REL STD 5A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Squall, Counterintuitive, Books Of Kings
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Christianity claims jesus was the long-awaited messiah of judaism: according to ancient christian literature, jesus was a 1st century jew from hilly town ninety miles north of. Jerusalem in palestine (under roman rule, occupied by roman soldiers: after thirty years of manual labor: left his home to begin travelling public. Entered temple complex and caused commotion: met fate of disturbers of the peace" under strict roman rule, arrested and savagely beaten, then executed by torturous method of crucifixion, unlike founds of all other world religions, died young. Jesus as a miracle worker: healings, fever, bodily deformations, paralysis, blindness, leprosy (skin disorder) Get up (in aramaic) and she gets up: tells people not to tell anyone he did this, raising the dead, nain (little village): son of a widow in a coffin. Felt sorry, touches coffin raises the child: prophet elijah, 1 kings 17: same thing, lazarus (friend) dying, jesus shows up three days later, already in the tomb, exorcisms.