In the days when Herod was king of Judea, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth in Galilee to announce to a virgin named Mary, who was betrothed to a man named Joseph, that a child would be born to her and she was to name him Jesus , for he would be the son of God and rule over Israel forever.
The earliest followers of Jesus were apocalyptic Jewish Christians. The early Christian groups were strictly Jewish , such as the Ebionites and the early Christian community in Jerusalem, led by James, the brother of Jesus.
The original Messiah was the Essene “Teacher of Righteousness”. He was 60 years old and his name was Judah.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God , and the Word was God . John 1:1 opens the larger section sometimes described as the “Prologue to John” (John 1:1–18) which deals with Jesus, the “Word made flesh” who “dwelt among us” (John 1:14).
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Jesus’ name in Hebrew was “ Yeshua ” which translates to English as Joshua .
The date of birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any historical reference, but most theologians assume a year of birth between 6 and 4 BC.
The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म: “the Eternal Way “), which refers to the idea that its origins lie beyond human history, as revealed in the Hindu texts.
In the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 3:14), Yahweh , the personal name of God, is revealed directly to Moses .
Defenders of religion have countered that the question is improper: We ask, “If all things have a creator, then who created God?” Actually, only created things have a creator, so it’s improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed.
Jesus of Nazareth (c. 4 BC – 30/33 AD), leader of a Jewish sect who was crucified by the Roman Empire for sedition and is believed by Christians to have been resurrected. Jews who believed him to be the Messiah were originally called Nazarenes and later they were known as Jewish Christians (the first Christians).
Self-deification
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Mitsuo Matayoshi | 20th century |
Meher Baba | ~1930 |
Mita | ~1940 |
Jim Jones | 1955 |
The document says Jews and Christians in fact share the wait for the Messiah , though Jews are waiting for the first coming, and Christians for the second.
Psalm 90:2 says, “From forever in the past to forever in the future, you are God .” — Common English Bible. This God is so unlimited in power that time and space cannot bind Him or define Him. He created a universe that has no beginning and no end (Genesis 1:1).
none of his disciples had any inkling at all that he was God . During his lifetime, Jesus himself didn’t call himself God and didn’t consider himself God , and none of his disciples had any inkling at all that he was God . You do find Jesus calling himself God in the Gospel of John, or the last Gospel.
The earliest Christians maintained that Jesus was a human being who was made God – a god – a divine being. Later they ended up saying that Jesus was born to the union of God and a mortal because the Holy Spirit came upon Mary and that’s how she conceived Jesus , so Jesus literally had God as his father.