The Miracles of Jesus Christ

The film Miracle is about the U.S men’s ice hockey team winning the 1980 gold metal for the Winter Olympics, led by head coach Herb Brooks. Miracle was fairly accurate with its historic content during the course of the movie. The director Gavin O’Connor did a good job tying in historical and political background that brought the film together, which made it unique to other sport films. In the beginning of the film there was a sequence highlighting the historical events that lead up to the 1980 Winter Olympics. Miracle specifically opened up with the historical footage against the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Our country endured the time where it was divided because of the support of the Vietnam War. To make

3. Equally important to the first parallel, Thomas writes in verse 31 “Jesus said, "No prophet is welcome in his own village; no physician cures those who know him." Similarly, the author of John 4:44 records “(for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country).” As stated earlier, Thomas has no specific timeline. John’s proverb sits in the context of when Jesus returns to Galilee. Galilee was a country that sits on top of Judea. Nazareth is in the lower part of Galilee. It is known that Jesus was born in Nazareth, but travelled to upper Galilee because he knew the residents there would receive him warmly as they heard of his miracles. Although this statement is ironic when first reading it, it corresponds with the fact that he is from Nazareth; there was no welcome committee to when he began to give God’s words to the residents. It is with assumption that the residents of Nazareth belittled him and did not believe until he performed his phenomenon. This can also be interpreted as although one can be infamous within one’s city or country, but when leaving the city or country that one person is better known outside, as the residents in town will speak about said person until it

Doctors, churches and government were powerless against the disease. The only way to escape the infection was to avoid contact with infected persons and contaminated objects.(paraphrase) (Therefore, some cities set up the policy to prevent strangers from entering their cities, particularly, merchants and Jews. The discrimination of Jewish population became another major problem. The people laid the blame of the plague at the feet of the Jews.)

The spiritual significance of illness and suffering is a topic Christians continue to grapple with, as Larchet points out in The Theology of Illness. Scripture offers a wealth of wisdom and cues for understanding illness, health, and healing from a Christian perspective. Larchet analyzes the various and often contradictory Christian positions on health and illness, revealing how attitudes have shifted over time and with changes in medical technology, practice, and ethics. For example, St. Barsanuphius presents a comprehensive analysis of the spiritual significance of illness and suffering. One view holds that illness signifies a lack of faith; another presents illness in terms of a person who is offered the opportunity to develop a stronger faith, or whose faith is being put to a test like the story of Job. Ultimately, the latter remains the most helpful way to approach illness and healing from a Christian perspective. The essence of Christian health care is that, "Healing itself, while resulting from natural processes, actually comes from God," (Larchet 116).

“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1 KJV). This familiar passage of scripture recorded in the Gospel of John indicates the deity and or preexistence of Jesus Christ prior to time as we know it and before the creation of earth. The strongest proof that the Lord Jesus Christ is God are the divine attributes, divine names, divine works, divine worship, divine claims and divine relationship ascribed to Him.

Leprosy is a terrible disease that brings about terrible suffering and death. People did not realize that it was contagious. The Bible talks about sending anyone with disease to the outside of the city to prevent the spread of the infection. The quarantine methods saved thousands of people from contacting it. God made a promise to Moses

Other groups that suffered this persecution and blame in the Black Death era were lepers, those of any other physical deformity, and beggars. Lepers were often associated with the Jews in the well poisoning theory, and after some confessions of the deed were announced (coerced through torture of course), many were also burned at the stake. However, this pertained to only lepers of lower social class, as “high-born lepers… were no more inconvenienced than were noble bastards or pederasts… they could continue to perform their offices and live among healthy people” (Le Goff 321), this was not the case for any upper classmen of the Jewish community. The extremist Christianity at the time period dictated that those with physical ailments or sicknesses were rightfully punished by God; they were afflicted with a proper reflection of their inward sin. When it began to appear to the people that God was punishing society as a whole, they blamed those they felt had brought the sin upon them. And so while the Jews were driven out of most towns as a fault for the plague, others expelled the poor and the maimed for the epidemic.

Miracles by C.S Lewis centers on miracles in his book he wrote about the ‘’Grand Miracle’’ which can be found in chapter 14. He mentioned how these miracles and other biblical stories have influenced the Christian worldview. In the sense that Miracle as laid this foundation for Christians and their basic makeup of the world. He stated his views about miracles he believes there are two ways we can view and interpret miracles which is nature and supernature. ‘’ The fitness or credibility, of the Grand miracle itself cannot obviously, be judged by the same standard (page 174).’’ The people who view miracles from a supernatural perspective accept that there is an empirical proof which is not just clear in history that can validate all the importance of the ‘’Grand Miracle’’ that the Christian religion believe exist. While the people who view miracles using the natural perspective disagree that there is no any empirical proof. Most people in the 21st century believe that these biblical miracles really happened and some believe it did not happen. Thinking in the 21st century Lewis centers his book on the fact

Although, the procedures listed in Leviticus was necessary to contain the disease; sickness was never God’s plan for us but this is a result of sin. It was concluded in Leviticus chapter 13 and 14 that patients with the diagnosis of Leprosy were isolated from society in biblical days (Zondervan, n.d.). However, O’Brien states “Blessed are the home care nurses who minister to the lonely and isolated, for they will be shown mercy” (2006, p.85) which emphasizes God plan for man not to me

After these events took place, Jesus leaves to begin his preaching. In doing so, he also chooses his disciples while walking along the Sea of Galilee. Jesus took his disciples with him through Galilee and began his preaching there. He healed the sick and suffering, and also performed

Leprosy was one of the greatest concerns during the middle ages. Many people feared catching this disease, and those who had this disease were usually cast out. These

Throughout the book of John, Jesus did many signs and miracles. Through these signs, Jesus attempted to show both the multitudes as well as his disciples one small truth about Him—His is God. In this gospel, Jesus goes toe-to-toe with many of the Jewish spiritual leaders (i.e., Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, etc.) in order to show the people who He truly is. Scholars disagree with how many Messianic signs Jesus performed, but one thing remains—every single sign pointed back to the fact that Jesus was who He claimed to be. The signs performed by Jesus show both the Israelites of old, as well as the people of today, that He is, indeed, God.

The Immediate context of the story helps to show us that Jesus is on a journey, before this passage in Matthew 5:1 he begins teaching great multitudes on a unnamed mountain. When he comes down from the mountain (Matthew 8:1) the multitudes are still following him as he cleanses a leper (Matthew 8:2-4)

The centurion’s response demonstrated that his faith is on the person of Jesus, and his authority. The healing miracle doesn’t rely on any specific mantra, any specific gesture or ritual, but on the willing of Jesus, he is the Lord.

The theme for this year, 2016, is the theme of Mercy. Mercy is often portrayed or defined as an act of righteousness expressed by one individual toward another and can be shown or expressed through words and actions of compassion, forgiveness, hospitality etc. The theme of Mercy is known to be significant toward the original audience, also known as the wealthy, educated and good living Gentile Christians. This is a significant theme for the Gentile Christian audience because they were known to have often refused to assist the poor and needy during their time and therefore needed to make changes to that by using the theme of Mercy. The theme of Mercy is also significant toward the modern day audience, or the audience we have today. This is because we live in a time when our societies’ requirements has become more stricken with new laws and rules which has started to prevent us from assisting to those who need an act of Mercy the most. The implications the theme of Mercy has is that the Church today has become more united and diverse compared to the Church in the past (Since there was stronger social prejudice during Jesus’ time), which means that our faith has grown stronger as time passed and has bonded us stronger together as one family. The importance of the theme of Mercy on people’s thoughts, experiences and beliefs is