In Chapter II of The Gnostic Gospels, “One God, One Bishop”, Pagels outline how the Orthodox Christians seek to exclude the Gnostics with a creed that confirms one true God. Pagels intent is to describe how both religions differentiate in their meaning of how God shows his sovereignty. The creed was to help identify the Orthodox from the Gnostics “by confessing one God, who is both “Father Almighty” and “Maker of heaven and earth” (28). The Gnostics claim the Orthodox Christians worship a false God because of their “all-good” God creating a fallen world. Through discovering texts in history, Pagels support a claim from Marcion (a dualist) who believes there are two different Gods.
God wanted to show man that he too can sacrifice and suffer; therefore he sent Jesus down to dwell among man to show man that God can be flesh. Jesus differs from man in that, he is the word of God and was sent by God as an example of himself for man. Jesus did not have the same flaw of curiosity as man had. Jesus was able to teach and spread God’s word without doubting its context. Jesus was believed to be the Messiah that the people of Israel wanted to free them from slavery.
After the American Revolution the American society had been fundamentally changed. The Revolution changed the American society in the political, social, and economic fields. After breaking away from what appeared to be a corrupt government in England, American leaders formed the concepts of their ideal society. The American Revolution succeeding in accomplished the securing of rights for the citizens of America, however by not creating a sound economic base, the Revolution failed by not ensuring that the new government would be strong enough to protect rights.
They were both speaking of how one is to be ‘born again’ in order to see the kingdom of God. After the discussion, Jesus goes into the Judean countryside, where John the Baptist was baptizing. Seeing that Christ was baptizing
For instance, Jesus (Prophet Isa) is a figure who plays a role in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism but is ‘seen’ different to one another based on our interpretations of his qualities and historical texts. Realizing that I know everything about who Jesus (Prophet Isa) was, why he was created, and his existence in Islam as a Muslim, I wanted to learn and expand my knowledge on what Christians beliefs were on Jesus. Therefore, reading the book
The chapters go through Jesus’ arrest, crucifixion and resurrection. Context: Historical – John the gospel was written somewhere between A.D. 70-100. John most likely wrote his gospel in Ephesus in Asia Minor, which at the time was one of the most important urban centers of the Roman Empire. This book was written for an audience of both Jews and Gentiles.
The book of John focuses on its own idea that is different from the other three books. It closely captures the idea of Jesus being the Messiah. John shows that “Jesus is the Christ” by highlighting Jesus’ miracles as examples. Miracles are events that can be understood by scientific law. They thus are thought to have come from a higher power.
The Gospels Matthew and John are similar when it comes to Jesus’ life on Earth, in the sense that main events happen in both Gospels, but they are also different in varying ways. An important event that occurred in both Gospels was the time span of Jesus’ ministry. When it comes to the Gospel of Matthew, he only illustrated that Jesus’ ministry lasted only for a single year. Whereas, the Gospel John prolongs his story over a span of three Passovers. For instance, there was only one visit Jesus made to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover in Matthew chapter two verse one, which states, “In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem” (Coogan, 1749).
As I did research on the book of Acts, I found out that Luke actually wrote this book. Some say that the book of Acts is almost like a sequel or a continuation on the Gospel of Luke. Like the the book of Luke, it is also addressed to the same man which is Theophilus. Even though the author was not identified by name in either book, the opinion of the majority of early Christians and the supporting evidence from within the two books do in fact point to Luke. The Holy Spirit inspired Luke to write to Theophilus to fill a need in the church-- specifically to the first Gentile Christians throughout the middle-eastern and Mediterranean regions of the Roman Empire.
The Bible is a classical of Catholicism and Christian. It is combined by the old testament and the new testament. It was first written and confirmed in Hebrew (the old testament) from about 1500BC to the first century. The new testament was written from the end of the first century. Catholic and Christian fought for it, especially through the Reformation.
In Mark’s gospel we get a clear picture of who Jesus was. Mark opens his gospel by saying “The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet” (Mark 1:1). So Mark lets us know from the very opening line that his gospel is about Jesus the Messiah who is the Son of God. The text states that “Christ was a title in Jewish circles, however, as the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew work “messiah” (Ehrman 62).
There were those who listened and followed Jesus, some of which were in the original twelve disciples, who struggled with the duality of this message. Most assuredly Jesus was speaking of a physical kingdom to come. This would be the kingdom in which he will reign victoriously and his followers will reign with him. The failure of previous messiahs is that they too declared a new kingdom, but they failed. Matthew’s first readers would have understood the struggle of those hearing Jesus and longing for him to overthrow Rome and free Israel from the evil empire.
The Gospel of John centers his gospel on what Jesus said and did in Jerusalem.
The Gospels consist of written accounts of Jesus preaching, healing the sick, casting out demons, and raising the dead (Oxtoby, Hussain, and Amore 151). Recognized as being blasphemous, Jesus was becoming a disturbance towards Jewish officials. He was arrested, and later sentenced to his death by Pontius Pilate. The early Christians believed Jesus died on the cross for the sins of humanity, and was resurrected two days later, exhibiting both his human and
While the other gospels emphasize the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven, John instead emphasizes new life found in Jesus. It’s from John that we get Christ’s famous claim “I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me” -John 14:6. Jesus frequently uses metaphors to hint at his identity. John records more of these analogies than any other gospel, giving us some of the most famous word pictures for Christ.
