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.
eyond being in the innermost circle of Jesus' disciples, John was not a particularly significant figure. However, the writing of the Gospel of John around 90 CE changed that. Whether John the Apostle actually wrote the Gospel of John is not clear, as many scholars argue on both sides of the issue, but its mention of the ''beloved disciple'' is usually identified with John the Apostle. Undoubtedly, this title and the disciple being depicted laying his head against Jesus in art, made John a popular figure and legendary disciple. In the Acts of the Apostles and Galatians, John is depicted alongside Peter as performing miracles, preaching the good news of Jesus, and even being a ''pillar'' of the church after Jesus' ascension.
In chapter 19 Mary in the Qur’an, Maryam by Mohammad, is told of her foreseeable future. Her husband has been visited and has received explanatory news. Verse 19:8 shows that he is very confused of how this baby will be born as he is old and his wife is barren ‘He said, "My Lord, how will I have a boy when my wife has been barren and I have reached extreme old age?". However, this chapter in the Qur’an describes the birth of ‘John’ and he will be a sign to the people and a mercy from ‘Us’. This chapter also mentions the missions of some earlier prophets, showing that only human beings are raised to reform the world.
Gospel Paper In the Gospel of Mark 9:38-43, 45, and 47-48 John informs Jesus that someone was chasing the demons out of someone in his name. He continued saying that he had tried to stop the person because he was not one of Jesus’ followers. Jesus responded to John saying that he should leave the person alone because those who perform good deeds in his name cant also do bad things. Jesus also said that if they are not against and even if they do not follow us, that they are still a follower.
In Genesis the third chapters and fourth verse, Satan introduced heresy into human life through Adam and Eve when he persuades them to sin. The book of John is an apostolic letter. It was written from Ephesus around 85-95 A.D. by the Apostle John. The key personalities are the Apostles Peter and Paul. Their purpose was to warn Christians about the increasing threat of false teachings and to reassure Christians of their faith and love in Jesus Christ.
Chapter 6 In John 6, it says that a big crowd of people was following Jesus because they witnessed the miracles that Jesus performed. (John 6:2) This was interesting to me because it is saying that the people followed because of the miraculous things that Jesus did, not necessarily because of the things that Jesus taught. Their attention was caught by the miracles of healing that Jesus did that they wanted to see more.
To fully understand why, readers must hear teaching of the standards Jesus states in his sermons such as the Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 7 it talks about dogs and pigs and in the context of this passage, pigs are considered as very unclean animal and dogs are considered wild scavengers. Matthew 7:1-6 is often times taken out of context, mainly because verse 1 is being repeated by people without reading the five verses that follow. If you read verse 1 in isolation which says, “judge not, that you be not judged”, you can interpret it as not to judge anyone for the sin they are doing. For that reason, this can be known as the sinner’s favorite verse, and even professing Christians use it in their defense when sinning.
A lot of my art peers, who are about to graduate when are asked about their future, says that they wish to quickly get a job and be able to pay bills. A number of people asked me what my major was, I said art, and they asked me why, and that I came all the way to the United States for this. Another one suggested me to change my major to either accounting or business. Last four years, I hesitated to join Cumberland University to study art. After years following a trend of “How to get an office job and get your monthly bill paid”, I finally found the place I was supposed to be in, Art.
The book of Revelation, is the last book of the Bible. It is a revelation that was written by the apostle John while he was in Roman exile on the Island of Patmos in the eastern Mediterranean. According to the first words of the book, God gave this revelation to Jesus, who entrusted it to an angel to pass on to John. Although not at first in chapter form, the book of Revelation is now divided into 22 chapters and can be broken up into four separate parts for an easier understanding of how it flows. Revelation has been dated near the end of the first century, around A.D. 96.
Question:"Consider the figure of Jesus in the Gospel of John, the Gospel of Thomas, or the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Who or what is Jesus, in the Gospel that you have selected?" When studying the Gospel of John, Jesus is identified as the Son of God because the metaphor of the Lamb is used, Jesus Christ is mentioned instead of Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus acknowledges himself to the world as the Son of God. In the Gospel, the Lamb of God is referenced multiple times and distinguishes a sacrifice is in the mist. The reader consciously knows Jesus is God’s only son, nevertheless making the role of sacrifice an even harder burden to carry.
The Gospel of John contains some of the most profound truth which is expressed in the simplest way. It is full of imagery and symbolism which though concise and limited bears deep spiritual meaning. In his book, The Interpretation of the fourth Gospel, C. H. Dodd must have been the first to identify the leading ideas and thus separate in form and function the allegories of the Gospel of John from the synoptic parables and connect them with the Old Testament and the Hellenistic-Jewish symbolic tradition. That is to say the author of this Gospel mostly uses common things present in the life and tradition of his listeners and uses them to make the divine understandable. Koester in his book on Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel says that:
One cathedral in Malta houses one of the most famous paintings of all time. It is the St. John’s Cathedral at Valletta and the painting was done by one Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1608 as payment to the Pope for becoming a knight in Malta after being exiled from Rome (Stone 161). Surprisingly, it hangs on the oratory wall, the same spot where knighting and defrocking of the artist took place. No other work of art has ever had a more profound effect on me than the masterpiece, ‘The Beheading of John the Baptist’. Born in 1571 in Northern Italy, Caravaggio’s life was not devoid of controversy.
God: God is known in John by two ways, “the Father who sent” Jesus (5:37), and as “the Father of the Son” (5:17-23). In the gospel of John writing God, does not become the center of focus. The Jewish people already has strong ties and believes in God, however there was some debate whether the Jewish’s people believes that Jesus was the Messiah and or the Son of God. According to C. S. Lewis he made a statement about Jesus and John wholeheartedly agreed with, Lewis wrote “Jesus is lunatic, liar, or Lord”. The Messiah: John speaking about the Messiah is to prove that Jesus is the Messiah, and the Son of God (20:30-31).
Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.’” —John 6:35. “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’”
