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.
In chapter 3 of Speaking of Jesus, Carl Medearis talks about what it means to own Christianity. He says "If we don't truly know what the gospel is, we have to find an explanation for Christianity." Meaning that if we do not know what the gospel is or what it is teaching us, then we try to define it by our own standards, and that is where it gets messy. Medearis talks about how Christianity is more than a religion, but it is a relationship and people tend to not understand that. He explains why people are so defensive and put up their guards towards Christians, because Christians can be so judgemental.
• Jesus is an unavoidable and deeply mysterious figure. We do not know as much about Him as we would like to know. This can make it difficult to grasp what Jesus was about. People found him confusing in His own day and the same is true today. • One major reason we have trouble understanding Jesus is that His world is strange and, to many Westerners, foreign.
Pilate, finding no fault, desired to set Jesus free, but the Jews called out to crucify Him. To pacify the Jews, he released Barabbas unto them and gave them Jesus to be crucified. See Luke 23:6-12. Mark 15:21-22 “
The figures worshipped in religion have no power until their followers give them that momentum. Historically, Jesus was a traveller that preached his ideas and lived a relatively normal life. Through Christianity, however, Jesus Christ has become one of the most important leaders in history. Faith in the unknown sometimes gives the ordinary an extraordinary sway in the world. The relationship between Sonmi-451 and Zachry from David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is proof of this.
Every time the Pharisees or chief priests tried to outsmart Jesus’ teaching, Jesus made them look like fools. It would seem Jesus was at the peak of his
He appears afraid and doubtful in Garden of Gethsemane before his arrest. The writing style of the gospel accounts is not in keeping with the writing style of myths of that era, but rather it is more like what you’d expect from eyewitness reports. And why don’t the separate gospel accounts show evidence of conspiracy? If Jesus’ followers were trying to pull off a hoax, you’d think they would have made sure to get their stories straight.
What I saw in this documentary was basically a one hour summary of the secular history of two huge branches of Christianity. Now although I say two branches, which implies different churches, the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christian churches were considered the same church for about 1000 years. The Christian church before it split into two was originally a sect of the Jewish religion. In fact, they have all the same historical beliefs as the Jews up to when Jesus had his ministry. The Christian church saw Jesus as the Messiah, and this separated them from the Jews.
I soon found myself intrigued to affirm Christianity intellectuality, but was aware even when I was a child that maintain an identity in religion was a necessity (Frost, W. J. (2012, March)). I differed from most Quakers of my time with the ability to understand the reason behind Christianity a little more (Frost, W. J. (2012, March)). I during my time found that you cannot just develop one law or pamphlet, I instead emphasized rationale in the different cases in my life such as my trial in England to the founding of Pennsylvania (Frost, W. J. (2012, March)). My view on religious figures such as Jesus is varied depending on the case, Jesus for example was sent to us to help establish the concept of the church by renouncing his life and defying it by rising again he establish the principles upon which the Church’s governance was founded upon (Frost, W. J. (2012, March)). I would actually consider Jesus a great example in regards to what powerful religious figures should do in their life Jesus preached to inform and notify people because of his faith not to spite the Roman government at the time (Frost, W. J. (2012, March))
Exchange with Judas Judas betrayed Jesus by leading him to Jewish authorities. “His betrayer has given then a sign: “The one I kiss, He’s the one, arrest Him and get Him securely securely away” (Matthew 26: 48). With this signal, the Jewish authorities arrested Jesus
It is interesting that two of the four gospels give us narrative of the early life of Christ. Each one, and Luke, has their own unique writing style. Matthew is writing to the Jewish Christian to encourage them in their faith that Jesus is the promised Messiah of the Jews. Luke account is to the Gentiles Christian to give them an accurate and historical explanation of the life of Jesus.
“God said: 'Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness,'” (Gen 1:26) after which He created Adam and Eve and all of humanity. Sadly, this divine image, as we know, was defaced in man when they committed original sin by disobeying God at the beginning of human history. We recognize this story as the Fall of humanity. Yes, it seems that we had it all in the beginning, and lost it all because of original sin.
Within this scripture, it was signified that Jesus fell the first time while carrying his own cross as he marches to the Skull (Golgotha) metaphorically as this passage portrays John the Baptist`s point of view, as we read John the Baptist comprehends Jesus as he barely manages to bear the weight of the cross, as he struggles to walk, he slowly becomes weaker and weaker as our saviour`s mind began to faint from exhaustion. Jesus accepted his upcoming fate of being accused of false witness even if he was going to offer his own life. It seemed as nobody wanted to help him. Jesus sacrificed his life to bear humanity`s burden of sins, griefs, and carried our sorrows with no return, those who witnessed their saviour suffering from the King`s jealousy
In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus Christ tries to omit the witnessed accounts in raising the dead but in the Gospel of John; he exposes his true power for the masses to recognize. Turning water into wine is another example of Jesus exposing his true self in public. The last passage that 's shows Jesus knows his position in the work of God is John 8:15-17 "You judge by human standards; I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is valid; for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me." The cleansing of the temple passage also shows God is his father and Jesus will do anything in his power to protect the family.
Everyone knows the gospels are very important to the Catholic Church, But why? We read them at mass every Sunday so they must have a deeper meaning. Well that’s just it. They teach about Jesus’ life on earth, his death and resurrection. They might differ from each other but that is because they were written by four different authors.
