Who Is Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ. These worRAB identify the most significant person in human history. Who is this person Jesus? Christians may identify Jesus as the one Yahweh promised, the savior who came to rescue all people from sin and from death. The whole Christian religion rests on this person. However, doubts of his existence and teachings have been created and have been living among many people throughout the centuries since the time of his life. ThousanRAB of people around the world may have different viewpoints and beliefs, but I personally have a strong faith and truly accept Jesus as my Savior, the Son of God.

In the seventeenth century, the success of the new scientific method through Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and others generated a confidence in human reason. When reason is exalted as the sole norm of truth, that is, when the Enlightenment becomes a rationalism, there is little room for Christianity in the traditional sense. For example, Locke had exhibited a desire to empty Christianity of that which reason cannot account for, the miraculous and the supernatural, and to build a religion within the limits of reason alone. But it was with the German Enlightenment that the seeRAB of the biblical revolution were being sown. Under the influence of Deism, radical criticism of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity as enshrined in the gospel story of Jesus formed.

Many theories arose pertaining to the belief of Jesus. Apparently, the first scholar to question whether Jesus actually existed was C. F. Dupuis in 1791. The origin of Jesus in a spontaneous, myth making process was asserted by A. Drews. For P. Alfani, Jesus is a projection originating in a social movement of slaves and poor on their way to liberation and in the process of developing a consciousness of their alienation. A Haraburg language professor by the name of Herman Samuel Reimarus argued that traditional Christianity was grounded in deliberate fraud. His belief is that Jesus’ unexpected death frustrated the disciples, and, unwilling to return to their formal means of living, they invented Jesus as Lord and savior, a religious messiah. Their fraud, according to Reimarus, was successful because they contrived to steal Jesus’ corpse and invent the story of the resurrection.