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The most chilling horror movie of the year isn’t Crimson Peak or Paranormal Activity: it’s Jesus Camp. The terror of watching kids spend every moment of their youth proselytizing, surrendering to prayer, and vying to “reclaim America for Christ,” is far more intense than seeing a girl being terrorized by ghosts. And scarier yet: it’s all completely real. Jesus Camp is not a drama or a comedy. It's a documentary, made by award-winning filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, who follow the…

of Jesus The New Testament integrates four gospels, each having been written during different time periods and by different minds. When different thought processes and personalities converge into one Bible, it is indisputable that there will be a degree of variation in the presentation of Jesus across the four gospels. The Gospel of Mark portrayed Jesus’ Messiahship through his suffering as a reparation for the sins of his followers. On the other hand, the Gospel of Matthew represented Jesus as…

N.T Wight, in his book Simply Jesus argues that modern people are guilty of oversimplifying Jesus, because they do not understand who Jesus really was, what he did, and why that matters. To truly understand who Jesus was, we must look at him from a first century perspective. People believed in many different ideas than what is believed today, so it is necessary to think in a way similar to how people in the first century thought in order to have a better understanding of who he was as a…

In the Gospel of Matthew Jesus is portrayed as the teacher. To Matthew Jesus is a teacher who is far greater than Moses or anyone ever was. Matthews Gospel was written and intended for the audience of other Jewish people since he was a Jew himself. This could be the main point that differentiates Mathew from the other Gospels because his audience was so heavily Jewish based. This Gospel is the beginning of the New Testament that sets up the other gospels that will follow even though much of…

Jesus is, without a doubt, the true son of God the Father. In addition, there is significant evidence to support that He is God Man. This is backed up by the Trilemma Argument along with the John’s Gospel in the New Testament, the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies. Primarily, the Trilemma argues that Jesus did claim to be divine. If Jesus was not divine, he cannot be a good man because that would make Him either a liar or lunatic. Now, due to Jesus’ teachings and Holy life as depicted…

Jesus Seminar Paragraph Marcus J. Borg attests in his book Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time that Jesus comprises two distinct personas; “the pre-Easter Jesus” and “the post-Easter Jesus” (20). He further implies that it is necessary for us to be able to differentiate between these identities, and cites and commends “the work of a group of scholars known as the Jesus Seminar” in dutifully analyzing and clarifying these necessary distinctions (21). Borg states that the Seminar “[has] met…

THCT100 – The Study of Jesus Essay. “The Study of Jesus Christ, who he is, what he said and did, is vital for Christian faith. This is so for three reasons: Jesus reveals who God is, who we are and what the Church is about” (Fachtna McCarthy, “Jesus, the Christ”, in Anne Hession and Patricia Kieran (eds). Exploring Theology: Making Sense of the Catholic Tradition, Dublin: Veritas, 2007, p. 101). Discuss how your study of Jesus Christ illuminates who God is, who Christians are and what the…

that Jesus is Christ, the first prediction of Jesus’ death, and a reflection of true discipleship. In the opening scene, as Jesus and the disciples are on their way to Caesarea Philippi, the reader sees that even while in route to their destination their work never ends as they grapple with the questions that Jesus asks. It seems that Mark desires to make it clear that in the eyes of Jesus, the disciples are set apart from the masses in the line of questioning he presents, showing that Jesus…

Jesus is the Alpha, the Beginning and the Principal of creation. “These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God” (Revelation 3:14). Jesus did not just exist before the beginning but He was also the beginning. Jesus is the Alpha; it means that He is the Power that brought all things into existence. Jesus was the starting power of the creation. The life of the creation was intrinsic in Jesus. The creative power was in Christ; He gave life to the…

Who was Jesus Christ? Some claim he was a prophet while others claim he is the Son of God. Some say he was a historical figure while others say he was never even here. So who is this man know as Jesus Christ? From Messianic prophecies to the coming of the Son in the end times, no matter who Jesus is to someone he is a historical figure with a background that has been documented within the Bible. The book of Isaiah was written almost seven hundred years before Jesus was born. Isaiah claims the…