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About the life of Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ (also called Christ the king and Jesus the Christ) was born in Israel 2000 years ago. Modern civilization marks his birth by dividing time B.C. (before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini - or the year of our Lord Jesus Christ). For his first thirty years, Jesus Christ lived a traditional Jewish life, working as a carpenter. During this time, all of Israel was under Caesar's Roman dictatorship, including Bethlehem, where Jesus Christ was born, and Nazareth, where he was raised. In his thirties, Jesus Christ began his public teaching and display of recorded miracles, yet still never travelled more than 200 miles from his birthplace. Over a three year period, despite his efforts to keep a low profile, Jesus Christ's reputation spread nation wide. The Roman governors and rulers of Israel's provinces and the leaders of the Jewish people (the religious counsels) took note of him. Jesus Christ's key messages included: Jesus Christ's most controversial act was that he repeatedly claimed to be God, which was a direct violation of the Jewish law. Therefore the religious leaders asked the Roman government to execute him. In each of several official trials, the Romans found that he was not guilty of breaking any Roman law. Even the Jewish leaders recognized that other than Jesus Christ's claim to be God, Jesus Christ followed the Jewish law perfectly. Still the religious leaders, using the argument of political disfavor, persuaded Pilate, a Roman governor of the Southern province of Israel, to authorize an execution. Jesus Christ was brutally tortured and then hung by his hands, which were nailed to a horizontal wooden beam (cross). This method of execution restricted the airflow to his lungs, killing him in three hours. However, according to more than 500 witnesses, Jesus Christ returned from the dead three days later, and over the next 40 days journeyed in both the southern and northern provinces of Israel. To many, this was conclusive proof that Jesus Christ's claims to be God were real. Then Jesus Christ returned to Jerusalem, the city where he was recently executed, and according to witnesses, he left the earth alive by rising up into the sky. As a result of these miraculous events, the number of his followers increased dramatically. Only a few months later in that same city of Jerusalem one record states that some 3000 new followers were added in a single day. The religious leaders responded by trying to stomp out Jesus Christ's followers. Many of these people chose to die rather than deny their belief that their Lord Jesus Christ was truly God. Within 100 years, people throughout the Roman empire (Asia Minor, Europe) became followers of Jesus Christ. In 325 AD, the following of Jesus Christ, Christianity, became the official religion of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Within 500 years, even Greece's temples of Greek gods were transformed into churches for followers of Jesus Christ. Although some of Jesus Christ's messages and teachings were diluted or miscommunicated through the expansion of a religious institution, Jesus Christ's original words and life still speak loudly for themselves.
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God is Love: How do we Define Love?
God is Love, but how do we define it? The American Heritage Dictionary defines love as an intense affection for another person based on familial or personal ties. Often this intense affection stems from a sexual attraction for that other person. We love other people, or we say we love other people, when we are attracted to them and when they make us feel good. Notice that a key phrase in the dictionary definition of love is the phrase based on. This phrase implies that we love conditionally; in other words, we love someone because they fulfill a condition that we require before we can love them. How many times have you heard or said, I love you because you are cute; or I love you because you take good care of me; or I love you because you are fun to be with?
Our love is not only conditional, it is also mercurial. We love based on feelings and emotions that can change from one moment to the next. The divorce rate is extremely high in today`s society because husbands and wives supposedly stop loving one another-or they fall out of love. They may go through a rough patch in their marriage, and they no longer feel love for their spouse, so they call it quits. Evidently, their marriage vow of till death do us part means they can part at the death of their love for their spouse rather than at their physical death.
Can anyone really comprehend unconditional love? It seems the love that parents have for their children is as close to unconditional love as we can get without the help of God`s love in our lives. We continue to love our children through good times and bad, and we don`t stop loving them if they don`t meet the expectations we may have for them. We make a choice to love our children even when we consider them unlovable; our love doesn`t stop when we don`t feel love for them. This is similar to God`s love for us, but as we shall see, God`s love transcends the human definition of love to a point that is hard for us to comprehend.
God is Love: How does God Define Love?
The Bible tells us that God is Love ''1 John 4:8''. But how can we even begin to understand that truth? There are many passages in the Bible that give us God`s definition of love. The most well known verse is John 3:16, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. So one way God defines love is in the act of giving. However, what God gave ''or should we say, who God gave'' was not a mere gift-wrapped present; God sacrificed His only Son so that we, who put our faith in His Son, will not spend eternity separated from Him. This is an amazing love, because we are the ones who choose to be separated from God through our own sin, yet it`s God who mends the separation through His intense personal sacrifice, and all we have to do is accept His gift.
Another great verse about God`s love is found in Romans 5:8, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. In this verse and in John 3:16, we find no conditions placed on God`s love for us. God doesn`t say, as soon as you clean up your act, I`ll love you; nor does He say, I`ll sacrifice my Son if you promise to love Me. In fact, in Romans 5:8, we find just the opposite. God wants us to know that His love is unconditional, so He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us while we were still unlovable sinners. We didn`t have to get clean, and we didn`t have to make any promises to God before we could experience His love. His love for us has always existed, and because of that, He did all the giving and sacrificing long before we were even aware that we needed His love.
God is Love: It`s Unconditional
God is Love, and His love is very different from human love. God`s love is unconditional, and it`s not based on feelings or emotions. He doesn`t love us because we`re lovable or because we make Him feel good; He loves us because He is love. He created us to have a loving relationship with Him, and He sacrificed His own Son ''who also willingly died for us'' to restore that relationship.By: Olivia Babirye
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