Jesus
Life of Christ
Writing a paper on the Historical Jesus; Jesus as Messiah; and Jesus as my Personal Savior has been a huge task for me. As I began to look on the internet, read the Bible, speak to my Pastor, and ask friends if they had read any books on the topic of The Historical Jesus. I felt like I was coming up empty handed, after days of exhaustive and futile research, I became discouraged. Then a friend loaned me a book written by Huston Smith, The World's Religions, in the confines of that book I found the words that fit perfectly into this paper. "Christianity is basically a historical religion. That is to say, it is founded not on abstract principles but in concrete events, actual historical happenings. The most important of these is the life of a Jewish carpenter who was often pointed out was born in a stable, was executed as a criminal at age thirty-three, never traveled more than ninety miles from his birthplace, owned nothing, attended no college,......
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