Being a Christian and a student of Communications, I felt compelled to reading The Case for Christ. I decided to use this book for this review especially due to the large amount of criticisms and backlash it had received. Lee Strobel is known for being a hard-nosed skeptical journalist and ex-investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune. He also described himself as a "former spiritual skeptic" before his personal mission for the proof of God. Skeptics around the world claim that Jesus either never said He was God or He never exemplified the activities and mindset of God. Either way they rather triumphantly proclaim that Jesus was just a man. Some will go so far as to suggest that He was a very moral and special man, but a man nonetheless. For Strobel, there was far too much evidence against the idea of God, let alone the possibility that God became a man. God was just mythology, superstition, or wishful thinking.…
Although Jesus was God, he took the nature of a humble, obedient human servant. This obedience even took him to the point of death on a cross for the salvation of humankind.…
The nobleman besought Jesus that he would heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Jesus said unto him "Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way." His servants met him and confirmed that his son was alive. This sign miracle reveals the deity of Christ because it shows that the power of Christ is not limited by space. This miracle also reveals Christ deity because it manifested the power of his spoken word.…
Jesus is worshiped by the people and they believed that he is the one to help them learn…
Jesus of Nazareth was born in a Jewish family, raised under Jewish law. The most audacious claim Jesus would ever state was that he was the Messiah and stating that he was God’s son. After Jesus’ death, his apostles spread his teachings throughout the Ancient world. The teachings of Jesus of Nazareth spread across the Classical world because it provided hope for all it’s followers, taught a doctrine of nonviolence, and because it invited all people of ethnic backgrounds.…
Although not very important, I took the liberty this past month(Black History) to document my research to the age old question, "Was Jesus Black," after a small debate with my auntie Angelina Quarterman arguing that He was a Jew, and Jews are White(lol). The typical Hollywood image in which ancient Israelites look like fair-haired White Americans is way off the mark. The people of the bible were Semitic(Afro-Asiatic languages) and would have been dark- skinned. The racial emnity & equating Black with evil was an unfortunate development in later Europe, devised in part to justify African slavery.…
As a follower of Christ it is not merely what He taught, but who the person of Jesus Christ claimed to be and what he practiced while He was here on earth that convinces me of who He is. Dr Towns explains it this way on page 2; “ Jesus Christ affirmed his deity by applying to Himself the statement of Jehovah, ‘I am’”. Jesus was equating Himself with God. Additionally, as a man, He was the carbon copy of God in His attributes. In Matthew & John, Jesus proclaimed to be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful. Jesus made statements establishing Himself as indistinguishable from God. But the most sovereign declaration Jesus made was about forgiving sins, which is found in Luke 5. It is the story of Jesus healing the paralyzed man, starting in verse 20 “When Jesus saw their faith, he said, ‘Friend, your sins are forgiven.’ 21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, ‘Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?’ 22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, ‘Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24 But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.’” God and God alone can forgive sins.…
Throughout my readings of Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography by John Crossan, I went in with somewhat low expectations. My reason for this was that the topic of religion, christianity especially was something I did not have too much care for. After finishing the book however, it did enlighten some questions I had on the religion. One answer that came into light when I read the book was concerning the gospels and testaments. I wonder why was there a need to have so many different variants, with minor differences in between them. As I went through the book, it becomes a bit more clear to me, as combining the different perspectives of Christianity will allow for a great combined experience. The second thing that was a bit more clear was on the topic of other great Christian tales such as the tale with Moses and how it relates to Jesus.…
If there is one thing that modern literature and films do well it is to expose the villain. In the New Testament, Judas is represented as the betrayer of Jesus Christ. He is one of the twelve Apostles, the one who sold Jesus Christ out for thirty pieces of silver, and identified him with solely a kiss on the cheek. Later, crazed with guilt, Judas was said to have hung himself (Gospel of Matthew). He is the ultimate symbol of treachery and betrayal. Christianity would never have been the same without its ‘traitor’. After nearly two-thousand years the most hated man in history has returned, and this time it is through the eyes on the National Geographic Societies documentary, The Gospel of Judas. His depiction is viewed in a different light other than what the entire world has known throughout the ages.…
Over the last seventeen centuries, Christianity has focused on Jesus as the Messiah, the Savior of us all, who was born to save us, and died cruelly on the cross to save us. There is another interpretation of the meaning of his life as well. . In addition, it has been widely believed in organized Christianity that Jesus' death on the cross was ordained by God as a means of saving humankind, but this belief only grew through the teachings of Paul. Too many today, Jesus is seen as a prophet, from the long line of Jewish prophets, going back to Samuel in King David's time.…
In today's culture the Christian gospel is perceived as being of the good news of Gods grace and mercy that he had bestowed over our lives. It relays a message that God died from our sins they we may be saved and dwell in the house of The Lord.…
God is a God of reason and does nothing without a reason. Jesus was sent to earth by God for a reason, which He began and completed. A comprehension of this reason will help you to admire the happening to Christ and His main goal on earth.…
Around two thousand years ago, Jesus, an educator, exemplified the fully committed and effective servant leader (Blanchard, 2010, p261). John C. Maxwell (2007) mentions that Apostle Paul used Jesus as the ultimate example of servant leadership (p. 1472). The book of Philippians, chapter two verses two through eleven (Philippians 2:2-11, New King James Version), discussed how Paul encourages his audience to be humble and live selflessly; he reminds them of how Christ was the ultimate leader who made the ultimate sacrifice (Maxwell, 2007, p. 1473). Maxwell (2007) goes on to say that Jesus stepped through six levels as He moved downward toward us; he gave up His divine form, He emptied Himself of any rights, He became a man, He became a servant, He was obedient to the point of death, and He died a terrible kind of death (p. 1473). Basically, one could say that Jesus relinquished the glory that He had due to the fact that he was deity and He lacked recognition and glory to/by unbelievers while He was on earth. He also took the form of a servant by becoming as a servant to man and He appeared in the form of man so that He could die for our sins.…
Jesus became a travelling preacher; however he never travelled too far from his homeland and never did anything extraordinary. As Jesus continued preaching about the kingdom of God, the crowds grew larger and began to proclaim him as the son of David and as the Messiah.…
Around 27 BC a man by the name of Jesus of Nazareth came to be the son of God. Claiming that he was of the very essence and character of God, he astounded hundreds of followers. Among his miracles performed included feeding five thousand of his followers with only a few loaves of bread and a few pieces of fish. In our modern era, people still believe of his works and in his preaching about love. Many international leaders, such as Woodrow Wilson and Mother Theresa lived by his teachings.…