Questions tagged [life-of-jesus]
For questions about the life of Jesus, including his birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension. Use [christology] for questions about his nature, his offices, and his relationship with God the Father and the Holy Spirit.
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How do i answer someone who argues that the phrase: "I am the way, the truth, & the life...." (John 14:6) is true for all Prophets & not just Jesus?
John 14:6: Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me..”
A Jewish professor that I know argues that this statement is true for all prophets ...
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Does any Catholic Church in the West have image of Jesus squatting on the ground?
We read in Jn 8:2-6 (KJV):
Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a ...
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How do non-trinitarians interpret the following verses [closed]
If Jesus saves, but as we will see, only God saves, wouldn't that mean that Jesus is God?
I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour besides me. Isaiah 43:11 (DRA)
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Did the brightness of the glory of God cause a physical change in the color of the hair of the Lord Jesus Christ?
I have been reading the Book of Revelation and it sounds as if the current color of the hair of Jesus is white as wool but the disciples of Jesus saw it in the resurrected body and it was in the same ...
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Are Christians ignoring that Jesus was to be from King David's line and not Yahweh's line? [closed]
Are Christians ignoring that Jesus was to be from King David's line and not Yahweh's?
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What is the purpose of God (the father) if Jesus created everything; died for our sins; will be the judge on Judgment Day; and will rule afterwards?
It is claimed that Jesus, Father, Holy Spirit are equals and each is God in their own right. But God (the father) gives orders to the other two and they DO HIS WILL. Nevertheless, Christianity seems ...
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Was Jesus fully man and fully God inside Mary's womb?
As a devout Jewish woman, Mary must have prayed for the safety of her pregnancy. If Jesus was fully man & fully God; was he (in his divine nature) the one answering Mary's prayers, when she prayed ...
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Did Jesus the Christ practise Judaism?
I read the following on the internet:
Jesus continued practicing Judaism, per Luke 4:16 ("as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read").
The ...
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Where in the New Testament is God described as a Yahweh?
God is described as Yahweh passim in the Old Testament, but where in the New Testament is God described as a Yahweh?
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Was Jesus a Jew at all? [duplicate]
First of all: what I mean here by “Jew” is nationality/race and not religion. The question of whether Jesus was a Jew therefore means whether Jesus was an Israeli, i.e. a descendant of Jacob/Israel. ...
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My question is for Unitarians? When Jesus was on earth in bodily form He could only be in one place at a time. Reconcile this with Matthew 18:20
Matthew 18:20, "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst." The same idea is also expressed at John 14:23, "Jesus answered and said to him, &...
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Struggling w/ Jesus and Jewish law
Struggling with this question regarding Jesus as a messiah given Jewish prophecy. With regards to formatting of this post, I recently had a stroke and so have to use speech to text; I mean no ...
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The LDS church teaches that the universe has no beginning... thus no original god creator [closed]
If this is so... how do we arrive at today? Without a starting point, time cannot begin to move forward and we would never come to exist. An eternal future is possible but an eternal past is not. ...
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Are the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John related to the Old Covenant (Old Testament, Hebrew Bible)?
Are the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John related to the Old Covenant (Old Testament, Hebrew Bible) since the Testator (Jesus), who lived, preached, and performed miracles within it, had not ...
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Did Jesus write a letter to King Abgar of Edessa?
One gets to read in National Catholic Register, the text of a letter alleged to have been written by Jesus in response to the letter from King Abgar of Edessa requesting the Lord to heal him :
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Was it rude for Jesus to call his own mother 'woman'? [closed]
A friend who is studying theology asked me if it was rude of Jesus to call his own mother 'woman' when he was about to perform his first miracle at Cana of Galilee.
John 2:4
“Woman, why do you ...
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Praying for Conversion will be right?
Actually me and my girlfriend are in a relationship from 7 months. But the problem is we are from different religions. We can't lose eachother. As I know I worship the True God Jesus.
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Did Satan physically touch Jesus in the Desert?
We read in Matthew 4 how Jesus was tempted in the desert. First temptation goes like this:
The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”.
Note the ...
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Was Jesus physically anointed by someone?
We hear Jesus saying in Lk 4:18:
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
We see a number of chosen persons in OT getting anointed for specific ...
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Why isn’t Jesus just rebuking the devil?
In Luke 4:1-12, Jesus is getting tempted by the devil. Three times he responds with the Scriptures instead of rebuking the devil. Why doesn’t Jesus just say, “I rebuke you Satan!” At the first ...
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Why did Pilate use the attribute of Messiah for Jesus?
In an example of exceptional cases, NIV of Mtt 27:17 reads:
When the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the ...
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Is Jesus Christ Really a Jew or Jewish? [duplicate]
According to Matthew 2:23 Luke 1:4 Jesus is a Galilean from ""Nazareth"", Galilee was part of "Israel" not Judah/Judea, Galilee was a Roman province and the Tetrarchy of ...
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The Fast of the Third Month
Relative to research I'm doing, I wanted to pick the brains of the community at large and see if anyone had an answer to a question.
Josephus states that Pompey took Jerusalem in the third month (...
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Why is Michael mentioned in an end time prophecy detailing the resurrection and the judgment if he is not Jesus Christ?
The angel Gabriel foretells what many Christians interpret to be the Great Tribulation, followed by salvation of the saints and the judgment of the wicked.
Daniel 12:1-3
“At that time Michael shall ...
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Why did Jewish leaders change their mind on the arrest and execution of Jesus?
We read in Mtt 26:3-5(NIV);
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembles in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and ...
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The transfiguration of Jesus at the Mountain
Why Moses? Why Elijah? Why not Enoch? I say this because Elijah was taken up into the heavens, same for Enoch, but it is mentioned in scripture that Moses clearly died
What made the disciples think ...
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Is the beast in Revelation 19, a man? [closed]
Scripture says that Jesus will make war on the enemies of God from a horse and his sword will be the word of his mouth. It looks like the devil will lead an army of men into a war against Jesus' ...
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Is Jesus the first creative work of God according to Revelation 3:14?
The Book of Revelation narrates of a story where an angel is ordered to write down the words of Jesus and Jesus here is referred to us the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's ...
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If Jesus is arch-angel Michael then he was created? [closed]
The Jehovah witness and Seventh Day Adventist denominations believe that Jesus is the arch-angel Michael. The reasons for this belief is based on the Biblical verses that Jesus will shout with the ...
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Did Jesus miraculously create a new set of clothes after he rose from the dead?
The Bible narrates that after Jesus died on the cross then Joseph of Arimathea took his body down from the cross and wrapped it in a linen clothing. They then buried him inside a tomb but then after ...
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"I am" or "I was"?
"I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
John 8:58 (NIV)
Is this a grammatical error? Or is it because the Trinity does not experience time as we do,...
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Question about Jesus and a book
Muslims says Jesus gave a book when he came as prophet and then over time Christians corrupted that book is that true?
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Whom and/or what did Moses and Elijah represent in the Transfiguration?
We read in Mtt 17:1-3 (NKJV):
Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like ...
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In Matthew 16:24 Jesus tells His disciples to pick up their crosses and follow Him. How would they have understood what He was saying?
In Matt 16:24 Jesus tells His disciples to pick up their crosses and follow Him. How would the apostles have understood what He was saying? He spoke these words before He was crucified, so the mention ...
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Was Jesus a married man?
I was very confused about this so many times. According to Leonardo da Vinci's painting some said that Jesus was a married man. Does the Catholic Church hide any truth?
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When did Jesus first introduce himself as Son of God?
We read in Mtt 16:13-16:
When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah;...
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Why would Jesus turn water into wine - psychoactive, cancerogenous substance
It has been confirmed scientifically by Oxford Population Health researchers that there is direct link between alcohol consumption and significantly increased likelihood of developing malign types of ...
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Logical Paradox of Saving Faith in Jesus Christ? [closed]
To provide more context addressing the seemingly unfit and vague closing reason, this is a follow up question from one of my comment threads of my previous question.
Suppose 1000 people are ...
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A specific difference between Christianity and other religions
I remember once saw a Youtube video of some Christian priest mentioned about a specific difference between Christianity and other religions, namely in all other religions the messengers or founders ...
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Why didn't God call the unrighteous dead to life up to Jesus crucifixion
After Jesus died on the cross at Calvary, many of the saints who were dead rose from the dead and appeared To many in Jerusalem. Since a resurrection involving a huge number of people such as this has ...
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How do people who claim Jesus is God defend this when God and Jesus can have two different wills?
So Jesus after seeing a vision of the suffering he would go through to pay the atonement required to save mankind from the gates of hell, offered a prayer to God asking him to remove that cup of ...
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Significance of the darkness before Jesus' death?
Before Jesus cried out to God on why he had abandoned him.The Bible tells us that it was noon which means that it was midday, and darkness covered the whole land for three hours till the ninth hour. ...
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Why do some Christians believe it was a pole and not a cross? [duplicate]
If you learn some history about the Roman Empire then you will learn that they used to crucify subjects in the conquered territories. The might of the Roman Empire reached the Germanic tribe called ...
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What are the attributes of the Soul of Christ?
The short prayer Anima Christi starts like this: "Soul of Christ, sanctify me". We rarely come across the concept of the Soul of Christ in the Gospels. One such instance is in John 12, where ...
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Why didn't the apostles keep track of years after Jesus ascension?
Apart from preaching the good news to the Gentiles and the Jews, did the apostles have a responsibility to keep track of the number of years passed since Jesus Christ was taken up in a cloud to heaven....
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When did Jesus launch his public ministry?
Luke 4:16-21 NIV
16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet ...
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Christian meals and/or foods linked to Jesus Christ in the New Testament and the saints?
Can anyone link me to a source for Christian meal foods that can be linked to a particular day in the life of Jesus and particular events in the lives of Christian saints.
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What is the special significance of the term ' signs' in relation to the miracles of Jesus?
We read in Jn 6:26:
Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.
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What is the biblical basis for the argument that the 'mission of Jesus' was to 'restore humanity to a state of sinless purity'?
The teachings of the Unification Church are based on the Bible but with new interpretations, and Moon saw his role as completing the unfulfilled mission of Jesus to restore humanity to a state of “...
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Did Jesus believe and teach that God loved all people?
Jesus was raised as a Jew in a Jewish culture. All Jewish male children, starting at age 5, were taught the Torah and were required to memorized parts of Torah, along with how to read and write. ...
