2007-02-20 07:40:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
he taught hope and salvation to a world that had none...
2007-02-20 07:45:32 · answer #1 · answered by double_klicks 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most importantly He died for you... Have you ever met someone that was willing to die for you? Jesus Christ died so that you could have eternal life. But it was His love for you that motivated Him to die for you. He knew that there was going to be some that wasn't going to believe in Him, but yet He still sacrificed His Life. Now that's Love. I'm pretty sure you've seen the movie, "The Passion of Christ" - and the beating He took, and having to carry that heavy cross up the hill just to be crucified on it. Jesus did many things (miracles, healings, casting demons out of people, etc.. - the things that He did, if they all were written down even this world couldn't contain all that He did) but most importantly, He is the Christ, the Messiah. He is "The Only Way" to heaven, not one of the ways. He willingly sacrificed His own body so that you/we can have a relationship with God the Father. Not only did He sacrifice His own body and die, but on the 3rd day He rose from the dead (having a new body, but the same scars(from being crucified) from His old body. So He is alive and is seated at the right hand of God. For us to have a relationship with God we must become born again, which means we have to first accept Jesus Christ into our hearts and believe He is who He says He is, and He did what the Word of God says He did (and that can be found in the Bible).
2007-02-20 16:06:00 · answer #2 · answered by unknown 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's important to note that Jesus did nothing to MAKE people believe in him. He simply said, "Come follow me," and people chose to follow him.
People who were truly converted to Christianity when Jesus was on the earth were converted by the Holy Ghost. When the apostle Peter testified that Jesus was the son of God, Jesus told Peter that seeing Him face-to-face (flesh and blood) did not reveal Jesus' divinity to Peter, but rather the Holy Ghost did.
2007-02-20 15:51:17 · answer #3 · answered by Dave 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, that's the catch...Jesus didn't 'do' things to 'make' people believe in Him. The choice of the word 'make' implies force to some and Jesus always lived by the principle of free-will...so anyone could choose to believe in Him by His life and example of self-less love.
2007-02-20 15:50:38 · answer #4 · answered by TwinkleHead 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't do anything astonishing, not even those miracles the Church says that he performed. It was the people and their need for a guide that could tell them who they were, where they came from and their purpose for living, which is Love. As simple as that. They didn't believe in him as a human, they believed in his power of Love. He used the force of Love in all of its splendor and strength; and that was the lesson he left, which most of us cannot come down to fully understand yet. Love and Generosity= Peace. If I love you so much and I demonstrate it to you through my actions that are moved by this inner peace in my heart and you could immediately tell that I am sincere, wouldn't you believe in my love?
2007-02-20 16:03:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He did many miracles but this is a difficult question because faith is involved if you believe he is the Son of God. Faith is hard to define. I'm sure people have better answers than this but faith was the key to my belief in Him.
2007-02-20 15:49:37 · answer #6 · answered by jag 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus.
He is amazing
He died on the cross for our sins.
I KNOW and there is PROOF he is real.
I had a papa who died, my friends both had grandmothers.
All three were hospitalized and dying.
My papa had claimed that he saw angels.
"Do you see them? The Angels! Theyre here to speak with me!"
Grandma had said:
"The angels have come to save me!"
Other grandma:
"They're beautiful. The angels."
Without Jesus we would all be sent to hell, for we have sinned.
But he served his body and blood for us to wash them all away.
Jesus came to Earth, and many believed once they saw all of the miracles he did.
He let a blind man see!
He did the impossible, what no other could do.
This, truly, is the work of God.
This is...Jesus. The son of our Lord.
2007-02-20 15:51:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
To many it seems that he fulfilled prophecy, prophesied and rose from the dead. He also made history by becoming well known and popular since then with a huge following of his teachings.
2007-02-20 15:55:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He spoke to the people, they listened and believed Him. He did miracles and they didn't question them. He didn't have to convince them, He had a certain simplicity about Him and charisma and then there is the fact that He is God.
2007-02-20 15:52:21 · answer #9 · answered by Eryn v 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋