Words To Describe Jesus In The New Testament

Jesus and the Disinherited begins the first chapter with the interpretation of Jesus. Dr. Thurman explained that Jesus was a poor Jew and was a minority in the midst of a dominate society. Dr. Thurman gives his analysis on the worldviews Jesus. People around the world have their own interpretation of Jesus; yet, people have an orthodox view of him being fully God and fully man. In chapter one, the author references the nonviolent resistance approach, which is a tactic Dr. Martin Luther King Jr used in the civil rights movements. He interprets Jesus as a black man who lived his life as an outsider in the world. Jesus was the disinherited and oppressed like African Americans.

Chapter two discusses what makes Jesus so different and what makes people uncomfortable making him the topic of conversation. McDowell happened to run across the actual meaning of the name Jesus Christ or as some may refer to “the deity of Christ.” The name Jesus was derived from the Greek name Jeshua or Joshua meaning “Jehoviah-Savior” or “the lord saves.” Christ is also from the Greek language meaning Messiah or Mashiach from the Hebrew language which stands for the anointed one.

The Christ of Christianity made radical claims in regards to his relationship to Judaism. Jesus was no timid Jewish rabbi. He claimed that he was the fulfillment of the entire Jewish Tanakh! Luke quotes the Christ as saying, “all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” (Luke 24:44) Jesus reinterpreted Jewish symbols and re-applied them to himself. (Wilson, 55) The many followers of Jesus today are still offending Jews by claiming that the Jewish religion is incomplete and no longer salvific without the incorporation of the Christ. Modern Jews reject the application of the prophecies

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.

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.

Many people have asked the question what did Jesus look like, was he tall, short, shaved or bearded. Did he look different from everyone else? No one truly knows what the savior looks like because there is nothing in the bible that gives a description of Jesus. But throughout the centuries people have created images of what the Son of God through the eyes of the people of their time in order to keep the faith and to educate and reflect how things were.

An prophetic figure common to both the Bible and the Qur’an is Jesus, however, Jesus is presented in a different ways in both texts. Sometimes the differences are subtle and sometimes more radical. The New Testament stories about Jesus from primary sources, such as his disciples. The Qur’an was written much later in the time of Mohammad in approximately 650 AD and Jesus’ life, and its power, comes from received wisdom diluted by generations of people.

Who is Jesus? In Matthew 16:13-20 Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of

Their Christology was influenced by the ambient Hellenistic cosmology according to which the cosmic reality consisted of heaven, earth and the underworld (Cf. Phil 2:5-10). This influence results in the threefold division of Jesus’ existence being, his pre-existence (v.6), his becoming flesh in the incarnation (vv.7-8) and his final exaltation following his death and resurrection (vv.9-10). From the Gospel of John the Son of man was portrayed as “ the one who descended from heaven” ( Cf. Jn. 3:13). The proper name for Jesus and the Son of God to this community took on a higher meaning and the title Lord became central in addressing Jesus. With their Greek background, Christ was confessed as the eternal Logos who the author of the Gospel of

Obadiah, a book of the Minor Prophets written by Obadiah after the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon in 586 B.C., portrays Jesus as our Savior. It is a judgment again the Children of Esau, the Edomites. Edom had sinned against God by her pride and self-sufficiency. They put their trust in their allies and not on God and saw their wisdom, wealth, geography and political maneuvering as being enough to sustain them. But, even more grievous, was Edom’s hatred of her kindred, the Israelites. Jacob and Esau had had a troubled relationship, but had put their differences behind them. Esau’s descendants were not so forgiving over the loss of a rich birthright. They delighted in Israel’s hardships and wished for her destruction. When Jerusalem

Occasion of Jesus' calling: Jesus saw him siting at a tax collector booth and said to him to follow him and he got up and followed Christ.

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.

The title "Christ" is used most often for Jesus in throughout Luke and Acts. “Christ” also served as foundation in constructing Jesus’s journey from earth to him being exalted [1, pg 14]. It refers to Jesus as the Anointed One of the Lord, the Messiah. The title was first used in Luke 2:11, and the strength of this title was clearly outlined in Luke 1:31-35, which described the role of Jesus as the Messiah. Stating that he was the royal figure promised