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However, the Pauline letters clearly indicate that for Paul, Jesus was a real person (born of a woman as in Gal 4.4), a Jew ("born under the law", Romans 1.3) who had disciples (1 Corinthians 15.5), who was crucified (as in 1 Corinthians 2.2 and Galatians 3.1) and later resurrected (1 Corinthians 15.20, Romans 1.4 and 6.5, Philippians 3:10–11).
The historicity of Jesus is the question of whether Jesus historically existed (as opposed to being a purely mythological figure). The question of historicity was generally settled in scholarship in the early 20th century. [ 1][ 2][ 3][ note 1] Today scholars agree that a Jewish man named Jesus of Nazareth did exist in the Herodian Kingdom of ...
t. e. The Second Coming is a Christian and Islamic concept regarding the return of Jesus to Earth after his first coming and his ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago. The belief is based on messianic prophecies found in the canonical gospels and is part of most Christian eschatologies. Views about the nature of Jesus' Second Coming ...
William Price (1800–1893), a Welsh Neo-Druid, who claimed that two of his sons were Jesus. Arnold Potter (1804–1872), Schismatic Latter Day Saint leader; he claimed the spirit of Jesus Christ entered into his body and he became "Potter Christ" Son of the living God. He died in an attempt to "ascend into heaven" by jumping off a cliff.
The brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi ( Greek: ἀδελφοί, translit. adelphoí, lit. "of the same womb") [ 1][ Notes 1] are named in the New Testament as James, Joses (a form of Joseph), Simon, Jude, [ 2] and unnamed sisters are mentioned in Mark and Matthew. [ 3] They may have been: (1) the sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph ...
According to Chris Keith, a historical Jesus is "ultimately unattainable, but can be hypothesized on the basis of the interpretations of the early Christians, and as part of a larger process of accounting for how and why early Christians came to view Jesus in the ways that they did."
The race and appearance of Jesus, widely accepted by researchers to be a Judean from Galilee, [ 1] has been a topic of discussion since the days of early Christianity. Various theories about the race of Jesus have been proposed and debated. [ 2][ 3] By the Middle Ages, a number of documents, generally of unknown or questionable origin, had been ...
Two names and a variety of titles are used to refer to Jesus in the New Testament. [ 1] In Christianity, the two names Jesus and Emmanuel that refer to Jesus in the New Testament have salvific attributes. [ 2][ 3][ 4] After the crucifixion of Jesus the early Church did not simply repeat his messages, but focused on him, proclaimed him, and ...