Religion

The Personality of Jesus

To : Dr . Sherrie Guerrero

Chair of the Curriculum Committee

SBVC

Subject : New Graduation Requirement for AA Degree from SBVC

Dated : 26 February 2007

Dear Dr . Sherrie Guerrero

Using RS176 Jesus and His Interpreters ' as a graduation requirement for the AA degree from SBVC is a noble idea . However , I would like to propose that the Curriculum Committee should consider beginning a new course called The Personality of Jesus ' to be used in place of RS176 This is because it is of greater importance for graduating

students to learn about the personality of Jesus - a man of true substance - before these students may go on to begin their families and careers with knowledge about a perfectly ethical and honest character in the history of mankind

The New Testament , in particular the Gospels of Matthew , Mark , and Luke portray Jesus as an extraordinary man with outstanding abilities all of which were attributable to Jesus ' piety . The man was a religious master , with perfect authority over everything in the Heaven and the Earth . The non-Biblical portrait of Jesus is not very far from the truth presented in the Bible , regardless of whether we believe that the Bible is the absolute truth or not . The non-canonical Gospel of Thomas does also represent the man called Jesus possessing extraordinary strength . Lastly , there is a picture of Jesus represented by historians . Although the historians may debate about the real place of Jesus ' birth , and the nature of his miracles - nobody has ever claimed anything negative about the man . Hence , it is of little or no consequence what Jesus ' interpreters have gathered about the man . After all , some may even assume that Jesus never was . Nevertheless , the vast majority of people on Earth do believe in the man . These people understand that Jesus ' personality was , indeed , extraordinary , and anybody could use him as a model of perfect behavior

In The Personality of Jesus ' we should be looking at Jesus as a man , seeing that he referred to himself as the Son of Man , and also stated that the Father is greater than he . So even though Jesus appeared to possess abilities that ordinary men did not have , he encouraged his disciples to follow him one hundred percent , also with respect to controlling the human body , which could walk on water in Jesus ' case and that of his disciples who would follow the great man without a doubt . In other words , Jesus believed that it was possible for loyal believers in him to become one with the great soul

Studying The Personality of Jesus ' should appeal to all graduating students , even those who have by now disbelieved in Jesus As a matter of fact , the nature of disbelief entails that one may disbelieve in anything whatsoever , even facts that have been related by historians . Why should I believe in a historian ' - someone might say . And so , in the case of disbelief in Jesus , it is absolutely irrelevant to give due consideration to disbelief...