Catholic who is jesus

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Emmaus will help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to do this well. Catholic Faith is based on a relationship with Jesus Christ. We believe that Jesus of Nazareth is God revealing Himself to us in the most humble and understandable way possible. Jesus claimed and revealed Himself to be God.

At this, the crowd prepared to stone Him. You, a man, are making yourself God. Salvation comes through the forgiveness of sins, which can only be accomplished by God. The eternal Father sends His Son incarnate in human flesh to save His people from their sins. The Messiah would end history as it was known and start a new reign of God on earth. How the Messiah would actually come, how he would bring about the long awaited kingdom of God and what it would actually look like in the world was unknown, although there were plenty of noisy people with fanciful ideas on the subject.

The followers of Jesus believed he was the Messiah, and Jesus led them in that belief. It was to prove a challenging belief and a decisive one. Jesus' ministry and message. In those days, the Jews were the only anti-mythological people in the world. They despised myth. The reports of Jesus that come down to us are historical in flavour, rather than mythological. They say he healed thousands of people, sometimes from profound disabilities; people were healed simply by entering his presence, or merely by touching his clothes.

He walked across the water of a huge lake in Galilee, he brought dead people back to life, even from a distance, and with just a word. He was also able to control the weather and other elements turning water into wine and feeding people with five loaves and a few little fish. He spread love and peace to everyone he met. His teachings were simple, wise and quintessentially Jewish. But this God-man was a living blasphemy to his Jewish religious opponents who regarded him as a threat to their livelihoods and social importance.

It was one of Jesus' own followers, Judas, who betrayed him by organising his arrest. Jesus died in agony, nailed to a wooden cross, the sagging weight of his body not enabling him to breath properly as his strength gave out. When he died there was an earthquake and the sky darkened. In an age of accurate astrological prediction this was completely unexpected. Jesus was embalmed and entombed. On the third day after his death this man who had spoken and acted as if he were God appeared alive and well among his followers and remained with them for several weeks.

Today, Catholics believe that the church encompasses the whole human race and continue to prioritize the universal nature of our faith. Was Jesus Catholic? On one hand, he was ethnically and religiously Jewish, not Catholic as we understand the term 20 centuries after his death.

His followers have grown from a handful of men and women following a Jewish preacher in Galilee to a global church that embraces men and women, young and old, Gentile and Jew, rich and poor. This article also appears in the August issue of U.