describe the kingdom. The kingdom of God has existed with humanity since the beginning, just as electricity has. When humanity figured out how to harness electricity, it changed everything. Electricity became not just a flash in the sky, but something we can plug into. The entire universe is hard-wired with God’s kingdom. In Christ, the kingdom that has always been is accessible in a new way. Through faith in Jesus we can now plug in and translate our ordinary life, into an eternal

However, in order to live a Christian life, people must look up to Jesus as a “perfect” example of living life. Jesus had been oppressed when explaining the spiritual kingdom of God instead of human interpretations with the physical kingdom of God. The physical kingdom of God is based on human beliefs; the spiritual kingdom of God is based on God himself because the Holy Spirit is a part of his character. The problem with the world is that they interpret God as an evil,

Jeffery L. Sheler talks about Jesus in the article, Who was Jesus, “Today, as in his own time, Jesus of Nazareth remains one of history's most intriguing and enigmatic figures”(7). Even today Jesus is known greatly, still influencing religion in a positive way. God is a very popular figure and he used that to influence what Jesus was preaching to us. An example that Jeffery L. Sheler has in the article, Who was Jesus, says, “His death, and the testimony of his followers that he arose from the dead, would change the course of history”(4). Jesus and his followers would change our history, which is our time period and that he did. Jesus changed the future of religion, but it also changed how people saw their own religion. Jeffery L. Sheler in the article, Who was Jesus says, ”Unembellished by nearly 2,000 years of church devotional tradition”(2). Some are still practicing the teachings that Jesus sent to us even if it was sent a long time ago. The devotional tradition means the tradition of the church with Jesus. Overall, the era that Jesus was born in and the time period right now was greatly affected by him because of all the people that Jesus influenced to learn the right way of

The Kingdom may exist in the individual human heart, in groups, in institutions, and in nature. The Kingdom of God is as broad and as overarching as the presence of God which renews and transforms and recreates everything touched by it.

As a general articulation, there is very little contention that would emerge when one expresses that lying is wrong. However, when proffered theoretical circumstances start to crawl further into different circumstances, people will start to dodge and legitimize why lying would be satisfactory in specific circumstances.

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

In antiquity, historical thought was not what we would recognize as history today. Those who lived alongside Jesus, or wrote about Him in contemporary times were not concerned so much with what “was” but with what “ought to have been.” They wrote biographies with some sort of pre-conceived posture of who Jesus was, and molded the story to present that character. This was not seen as dishonest in ancient times; in fact, it was considered the truest of histories.

The second sign that Jesus performed in the book of John is the healing of the nobleman’s son (4:46¬–54). This sign is more easily found because Jesus here calls out the nobleman, saying that unless he sees “signs and miracles,” he simply won’t believe (v.48). In this passage, an official comes to Jesus asking him to heal his son. However, the official wants Jesus to go to his house. Jesus decides to answer his request but in a different way. Instead of going to the man’s house, Jesus simply told him that if he believed and went home, his son would be healed. The official did as told, and his son was healed. Jesus performed another miracle, but how is his deity displayed. Jesus shows his deity here by healing the official’s son by simply speaking and not seeing nor touching. During this time, just like every other time in history, there have been doctors. If Jesus went to the official’s house and healed the boy, it could be possible that Jesus would be viewed as such. However, since Jesus did the miracle just by spoken word, his power must be great. In fact, He must be God.

be among His people in a special way. Jesus called this special way the Kingdom of God. He warned His listeners to repent their sinful ways to be ready for the approaching Kingdom of God. In urging