The historians of the 1st and 2nd centuries were barely aware of the Jewish messianic sect of Christianity and wrote nothing about Jesus Christ. The few mentions that exist are forgeries.
For Schonfield, Jesus had carefully planned his career of public ministry in accordance with his belief that he was Israel's Messiah.(2) Accordingly, he plotted events such as his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, on which occasion Lazarus helped him make the appropriate arrangements.(3) Jesus ma...
Jesus' self-understanding reflects his identity, his triune salvific role; this is for Lewis, the transposed reality of divine Sonship. Reason and logic are paramount here, reflected in the structure of Lewis's argument. Lewis's trilemma is not so much a proof of God's existence, but a ...
The point being, yes- Arian went too far in his belief that Jesus was a created being, Johns gospel refutes this belief strongly [as well as many other portions of scripture] but too say that Jesus was/is the full expression of the father, because he ‘came out from God’ is also i...
and Kierkegaard more generally, posits truth as transcendentally embodied in the paradoxical and offensive [16] life of Jesus, whose unique charge it was to instantiate good in the world and concomitantly show love of God as the veritable aim and content of truth that is related to existence....
(Ananus [Ananias]) convened the judges of the Sanhedrin and brought before them a man named James, the brother of Jesus, who was called the Christ, and certain others. He accused them of having transgressed the law and delivered them up to be stoned. ...
(such as Egypt or Iraq) starting around 5,000 years ago culminated to make religion something kind of new, a sociocultural-governmental-religious monarchy, where all or at least many of the people of such large city-state societies seem familiar with and committed to the existence of “...
I recently sat through a marathon session with a friend who presented what to me was thin gruel of his reductionist faith in "Jesus"; a Jesus stripped of almost anything transcendent. This was all to insist, my friend explained, that he was still a "Person of the Book". My friend had...
Jesus later kills another child in the same way, simply because he bumped into him. It is safe to conclude that this Infancy Gospel of Thomas was heresy. Early believers were as curious as we are today and, like us, tend to fill in missing details if few are provided to us. This ...
He thought of faith as resting upon the knowledge of God’s gracious will and favor toward the individual. He defined faith as a “firm and certain knowledge of God’s benevolence toward us” and found this confidence residing in the promises of God in Christ Jesus and the power of the ...