2007-05-23 15:10:12 · 9 answers · asked by realchurchhistorian 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
he is the only one who dare to say, "i am the way", if you believe in him he leads you to the salvation way...
and he is the one who raise after death and lives eternally...
2007-05-23 15:14:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not sure what you mean, but I'll have a go at it.
First off - Jesus was Jewish.
I assume you know what this means...but it not, let me sum it up in a few brief points:
1. Judaism believes that there is no god but God (a.k.a., Adonai, Elohim, etc...), and we (the humans) are NOT to make any graven images of God or worship any idols that represent God (in human or any other earthly form);
2. Jews believe that all people of all faiths (or, lack thereof) are welcome into the Kingdom of Heaven, as long as we ask forgiveness of those we've wronged and try to live a repentant life;
3. Jews are still waiting for the Messiah, the person who will bring in a long period of peace.
In conclusion:
Jesus was born a Jew, lived as a Jew and worshiped as a Jew.
Most likely, he didn't plan on people worshiping him and he might (just maybe!) be a bit ticked off at the way people have misinterpreted his parables and preaching and turned it into the resulting religion of Christianity.
2007-05-23 22:20:33 · answer #2 · answered by docscholl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, he never said of himself that he was God. Others said that of him. At the time, he was the only one/prophet/teacher talking about direct connection with the divine being the Jews called "God." He was in the midst of a very diverse culture that was either monotheistic (one God, i.e., the Jews), or polytheistic (the Greco-Romans believing in a wide variety of gods), or non-theistic such as those following the teaching of Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and other greek philosophers. None of those were teaching direct connection with God, but they taught some sort of sacrifice at temples to earn God's or a god's favor, or they taught a philosophy of life that paid little acknowledgment of any deity. Jesus is unique from other religions because he taught his followers to honor the connection of fellowship they had with each other and to develop and deepen a connection with one God (29"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'There is no commandment greater than these." Mark 12:29-31, NIV, www.biblegateway.com).
Buddhism teaches about developing and deepening connection with the Divine, as does Taoism, but doesn't teach much about connection with others. Unless I'm mistaken, the teachings of Jesus are the only place in which it is taught that doing both is critical for spiritual wholeness.
2007-05-23 22:33:12 · answer #3 · answered by organicsoul2000 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He isn't. Check out Dionysus, Osiris, Mithras, and Apollonius of Tyana to start. Then check out Justin Martyr. It turns out there were a lot of other dying and rising savior gods that were around before Jesus. They were so well known that Justin Martyr and other church fathers had to say that the devil planted the dying and rising god story all through history just to discredit Jesus before he was born.
Also, all of his stories and sayings have precedents. Check out the Cynic philosophers.
2007-05-23 22:21:16 · answer #4 · answered by abulafia24 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
John 14:6
Jesus said* to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."
Acts 4:10-12
10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health.
11 "He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone.
12 "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."
2007-05-23 22:17:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
He was the first person to dare say that he "was" God. In other religions, such as Islamic, all it says is that they're prophets.
2007-05-23 22:17:33 · answer #6 · answered by Joe S. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"what fellowship does light have with darkness or God with Satan" or "don't even the Pagans do that?". politically correct doesn't really matter
2007-05-23 22:25:10 · answer #7 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He died, was raised from the dead on the 3rd day and is alive today. I serve a Living Christ. Do you?
2007-05-23 22:14:27 · answer #8 · answered by Kaliko 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He was and is God.
2007-05-24 00:23:26 · answer #9 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋