Jesus Christ Research Paper

Jesus Christ is the most famous person ever lived and even in our day when so many forces are orchestrated against religion, and especially against Christianity, virtually every nation on earth and the smallest child in the remotest part of this planet earth knows something about Jesus Christ. All major religions know about Jesus Christ and although the three most important of them, Judaism, Christianity and Islam do not view Jesus Christ in the same way, nevertheless they accord him a significant role in their understanding and chronology of religion. There is so much that is known of Jesus Christ. Were you to consult an encyclopaedia about him you would get reams and reams of information and yet all that information would not tell you some …show more content…
Public non-corporate prayers were meant to be genuine displays of humility, submission to God and divine communication but the Jews and especially their leaders were pompous, arrogant and exhibitionistic in their prayers to the extent that as they were on their way to the synagogue they would stop at street corners and places where they would be seen and pray openly so that people could see how devout they were. Jesus condemned this with his own dose of radicalism and told the people, "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." (Matthew 6:5-6) Jesus pulled no punches here; …show more content…
This notion of Xenophobia is not new and the Jews, with their history of subjugation by foreigners and enemies especially from the north, had taken it to new heights. Jesus knew the danger this contained, like ethnic cleansing for example, and was having none of it. His radicalism once again shone forth when he taught, "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same?" (Matthew

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