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.
These authors often advocate unorthodox interpretations: Jesus never died on the cross; he was connected with the Qumran community; someone else changed his message to fit their own desires; he traveled to various parts of the word during the so called "silent years" or even after the crucifixi...
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 ...
Rather than an assertation that subjectivity is the ultimate ground or source of truth, however, this thesis may be taken to denote that that which one understands to be the case is to be appropriated by oneself in one’s own existence. [7] Moreover, this thesis may be concisely taken ...
But he nevertheless introduced it and it has become one of the classical apologetic arguments for God’s existence. The second major teaching that Anselm gave us was the teaching on the Atonement; Anselm taught that Jesus died to ransom man back to God, the penalty of death was a penalty ...
(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 “...
The historical objects on display are proof of the European cultural and trade exchange that continued here for hundreds of years. The tourist route under the Main Market Square leads between the stone and brick walls of the cellars and stalls of former trading sites, the Great Scales, and ...
This is by contrast to what the Church has known over the centuries Paul (and Jesus!) to have believed and taught. My friend's wife for her part at one point thought Dawkins and Hitchens were a kind of supreme word on God, and Bishop John Spong the same on Christianity. This seemed ...
(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. ...
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 ...