Divine Sonship Of Jesus The third Christian dogma is that Jesus Christ was the Son of God in a special and exclusive sense. The dogma of Divine Sonship of Jesus, also is not in conformity with the sayings and teachings of Jesus. In the Bible this expression has been used...
Why Would Jesus Have To Die On Cross? In this article, you will find the answer to your burning question: “Why Would Jesus Have To Die On Cross?“ According to the Christian doctrine, Jesus died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins. The idea here is that every...
Why Jews Don’t Accept Jesus As Messiah In this article, you will find the answer to your burning question: “Why Jews Don’t Accept Jesus As Messiah.“ Growing up in Philadelphia, I attended Akiba Hebrew Academy, a private Jewish school. In 11th grade, a Southern Baptist preacher came to speak to...
What Jesus Said About Fasting This article covers Jesus and fasting. The Gospel of Matthew shows that Jesus “fasted forty days and forty nights” (Matthew 4:21). The Gospel of Luke adds the detail that “in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered” (Luke...
The Genealogy of Jesus This article covers The Genealogy of Jesus. Watch now how the Christian fathers have foisted the incestuous progenies of the Old Testament upon their Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, in the New Testament. For a man who had no genealogy, they have manufactured one for him....
No Offence But Muslims Love Jesus “The Muslim Jesus is not divine, but a humble servant of God. He was not crucified – Islam insists that the story of the killing of Jesus is false. He is, as it were, Jesus as he might have been without St Paul or...
Historicity of Jesus The historicity of Jesus is the question of Jesus of Nazareth can be regarded as a historical figure. Virtually all New Testament scholars and Near East historians, applying the standard criteria of historical-critical investigation, find that the historicity of Jesus is effectively certain, although they differ about...
Historical Jesus The term “historical Jesus” refers to the reconstruction of the life and teachings of Jesus by critical historical methods, in contrast to religious interpretations. It also considers the historical and cultural contexts in which Jesus lived. Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure, and attempts to deny his historicity have been...
Genealogy of Jesus of Nazareth The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. Matthew starts with Abraham, while Luke begins with Adam. The lists are identical between Abraham and David, but differ radically from that point. Matthew has twenty-seven generations from David...
Did Jesus Say “I Am God”? This article covers the answer to the question: “Did Jesus Say ‘I Am God’?“ Some people claim Jesus is God and use (John 8:58) to support their views; “I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” The same people...
Did Jesus Deny Being God? This article covers the answer to the question: “Did Jesus Deny Being God?“ If I am standing in front of the IBM headquarters building, and a fellow employee unknowingly asked me “Is this your building, do you own this building?” Then I replied “This Building...
Did Jesus Come To Die For The Sins Of All Humans? In this article, you will find the answer to your burning question: “Did Jesus Come To Die For The Sins Of All Humans?“ We see in the Gospel, that the word righteous means pure and sinless. As the two...
Who Is Christ? This article covers the answer to the question: “Who Is Christ?“ Christ (Khristós; anointed) is a translation of the Hebrew Māšîaḥ, the Messiah, and is used as a title for Jesus in the New Testament. Followers of Jesus became known as Christians (as in Acts 11:26) because...
Birth of Jesus in Gospels and Qur’an This article covers the Birth Of Jesus In Gospels And Qur’an in detail. Out of the four Gospels only two, Matthew and Luke mentioned the birth of Jesus. Both agree that birth was a miraculous event and that Jesus was born of the...
Spirit Toward The Present Time This article covers the thought of philosophers on spirit toward the present time. Ancient philosophies have been re-evaluated and criticized in recent centuries. Free thinking has gained ascendancy. Even Divinely revealed religious texts have received their share of criticism. Love of truth and zeal for...
The Scholars Of Sufism About The Spirit This article covers the considerations of the scholars of Sufism about the Spirit. The scholars of Sufism regard the considerations of philosophers and some theologians about the spirit to be a futile exercise. However, we see the traces of the doctrine of the...
Socrates About Spirits This article covers the view of Socrates about spirits. The matter of spirit entered a new phase with Socrates, who proved to be a turning point in ancient Greek philosophy. Socrates freed the spirit from the narrow frame of matter and physicality and adopted a much wider approach to...
Plato About Spirits This article covers the view of Plato about spirits. Although it was Anaxagoras who, being a spiritualist philosopher, discussed the physical and metaphysical dimensions of human existence under the titles of the spirit, intellect, and carnal soul for the first time in the history of philosophy, Socrates...
Spirit in Ionia Thales (624–546 BCE), one of the earliest philosophers of Ionia, thought the spirit to be some fluid substance that brought about life in the body. According to Anaximander (610–546 BCE), who succeeded Thales as the second master of the Milesian school, spirit was some boundless substance that...
Philo About Spirit This article covers the view of Philo about spirits. Alexandria‘s repertoire of the spirit, like that of the Greeks, is very rich. While the early philosophers of the Alexandrian school usually tended toward Stoic pantheism and peripatetic thought, over time they turned to Platonism under the influence...