Who Bore Burden For Jesus? This article covers the answer to the question: “Who Bore Burden For Jesus?“ According to the Christian doctrine, Jesus died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins. The idea here is that every human is born with sins, or that all humans will sin, and therefore it...
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....
Some Forgotten Sayings Of Jesus This article covers Some Forgotten Sayings of Jesus. Anyone can call God “Father” according to the Bible: “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17 RSV 1952) Jesus, at the end of his mission, made it...
Quest for the Historical Jesus The quest for the historical Jesus consists of academic efforts to determine what words and actions, if any, may be attributed to Jesus, and to use the findings to provide portraits of the historical Jesus. Since the 18th century, three scholarly quests for the historical Jesus have taken...
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...
How Did People Know Him? This article covers the Perspectives of Jesus in The Bible. So if the followers of Jesus considered God to be their “Father,” then how did they regard Jesus? To answer this let us read together: “And when he would have put him to death, he...
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...
Depiction Of Jesus No useful description of the physical appearance of Jesus is given in the New Testament and the depiction of Jesus in pictorial form was controversial in the early Church. The depiction of him in art took several centuries to reach a conventional standardized form for his physical...
Criticism Of Jesus Criticism of Jesus has existed since the first century. Jesus was criticised by the Pharisees and scribes for disobeying Mosaic Law. He was decried in Judaism as a failed Jewish messiah claimant and a false prophet by most Jewish denominations. Judaism also considers the worship of any person a form of idolatry, and rejects the claim that Jesus was divine. Some psychiatrists, religious...
Language Of Jesus It is generally agreed by historians that language of Jesus and his disciples were primarily Aramaic (Jewish Palestinian Aramaic), the common language of Judea in the first century AD, most likely a Galilean dialect distinguishable from that of Jerusalem. The villages of Nazareth and Capernaum in Galilee,...
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...
Mandaeism Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (Arabic,مندائية) is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic tendencies. Its adherents, known as Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enosh, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist. They describe Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad as false Prophets. Mandaeans consider John the Baptist to be God’s most honorable messenger. Worldwide, there are thought to be between 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans and until the 2003 Iraq...