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  • Religion Essays: Jesus as a Jew - The purpose of this essay is to examine what has remained an enigma for scholars of religion and believers alike since the eighteenth century. The problem is that Jesus comes to us across over two thousand years of history during which many ideas have been formulated with regard to Jesus’ identity. All those raised in the Christian faith will be familiar with the Jesus who is the Messiah; of his infancy, life and the Easter story. These ‘truths’ have been held and passed on from one generation to another since the story began. However, since the Age of Reason, the world of innocent belief was turned on its head and all that mattered was examined in minute detail under the microscope including the Gospel story. What is evolving out of the heated debate that has issued forth is a distinct division of humanity’s understanding of the identity of Jesus. In terms of what the earliest German scholars in the debate defined as the difference between ‘historisch’, the historical Jesus as opposed to the historic ‘geschichtlich’ Christ. This distinction was made by M Kahler in 1964. Read more...
  • Religion Essays: Christian Faith - The concept of “free will” is one of the defining characteristics of Christianity and therefore the ability that Christians possess to make choices about their lives is sacrosanct. It is also pertinent to note in introduction that Christians believe that death is not the end of life but the beginning of life with God and as a consequence it can be argued that from a Christian point of view death is not to be feared. On the other hand it can be argued that it may be better to die in peace and with dignity than to live with terrible pain which is likely to transfer in the form of extreme anxiety to your friends and relatives. Read more...
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