7 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
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would also be quite probable that the prophet’s life would be a perfect life,
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Sources for the History of Jesus
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New Testament:
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LA FONTE PRINCIPALE
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four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the letters
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Paul’s letters which are almost certainly genuine
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written about AD 50;
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Scholars differ about when those Gospels achieved their final form, but an average view might date Mark’s Gospel at AD 70, and those of Matthew and Luke at AD 80.
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Acts of the Apostles.
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Christians closely associated with the Church’s leadership.
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John’s Gospel reached its finished form by perhaps about AD 90,
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Luke was claiming to write a basically historical work; and so he must have understood Mark’s Gospel,
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Matthew understood Mark in the same way;
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Most of the Acts of the Apostles reads like any other contemporary work of history,
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general agreement between the synoptic Gospels
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The four Roman governors
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four kings of Judaea,
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it is rational to believe what others tell us
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understand what people say (or write) in its most natural literal sense,
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Many of the early Christians were killed for refusing to deny Christian doctrines
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they had firm beliefs in those doctrines.
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differences of detail
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The extent of agreement between the various writers about the main events
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synoptic Gospels all recorded the baptism
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ancient historians do not have such precise standards of accuracy as do modern historians.
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he affirms solemnly that he or his immediate source were witnesses of the events recorded
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In the other Gospels too there are a few stories which we may reasonably suspect of being metaphysical fables,
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the stories of Jesus’s birth contained in Matthew and Luke, are of this kind.
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literally true history
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The Miracles of Jesus and the Virgin Birth
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The major reason which many people have for supposing that some Gospel incidents did not occur is that, if they had occurred,
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‘miracle stories’
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Maybe the son of the widow of Nain was not really dead when Jesus told him to get up
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the instantaneous recovery from leprosy
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if there is a God, he makes the laws of nature operate and can set them aside
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in order to put his signature on the work of Jesus,
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if miracles occur, they occur only very rarely.
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The one exception for which we do have quite a bit of such evidence is the Resurrection
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much more probable that the other lesser miracles associated with his life also occurred.
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the Virgin Birth.
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a further divine signature on the life of Jesus—a
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But, as with the other purported miracles apart from the Resurrection, there is a shortage of witnesses and physical evidence.
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accounts of Jesus’s birth otherwise very different
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one fully reliable source of the story of the Virgin Birth, Mary herself.
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two reasons why, if it is true, the story might have surfaced only later than the first few years after the death of Jesus.
Note:DUE RAGIONI
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the testimony of one woman did not in the view of contemporary Jews constitute good witness evidence.
Note:PRIMA RAGIONE... LA TESTIMONIANZA DELLA DONNA PRESSO I GIUDEI
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Mary would surely have seen that she would not be believed,
Note:SeCONDA RAGIONE... Un FIVLIO ILLEGITTIMO ATTENUA L ATTENDIBILITÀ
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God provided a (less evident) signature on the life of Jesus also at its beginning.
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Jesus Led a Perfect Life Involving Suffering
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the life of Jesus was a perfect human life which involved much suffering.
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only from their public behaviour.
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Jesus ate with society’s outcasts as well as eating with the Pharisees,
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[Jesus] differed from both his contemporaries and even his prophetic predecessors.
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Tax collectors were notorious for trying to extract from citizens
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when Jesus went to stay with the tax collector Zacchaeus, people complained,
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To teach people about God,
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Prayer and religious experience played an important part in the life of Jesus,
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The fact that Jesus sought baptism from John the Baptist would only suggest that he considered himself a sinner,
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the life of Jesus was the life of a wandering teacher,
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he voluntarily allowed himself to be arrested under circumstances where death was a likely outcome.
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total dedication
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charge against Jesus at his trial before the Jewish leaders was that of blasphemy;
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claims which Jesus made were (if he was God Incarnate) claims which he had the right to make,
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Jesus Claimed to Be Divine
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it may simply mean ‘Messiah’ or even just ‘a righteous person’.
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the words of Jesus are such as we would expect if Jesus did teach that he was divine.
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Jesus did not say explicitly and openly during his earthly life (before whatever happened after his Crucifixion) ‘I am God’.
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This is a difficult concept to grasp.
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would have been understood as a claim to be a pagan god,
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identification of a contemporary historical figure with God would have been inconceivable
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he proclaimed his divinity more openly after his Resurrection
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to baptize ‘in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’
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Matthew’s Gospel records that disciples ‘worshipped’ Jesus;
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quoting the Old Testament command ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve only him’,
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I think that Jesus did claim divinity by his actions and (implicitly) by his words during his earthly life.
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blasphemy.
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‘You will see the Son of Man [a term which Jesus used elsewhere to refer to himself] seated at the right hand of power’, and ‘coming with the clouds of Heaven’,
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Caiaphas responded with ‘You have heard his blasphemy.
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witnesses testified that Jesus said that he would or could destroy the Temple and build in three days ‘another Temple not made with hands’.
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Mark described this accusation as ‘false’.
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Another way in which Jesus made his claim to divinity was by forgiving sins.
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Jesus showed himself to be fully human, acting in ignorance and weakness, and being subject to temptation.
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Jesus Claimed to Make Atonement for Human Sins
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Jesus gave to his disciples bread and wine with the words ‘This is my body’ and ‘This is my blood’.
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Jesus Provided Plausible ‘Revealed’ Teaching on God and Morality
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Jesus assumed in his teaching that God was the all-powerful, all-knowing creator of the world. He taught people that God loves them,
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the Ten Commandments
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The observance of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving
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Jesus did, however, teach that following himself was more important than observing the Law;
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the way of living towards God and our fellows which Jesus commended is a good way to live.
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it is unclear just how much of Jesus’s teaching concerns our moral obligations and how much is simply advice about how to become morally perfect,
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God has the right to command us to do certain actions which would not be otherwise obligatory,
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Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10: 29–37), with its clear message that one’s neighbour is anyone,
Note:UN COMANDO IMPEGNATIVO
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one very detailed new piece of instruction on our moral obligations. This concerns divorce.
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absolute ban
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except in the case of ‘unchastity’
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Jesus taught that there will be a ‘Parousia’, that is, the world will come to an end
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there would be a ‘Last Judgement’,
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divide the good from the bad.
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The standard of behaviour for getting to Heaven was a high one.
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separation of the good and the bad would be permanent.
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Jesus’s parable of two slaves:
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who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating’
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no Hell for those who do not fully realize
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Jesus is reported to have said some things relevant to the doctrine of the Trinity,
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explicit assertion of the doctrine of the Trinity would without any doubt have been understood as a proclamation of the polytheism
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Jesus nevertheless clearly distinguished himself sharply from God the Father.
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there is much material in the New Testament about the work of the Holy Spirit,
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Jesus Founded a Church
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there were twelve chief followers
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though the lists of the Twelve in the Gospels differ slightly
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twelve tribes deriving from twelve tribe-founding individuals.
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Jesus or the Holy Spirit would continue to guide the Church
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Conclusion
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