What I would like to know is whether or not Jesus himself believed in life after death and the Apocalypse. Did he?
BTW, what do you know about the Apocalypse? Thx. <3
2007-06-05 22:42:29 · 7 answers · asked by cheese sticks 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Hello,
Yes he did and mentioned it on numerous occasions and said he was the way to God and heaven preaching to everyone that you had to love and forgive to get there..
He wept for Jerusalem and predicted its destruction which did happen 30 years after his cruxifiction. Alo when asked about the end times he told his apostles that there would be wars, rumors of wars, plagues and earthquakes but all of these would still come to pass before the end times. The day or hour, he said that only the father in Heaven knew but not himself on earth.
Michael Kelly
2007-06-05 23:13:27 · answer #1 · answered by Michael Kelly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus's thoughts on life after death are summed up in his words 'in my Father's House are many mansions - I go there to prepare a place for you' But quite what he meant is open to interpretation. 'Mansion' does not mean a large house, but is a rendition of the Latin word 'mansiones' which meant a sort of hotel/motel which the Romans built along major roads where state messengers could rest and change horses. The older Persian Empire had a similar system. He believed in judgement - see the parable of the sheep and goats. I don't think he believed in hell, which was a much later invention, he merely refers to the goats being cast into the outer darkness. I don't believe for one moment in that he believed in an Apocalypse. This concept appears only in Revelations which is a strange book and which was included in the canon by the skin of its teeth. It is a great breeding ground, howevver, for all kinds of strange Christian sects which take a verse or two and build a whole system of beliefs on them.
2007-06-06 09:45:55 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He certainly did, probably not the apocalypse as elaborated by John.
He also believed that the Second Coming would happen in the lifetime of some of his listeners.
2007-06-06 12:25:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, of course he did, just read the four gospels.
Today there are people who seek to minimize the gospels by saying they came late and were not written by the apostles. This is rubbish. The internal and manuscript evidence strongly indicates that the four gospels which exist today have been unchanged in any significant way since the end of the first century are are indeed what they claim to be, the witnesses of the apostles who saw these events happened and wrote in their lifetimes and the lifetimes of others who personally witnessed Jesus.
2007-06-06 06:02:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was a Jew. If he was the 'The Son of God (Barrabus)', then his beliefs would have been in line with that position. However, as 'King of the Jews (Jesus)' his position would have been one of a military leader/king. Ultimately, if he was a Jew, which he was, then his belief system would have been Jewish.
Luck
2007-06-06 07:54:02 · answer #5 · answered by Alice S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he had to believe in life after death, otherwise he wouldn't have been sacrificed and he did come back after his death, didn't he?
2007-06-06 05:53:36 · answer #6 · answered by sz_flo 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are you simple?
2007-06-06 07:16:56 · answer #7 · answered by cernunnicnos 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋