I've always had the notion that their are kind of two Jesus'.
One is the idea of Jesus, that can't really be disputed. He is the one you think about when the name comes to mind and is about love and forgivness and all that.
Then there was the actual man that had lived, that I can't help but think is a little different from the idea. I think he was just a regular man and not the son of any gods. I'm sure he was full of mistakes and history just made him out to be something he was not.
Anyone else think this?
2007-03-24 05:34:04 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
There is only One Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God who walked the earth, was tempted like the first Adam yet without sin, who bore our sins on the cross, but since was the Lamb of God without blemish, raised from the dead, an new everlasting body, and ascended to the right hand of God where He Is today.
The other Jesus's are those who claim to be the Jesus who walked the earth and died on the cross & raised from the dead, but never really is that Jesus, but an imposter. There are a lot of those too.
But only one Jesus was born of a virgin conceived of the Holy Spirit, without sin nature & was tempted like the first Adam yet didn't sin.
Yes.
And also, you could look at Jesus as two, in that He Is the Word of Elohim. The Bread that came down from heaven. And He is the Son of Man (Seed of the Woman), and that is new (2000 yrs ago). And He Is human, yet died like a human because of our sins & not His. He raised from the dead a resurrected human body. This is His human side. He is 100/% the Word of God and 100% the Son of man (born of Mary, Israel).
2007-03-24 05:40:59 · answer #1 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
Based on what He had to say about Himself, Jesus had to be one of three things.
A) He lied about Himself when He said that He and the Father were one. That makes everything He had to say about Himself and His mission a lie. The biggest con artist perpetrating the largest scam in human history. If you believe that He lied and still follow Him, then you're a fool. Why would you follow a con artist?
B) He's earnest, but mistaken. That makes His statements about Himself and His mission a clear case of megalomania. Which means that He's the nuttiest fruitcake ever to walk down the pike. If you believe that He's a rubber room refugee and still follow Him, then you're also grist for the funny farm. Why would you follow someone who's certifiable?
C) He is who He said He is and what He says goes. And what He says is that He and the Father are one, ie, BOTH GOD! If you believe this and follow Him, you got a lock on salvation and a home with Him forever.
Take your pick, but you CANNOT have it both ways. Either He is God or He is not and who among you is doltish enough to follow or listen to a fake?
2007-03-24 05:45:56 · answer #2 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Something 2 think about: If Jesus were merely a good man that somehow got deified by history, would it really be possible for four separate men writing at different times to record harmonious accounts of his life? Could they all claim for things that he could not control (such as his place of birth and piercing at his death) to be in fulfillment of earlier recorded prophecy? Could any one man have had the effect on the Gregorian Calendar and secular holidays that claim to be dedicated to him if he were not who he claimed to be? Perhaps not. If such were possible, I would like to be immortalized in history as the second greatest man ever, even though I am obviously not the "son of God".
2007-03-24 05:42:46 · answer #3 · answered by DwayneWayne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one Jesus. But your theory is partly correct. Because there are two Adams. The first Adam was created in "The Beginning" and he made the mistake of sinning against God. The second Adam is Jesus Christ he was sent by God to redeem the human race.
2007-03-24 05:45:16 · answer #4 · answered by NOTW<>< 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is actually why the Dead Sea Scrolls are so controversial.
The early Christians that would become the Holy Roman Catholic Church edited the New Testament to deify Christ. Anything that depicted him as a prophet instead of the Son of God was removed.
That is, also, why it is so controversial to consider that he had had brothers (Mary was NOT a virgin forever), sisters, and possibly even a wife and child.
2007-03-24 05:38:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's kinda funny there was Jesus Christ and Jesus Barabbas offered release by Pilate and the crowd overwhelmingly wanted Jesus Barabbas.
Maybe both there story's intertwine in some weird way?
2007-03-24 05:43:17 · answer #6 · answered by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I disagree. When you consider how the early christians reacted to Roman persecution a matter of a few years after the death of Jesus, we see people who were willing to die for the complete and absolute faith in Jesus. Pliny's way to treat christians was to try and get them to a) to repeat after Pliny an invocation to the Gods, b) offer up a tribute and honour to the Emperor, and c) to curse Christ. If they refused to do these things they were executed. Plus many Christians were sent to fight the lions and such. Their faith was absolute and if you read the Bible, their faith was in no way based on sentiment. Their faith was based on fact, they knew Jesus was more than a man and they knew he had been raised up from the dead.
2007-03-24 05:45:41 · answer #7 · answered by north_lights20 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the idea of Jesus that you speak of is more of an idea of GOD.
AND YES, Jesus was a man but he was also GOD in the flesh and the PERFECT SON OF GOD. I do not believe that Jesus ever sinned and I believe that the only way to GOD is through him.
2007-03-24 05:41:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is one Jesus of Nazareth, he was fully man and fully God, therefore possessing dual essences.
The "Historical Jesus" movements have been dealt with repeatedly.
I would recommend "The Historical Jesus" by Gary Habermaas or "Jesus Under Fire" by several authors.
2007-03-24 06:04:48 · answer #9 · answered by doc in dallas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there's 1 Jesus.
He was a fully perfect Human. What we were supposed to be, but failed at being. (When Eve and Adam ate the Apple)
He was God in a Human form.
Theres only one.
2007-03-24 05:41:07 · answer #10 · answered by reeko_2002 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋