Essays Tagged: "Son of God"
The Root Meaning of the name Matthew
ng this, one can learn alot about who he is.The effect of the meaning of one's name onto who the person is andwhat he stands for is often uncanny. For example, if one's namemeans king, it wouldn't be ... often uncanny. For example, if one's namemeans king, it wouldn't be suprising to find that this person is insome way a great leader. It seems clear that the sub-concious mindplays some kind of role i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Arianism. A heresy which arose in the fourth century, and denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
st to God wasconcerned. In the New Testament and in Church teaching Jesus of Nazarethappears as the Son of God. This name He took to Himself (Matt., xi, 27; John, x,36), while the Fourth Gospel declar ... vation that Christians in their assemblies chanted a hymnto Christ as God. But the question how the Son was related to the Father (Himselfacknowledged on all hands to be the one Supreme Deity), gave r ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Christianity
ng, serving and changing the views mankind forever. This man was Jesus Christ, known to many as the son of a virgin and the son of God. He was the king of man to those who followed him but yet he taug ... and a Christian. Now the word Christianity can be taken in many different contexts. A religious person who believes in Jesus Christ and is a member of a Christian denomination is the noun definition ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
A short bliography on Mary, Mother of Jesus. Florence Nightingale, and Irena Sendler (Jewish Holocaust hero) and their displays of holiness. Alos includes a compare and contrast of the three women
d be. Mary was bethroed to Joseph when the angel Gabriel appears to her and says she is to bear the son of God, she asks, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" She is told that nothing is impossible ... ough Mary herself is holy as well as all her acts, the most courageous act she did was watching her son die on the cross. Mary endured the pain because she was a good piteous woman devoted to God, she ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
If I could interview anyone, who would it be? Jesus And Why? What questions would you ask him/her, and why?
o be Jesus. I would want to interview him because he was a man different from you and I. He was the son of God, a man without sins. Being of the Christian faith, there are many questions that are unan ... was able to resist temptation, and what he felt inside. Many would refer to him as a supreme being, son of God, but what we need to realize is that he was also human, like you and I. He had feelings, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
The definition of God, for Christians
ion.In the Catholic religion, we believe that one must try to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, the Son of God. Jesus is referred to many times as being, "created in God's own image." The perception o ... eing, "created in God's own image." The perception of Jesus is one being the perfect model for a person to live their life by. The gospel of Luke shows how Jesus was perfect, especially the opening ch ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Title:"Jesus Christ Is More Than A Word" Holistic Essay, with much criticism from instructors
le:"Jesus Christ Is More Than A Word"He sodomized sheep, Jesus Christ, the devil, Jesus Christ, the son of man. Jesus Christ was traumatized as a child due to the fact that he was separated from God, ... istian movie). Jesus Christ, was a man so devoted to God that he believed himself to be a "begotten son" of God. Jesus Christ was and is a God walking among us (an old radio show). He was sacrificed s ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
How Christianity and Judaism are Alike and Different!
ou have Christianity, these followers are called Christians. Christians believe that Jesus was the 'Son of God' and the 'Messiah.' They also believe that Jesus suffered and died for people's sins and ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
What are the origins of lent?
th three things. The first is when a starving Jesus is desperately hungry and is told if he was the son of god he would turn the stone into bread. Jesus replied "man should not live by bread alone, bu ... se purple as the symbolic colour for the time of lent and is often seen in churches for a couple reasons. Firstly is associated with the pain and agony that Jesus suffered through the crucifixion. Sec ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Catholic Christianity and Rastafarianism.
ity was established just after the death of Jesus, near the beginning of the Common Era. Jesus, the Son of God and Messiah, was born a Jew. Early Christianity was therefore a strand of Judaism and it ... the white Christians "Babylon". "I and I" is a common phrase used among Rastas and means that no person is more advantaged than any other person. Christians also have this viewpoint by saying that all ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
What is the function of the Sign at Cana in John 2:1-12?
dditionally uses the "signs" to construct his bases for establishing Jesus is the Messiah, the Only Son of God. He ingeniously selected these particular seven signs to do this and acknowledges Jesus h ... it directs the attention to the reality signified"2. A "sign" is a type of a miracle, except it personifies and emphasizes the spiritual truth of Jesus Christ. John is not bothered with the results n ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
A biography of noah.
rt us in the labor and painful toil of our hands cursed by the ground the land cursed."Noah was the son Lamech, the grandson of Methuselah, the great-grandson of Enoch, and the great-great-great-great ... of Methuselah, the great-grandson of Enoch, and the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Adam, the son of God. He had the great blood of Enoch and Methuselah running through him so h ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Why is the resurrection central to the Christian Faith?
religion and separates it from the Jewish faith. Whilst Christians believe and accept Christ as the Son of God and their saviour, Jews do not. However it is not the life of Jesus Christ that is centra ... urrection and the life." Jesus is the link between humans and God as he is both of them - he is the Son of God and he is the son of Mary, a human, which means he is both Godly and human. - He is a God ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Temptation of Jesus Christ
"If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." The first temptation was on the level of His physica ... hysical needs in order to fulfill the task? We need to depend and trust on Him. Let us learn the lesson from the people of Israel in the desert. Each day they needed to learn to trust and depend on Go ... word of God. "The righteous will live by faith."The last temptation is on the level to defy the person of God. This temptation involved the purpose of His coming into the world. Jesus came to redeem ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Islam VS Catholism
sm are based primarily on the lives and teachings of men sent by God. In Catholicism, Jesus was the son of God, sent down to earth to spread the word of the Lord to the people, and ultimately die a br ... pite Islam and Catholicism having a sharing a mutual God, Muslims do not believe that Jesus was his son, instead they identify Jesus as a prophet. This greatly distinguishes the two religions as Jesus ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam
Buddha and Jesus: A Comparison
der of the world's largest religion, a major prophet of another major religion, and self-proclaimed Son of God is nothing more than a Jewified compendium of stories about a man from India? Why would a ... umb uttered praise of the Great Being; the deformed were straightened; the crippled were healed; prisoners in chains were freed from bondage" (Mitchell 14). In this way, both Jesus and Siddhartha were ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Buddhism
Christianity
trine. They believe that there is only one God which is the God of trinity; God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.The word "Christian" comes from the word Christ which means God's people ... n" comes from the word Christ which means God's people. Christian believes that Jesus Christ is the son of God which sent down from heaven to free men from their sins. Bible is the holy book use by Ch ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Christianity verses Judiasm
l that they do, but also seeks to help them when they are is need. God reveals himself in three 'persons: Father, Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit. However, these three persons are regarded as a ... persons are regarded as a unity, sharing one substance.Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who came to earth as a man to restore the relationship between humans and God which had ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
The death of Jesus was a historical, prophetic, and even theological necessity. However, Jesus interpreted His death as the consequence and culmination of his life and mission.
against Him.It was a prophetic necessity because prophets die for their faith. And Jesus, being the Son of God, is no exception. Prophets do God's will and announce hope for the poor thus their deaths ... God can see that the only way to achieve the greater good of salvation is through the death of His Son. Furthermore, the cross also depicts an image of suffering and pain that deviates and contradict ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
The Birth of Christianity
ants of Abraham. It was believed that Jesus was born of a virgin mother; he was the self-proclaimed Son of God. This declaration was considered blasphemy, punishable by death. And, as was customary in ... In about 50 to 60 CE, Saul, a Pharisee tentmaker, while searching for followers of Jesus to imprison, encountered a light brighter than the sun and heard Jesus' voice appointing him to do the oppos ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity