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Studying The Personality Of Jesus As A Graduation Requirement

My friend Jamie 's father works with the Curriculum Committee at a college in Pennsylvania . Visiting my friend last summer , I ran into a discussion with her father about his suggestion to the Curriculum Committee to use a certain course called RS176 Jesus and His Interpreters ' as a graduation requirement for the BA degree from the college where he works . I told him that this was a noble idea . At the same time , I proposed that he 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

I explained to Jamie 's father that 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

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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 ' students 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...

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