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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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One Solitary Life - Anonymous Author
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. Until He was thirty, He worked in a carpenter shop and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He wrote no books. He held no office. He never owned a home. He was never in a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born. He never did any of the things that usually accompany greatness. The authorities condemned His teachings. His friends deserted Him. One betrayed Him to His enemies for a paltry sum. One denied Him. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed on a cross between two thieves. While He was dying, His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He owned on earth: His coat. When He was dead He was taken down and placed in a borrowed grave. Nineteen centuries have come and gone, yet today He is the crowning glory of the human race, the adored leader of hundreds of millions of the earth`s inhabitants. All the armies that ever marched and all the Navies that were ever assembled and all the parliaments that ever sat and all the rulers that ever reigned - combined - have not affected the life of man upon this earth so profoundly as that One Solitary Life.



By: Editors - March 28, 2007 - Public
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the real answer to your question
IF ANY OF YOU  HAVE ANY QUISTIONS OR DOUBTS ABOUT JESUS YOU WILL FIND THE ANSWERS IN THE BIBLE SO READ YOUR BIBLE... BUT THE REAL QUISTION IS ARE SAVED? WHERE WILL YOU GO IF YOU DIE? BECAUSE THERE IS A HEAVEN AND A HELL AND ONE DAY GOD WILL COME FOR THOSE WHO RECIEVED HIM AND LIVED FOR HIM AND NOT FOR THE WORLD SO MY QUISTION IS IF GOD WERE TO COME TODAY WILL GOD TAKE YOU WITH HIM TO SPEND ETERNITY WITH HIM OR WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY IN HELL???



By: cynthia mendoza - July 29, 2008 - Public
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To Dry My Tears a poem very special to me
  The day you were destined to come into this world you decided you couldn't waitYou were born early but not the way I wanted, you were still bornThis week if you had of lived, you would have turned twenty, but it wasn't to be this way ordained by fateStill until this very day, your fate I mourn.Always a whole in my heart, an ache in my arms, for babes that were lostLost because of hypertension, definitely not a friend but a much dreaded foeMy heart, my very being ended up paying a tremendous costFive more children suffered the same fate as you, I try to dry my tears, but they still continue to flow.Your brothers and sisters were lost to miscarriage, unlike them, I got to hold youJust like any mother, I inspected everything including your fingers and toesYou unlike the others, you were a solid reality real, my baby, I ended up playing a overwhelming duesLosing all of you, I will never except the fact that's the way things go.But you, I held you, when I said hello I also had to say good byeTwenty years have passed since then but there remains a whole in my heartIn reality the holes in my heart number five plus one, I still find no answers to the question of whyWith each of you when you went so my heart divided into six painful parts.The disease almost took my life just as it took yoursI would have gladly die, if it meant that any of you could livedI feel so guilty because you never had a chance, if only for my disease there could have been a cureIf there had been maybe some of you would have lived.But you, my Heather, I held you, inspected you, you were a reality, I held you after you diedThe others I also loved, but my arms still ache for you, even after twenty yearsIt seems just like yesterday when I kissed you good bye, but I did so with so much prideYou were a creation of love , very much a part of me, even after all this time I still can't dry my tears.



By: Lanaia Lee - March 28, 2008 - Public
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he" the king of kings
he is my king mygod father the lord of lords and the everlasting god


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By: clara parks - November 29, 2008 - Public
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who is jesus



By: victor paul - November 05, 2008 - Public
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Jesus is the Bringer of Kingdom of God



By: Takao Ogawa - October 13, 2008 - Public
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Jesus
Jesus was obiedient, he had a plan one ordered by his Father.His life was decent and in order,   He stayed on course and he was loving on his journey. Jesus was humble,yet all knowing. I find that amazing that one with so much power could care so much about the trials people were going through.  He is the same God today.  



By: pam goodrich - October 06, 2008 - Public
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Native American People and Jesus

Oh! Creator who made heaven and Earth.

We your humble servants have always carried you in our hearts.

We always knew you had a son.

But we didn't call him Jesus Christ,

We call him Tuhubchecheen

( Child of the water )

For he was born of the water of his mother's womb.

He baptised with with the sacred water, that gives life to the soul.

He was a simple carpenter and drank the sacred liquid when his work was done.

He brought fish from the waters were none. 

And like a drop of water on an arid land

Brings life, happiness and peace upon this Mother Earth.

The people denied you water as you suffered your final resign

Your father in heaven bathed you in water when your holy mission on earth was done. 

I as an Indian have sought your wisdom and you have spoken to me.

I asked and you answered.

I wished and you have given.

I have one more wish before I cross the river of no return.

I have a terminal cancer, and I say bring that love peace and warmth to this world again. Nilchinaa (Whispering Wind just passing by) 

For peace to come we must not think of I and me we must think of us and we. Jesus has spoken, Aho (Amen)



By: Gilberto Telles - October 04, 2008 - Public
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By: Gilberto Telles - October 04, 2008 - Public
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In the bible does Jesus ever actually state that he is God?



By: Laurie Waters - August 27, 2008 - Public
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