By «Christ,» Kaufman means (and claims that at least parts of the New Testament mean) not just Jesus but «that larger, more complex reality surrounding and including and following
upon the man Jesus: the new Christian community with its spirit of love and freedom, of mutual sharing and forgiveness of one another.»
Sometimes they held that, since the true God can never suffer, the spiritual Christ descended
upon the man Jesus in the form of a dove at his baptism; Jesus then perfected his virtues and announced the Father; but before his sufferings and death the Christ withdrew again from the man Jesus, and it was only the man Jesus who suffered and died and rose again.
Not exact matches
The Lord
Jesus entered the synagogue and looked
upon the assembly and said unto them, «This
man taught me everything I know.
Just as the song begins to fit into a niche, it stops to breath, leaving nothing but the piano line and then some choir - y organ as the lyrics begin to confess, And here I stand a broken
man / If I could I would raise my hands / I come before you humbly / If I could I'd be on my knees / Come lay down your head
upon my chest / Feel my heart beat feel my unrest / If
Jesus could only wash my feet / Then I'd get up strong and muscle on.
He was a modern Moses, who was called
upon to restore the gospel of
Jesus Christ to its origins, since it had obviously become corrupted with
man's influence (many religions are proof of that.)
Now God has manifested in Christ such that the full radiant Glory of God was
upon Him in
Jesus the
man.
in the day, s that
jesus our lord was on the earth (
jesus) there was many people named
jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that
jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing
upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins,
jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married
men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets,
jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards
So, you are saying that
jesus built his church
upon a
man he calls satan?
During
Jesus» time the interpretation of the OT was weighted down with opinions and doctrines of
men and the doctors of the law loaded burdens
upon men shoulders.
He was bitterly opposed to all organized Churches and said that «Moses, Mohamet, and
Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit, or to the character of the benefactors of mankind, as any three
men that ever lived
upon the face of the earth....
Consequently he concerns himself with the historical question sufficiently seriously to trace, in one instance, the term «Son of
Man» in the Gospels, the continuity between
Jesus» message and the Church's witness: although
Jesus may never have called himself Son of
Man, he did say that acquittal by the Son of
Man in the eschatological judgement was dependent
upon one's present relation to himself (Mark 8.38 par.).
The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of
Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in
Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of
Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament
upon the earliest interpretation of the life of
Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book,
Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of
Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.
But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of
Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that
Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on
Jesus and the testing brought to bear
upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil
men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes
upon those
men, and
upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.
Even though the title «Son of God» is used in the account of the Baptism, presumably the origin of
Jesus» Messianic consciousness — as many modern scholars interpret the passage — nevertheless the whole idea of his acceptance of death is formulated in terms of the heavenly
Man who has power and authority
upon earth, (Mark 2:10, 28) who fulfills what is written of him, who dies and rises again, and is to come in glory as the supreme advocate or judge.
There people brought a deaf and dumb
man and asked
Jesus to lay his hands
upon him; here they bring a blind
man and ask
Jesus to touch him.
Jesus's obedience unto death
upon the Cross has restored mankind's obedience and made
man's spiritual self - offering again possible.
Thus in either case the judgment is pronounced
upon man not from the human standpoint, as if
man» s value were somehow immanent and securely possessed by him, but from without — according to
Jesus, of course, God is the only Judge.
They are not unimportant, as some have said, for they are part of the evidence we possess as to the impression which
Jesus made
upon men.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took
upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of
men: And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Romans, not written by
Jesus, but by Paul who drew
upon the Old Testament Wisdom of Solomon, to add a list of of reproaches not voiced by
Jesus in His quest to free
men from suffering.
And the impact of
Jesus Christ
upon history, his continuing influence and power in the world, the very wonder of his person itself that we read about in the New Testament — all point to his being more than the best of
men, making credible the conviction stated in a hymn, that in
Jesus we have «God in
man made manifest.»
«
Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of
man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once
upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»
Today as i was thinking about
Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike
men have no soul so have no eternal consequence
upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz
The resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «
Jesus Christ», has included: — his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified
man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and also what has happened as a consequence of his presence and activity in the world.
If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk of the resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «
Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified
man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence of his presence and activity in the world.
And
Jesus was a sailor When he walked
upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning
men could see him He said «All
men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them» But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.
It was in
Jesus Himself and in His impact
upon the situation that the Kingdom of God came
upon men; that God was revealed in His power and glory, to shape human life to His will.
God so energized through this particular human life, which had been divinely purposed and intended, that those
upon whom it made and continues to make its impact have been obliged to say that in this
man Jesus, God lived and wrought.
Their importance lies in their relating to us the astounding impact
upon men and women of
Jesus» life and what he accomplished.
Jesus taught that if you had two pairs of shoes and came
upon a
man with no shoes, you should give him your extra pair.
For Mark's «theological idea» was not so much the present reality of the divine person, the exalted Lord of his community, nor yet was it the glorious and unique historical person,
Jesus of Nazareth, but the mysterious, half - divine, apocalyptic «Son of
Man» who had lived incognito
upon earth, died, and risen again.
The author of the Fourth Gospel, at the point at which he is about to launch Out
upon his account of the public career of
Jesus, tells his readers what they are to look out for: «You will see heaven wide open, and God's angels ascending and descending
upon the Son of
Man.»
The follower of
Jesus is under orders, no less binding because they are not spelled out in detail; he is «the
man who hears these words of mine and acts
upon them.»
The
man Jesus would not have become the Christ of faith, if he had not been crucified, or at least taken death
upon Himself in some similar way.
This was no creation of the Gospel of Mark — indeed, Mark steps back from it, in the act of trying to prove that
Jesus was secretly the divine Son of
Man during his life
upon earth.
I certainly hope for the Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, as I would hope for myself and others with me, if found out to be of Christian faith and a modern order, not unlike the Christians who walked with
Jesus as a
man and Pastor who, as it were, was finally offered up as a sacrificial offering to God
upon a cross after being found guilty of offending the then Church of Israel who then proposed his death sentance to be carried out by a Roman Court, though he was innocent of the charges.
Except that a
man named
Jesus who was a teacher and the religion of Christianity was founded
upon did exist.
Yet even the
man Jesus is not tangible for the believer, and never has been, for it was only subsequent to the earthly life of
Jesus, that Christian faith was focussed
upon the risen
Jesus as the Christ of faith.
As
Jesus called
men to «radical obedience,» so he lived out that obedience, «intensifying his obedience to the call of God as every successive challenge in life makes its impact
upon him.»
Earlier liberalism saw in the proclamation of the Kerygma itself a stumbling block to modern
man, and thus sidled away from its eschatological message, preferring to center
upon the ethical dimension of Christian faith as this was expressed in the life and teaching of
Jesus.
But the only reason people looked
upon Jesus in this way at that time (few look
upon Jesus in that way now), is because
Jesus had incarnated Himself among
men and had taken the sin of the world
upon Himself so that He died among the wicked (Isa 53:9), bearing
upon Himself the curse of the cross, and even crying out that He had been forsaken by God (Matt 27:46).
It arises in the shared experience of the community of those who through
Jesus of Nazareth and what has followed
upon his life have discovered that God stands by
man even when
man is in the wrong.
It has also been proved by experience that the spread of Christianity is not dependent solely
upon the appeal of
Jesus to the consciences and aspirations of
men.
To the Christian,
Jesus is more than a great, good
man who has exerted an influence
upon the course of Western civilization.
Yet if
Jesus were God and not
man at all, there was no ground for the author of the fourth Gospel to say, «And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth» (John 1:14), or for the church to build its faith
upon this foundation throughout the centuries.
In taking the sins of
men upon himself,
Jesus, however, had done more than Moses and Elijah.
that
Jesus (peace be
upon him) is a
man and a prophet not a God.
«Perhaps the «sign of the Son of
man» will be a gigantic celestial image of
Jesus flashed
upon the heavens for all to see.
My own faith in him and loyalty to him as the Lord
Jesus Christ is in no way dependent on these apocalyptic Son - of -
man passages; it hinges
upon all that he was and did and said during what we know of his earthly ministry and his continuing presence as the living Christ.
I mean if God did well enough to see fit to install this perfect plan called salvation before the foundation of
man, that who so ever believes that
Jesus took not only one for the team or mankind but all of the sins of mankind
upon Himself, that in this gift provides freedom liberty and justification?