Nbadan
12-25-2009, 04:22 AM
Serious discussion...Was Jesus real or was he born of the son of gospels?
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Scholars have used the historical method to develop probable reconstructions of Jesus' life.[99] Over the past two hundred years, the image of Jesus among historical scholars has come to be very different from the common image of Jesus that was based on the gospels.[100] Scholars of historical Jesus distinguish their subject from the "Jesus Christ" of Christianity.[8] Other scholars hold that Jesus as presented in the gospels is the real Jesus and that his life and influence only make sense if the gospel stories are accurate.[101][102][103] The principal sources of information regarding Jesus' life and teachings are the Gospels, especially the Synoptic Gospels: Mark, Matthew, and Luke. Including the Gospels, there are no surviving historical accounts of Jesus written during his life or within three decades of his death.[104] A great majority of biblical scholars and historians accept the historical existence of Jesus.[105][106][107][108][109]
The English title of Albert Schweitzer's 1906 book, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, is a label for the post-Enlightenment effort to describe Jesus using critical historical methods.[110] Since the end of the 18th century, scholars have examined the gospels and tried to formulate historical biographies of Jesus.[99] Contemporary efforts benefit from a better understanding of 1st-century Judaism, renewed Roman Catholic biblical scholarship, broad acceptance of critical historical methods, sociological insights, and literary analysis of Jesus' sayings.[110]
Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_christ)
Aside from these few conclusions, academic studies remain inconclusive about the chronology, the central message of Jesus' preaching, his social class, cultural environment, and religious orientation. Scholars offer competing descriptions of Jesus as the awaited Messiah, as a self-described Messiah, as the leader of an apocalyptic movement, as an itinerant sage, as a charismatic healer, and as the founder of an independent religious movement.....one thing we know for sure, his birthday wasn't celebrated on Dec. 25 until centuries after his death...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Ary_Scheffer_-_The_Temptation_of_Christ_%281854%29.jpg
Scholars have used the historical method to develop probable reconstructions of Jesus' life.[99] Over the past two hundred years, the image of Jesus among historical scholars has come to be very different from the common image of Jesus that was based on the gospels.[100] Scholars of historical Jesus distinguish their subject from the "Jesus Christ" of Christianity.[8] Other scholars hold that Jesus as presented in the gospels is the real Jesus and that his life and influence only make sense if the gospel stories are accurate.[101][102][103] The principal sources of information regarding Jesus' life and teachings are the Gospels, especially the Synoptic Gospels: Mark, Matthew, and Luke. Including the Gospels, there are no surviving historical accounts of Jesus written during his life or within three decades of his death.[104] A great majority of biblical scholars and historians accept the historical existence of Jesus.[105][106][107][108][109]
The English title of Albert Schweitzer's 1906 book, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, is a label for the post-Enlightenment effort to describe Jesus using critical historical methods.[110] Since the end of the 18th century, scholars have examined the gospels and tried to formulate historical biographies of Jesus.[99] Contemporary efforts benefit from a better understanding of 1st-century Judaism, renewed Roman Catholic biblical scholarship, broad acceptance of critical historical methods, sociological insights, and literary analysis of Jesus' sayings.[110]
Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_christ)
Aside from these few conclusions, academic studies remain inconclusive about the chronology, the central message of Jesus' preaching, his social class, cultural environment, and religious orientation. Scholars offer competing descriptions of Jesus as the awaited Messiah, as a self-described Messiah, as the leader of an apocalyptic movement, as an itinerant sage, as a charismatic healer, and as the founder of an independent religious movement.....one thing we know for sure, his birthday wasn't celebrated on Dec. 25 until centuries after his death...