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Religion

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Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views, sacred texts, holy places, ethics and societal organisation that relate humanity to what an anthropologist^[who?] has called "an order of existence".^[1]
Different religions may or may not contain various elements, ranging from the "divine",^[2] "sacred things",^[3] "faith",^[4] a "supernatural being or supernatural beings"^[5] or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life".^[6] Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. Religions have sacred histories and narratives, which may be preserved in sacred scriptures, and symbols and holy places, that aim mostly to give a meaning to life. Religions may contain symbolic stories, which are sometimes said by followers to be true, that have the side purpose of explaining the origin of life, the Universe and other things. Traditionally, faith, in addition to reason, has been considered a source of religious beliefs.^[7] There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide.^[8] About 84% of the world's population is affiliated with one of the five largest religions, namely Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or forms of folk religion.^[9]
With the onset of the modernisation of and the scientific revolution in the western world, some aspects of religion have cumulatively been criticized. The religiously unaffiliated demographic include those who do not identify with any particular religion, atheists and agnostics. While the religiously unaffiliated have grown globally, many of the religiously unaffiliated still have various religious beliefs.^[10] About 16% of the world's population is religiously unaffiliated.^[9] The study of religion encompasses a wide variety of academic disciplines, including theology, comparative religion and social scientific studies. Theories of religion offer various explanations for the origins and workings of religion.

Jesus in Christianity

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For an overview of all perspectives, see Jesus.

Jesus (on the left) is being identified by John the Baptist as the "Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world", in John 1:29.^[1] 17th century depiction by Vannini.
Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah (Christ) and believe that through his death and resurrection, humans can be reconciled to God and thereby are offered salvation and the promise of eternal life.^[2] These teachings emphasize that as the willing Lamb of God, Jesus chose to suffer on the cross at Calvary as a sign of his full obedience to the will of the Eternal Father, as an "agent and servant of God".^[3][4] The choice Jesus made thus counter-positions him as a new man of morality and obedience, in contrast to Adam's disobedience.^[5]
Most Christians believe that Jesus was both human and divine—the Son of God. While there has been theological debate over the nature of Jesus, Trinitarian Christians believe that Jesus is the Logos, God incarnate, God the Son, and "true God and true man"—both fully divine and fully human. Jesus, having become fully human in all respects, suffered the pains and temptations of a mortal man, yet he did not sin. As fully God, he defeated death and rose to life again. According to the Bible, God raised him from the dead.^[6] He ascended to heaven to sit at the Right Hand of God,^[7] and he will return to earth again for the Last Judgment and the establishment of the Kingdom of God in the World to Come.^[8]


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• 1 Core teachings about Christ
• 2 Christ, Logos and Son of God
• 3 Incarnation, Nativity and Second Adam
• 4 Ministry
• 5 Teachings, parables and miracles
  • 5.1 Discourses
  • 5.2 Parables
  • 5.3 Miracles of Jesus

Judaism's view of Jesus

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Among followers of Judaism, Jesus is viewed as having been the most influential, and consequently the most damaging, of all false messiahs.^[1] However, since the traditional Jewish belief is that the messiah has not yet come and the Messianic Age is not yet present, the total rejection of Jesus as either messiah or deity has never been a central issue for Judaism.
Judaism has never accepted any of the claimed fulfillments of prophecy that Christianity attributes to Jesus. Judaism also forbids the worship of a person as a form of idolatry, since the central belief of Judaism is the absolute unity and singularity of God.^[2][3] Jewish eschatology holds that the coming of the Messiah will be associated with a specific series of events that have not yet occurred, including the return of Jews to their homeland and the rebuilding of The Temple, a Messianic Age of peace^[4] and understanding during which "the knowledge of God" fills the earth,^[5] and since Jews believe that none of these events occurred during the lifetime of Jesus (nor have they occurred afterwards), he is not a candidate for messiah.
Traditional views of Jesus have been mostly negative, although in the Middle Ages Judah Halevi and Maimonides viewed Jesus as an important preparatory figure for a future universal ethical monotheism of the Messianic Age. Some modern Jewish thinkers have sympathetically speculated that the historical Jesus may have been closer to Judaism than either the Gospels or traditional Jewish accounts would indicate, starting in the 18th century with the Orthodox Jacob Emden and the reformer Moses Mendelssohn. This view is still espoused by some.

Jesus in Islam

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In Islam, Isa refers to Jesus. For other uses, see Isa (disambiguation).

For other uses, see Isa (name).

Messenger of God ʿĪsā عيسى Jesus
The name Jesus son of Mary written in Islamic calligraphy followed by Peace be upon him
Native name	ישוע‎ Yēšūă‘
Born	c. 7-2 BC Bethlehem, Judea, Roman Empire
Disappeared	c. 30-33 AD Gethsemane, Jerusalem
Predecessor	Yahya (John the Baptist)
Successor	Muhammad
Parent(s)	Mary
Relatives	Yahya (John the Baptist)

In Islam, Isa ibn Maryam (Arabic: عيسى بن مريم‎, translit. ʿĪsā ibn Maryām, lit. 'Jesus, son of Mary'‎), or Jesus, is understood to be the penultimate prophet and messenger of Allah (God) and al-Masih, the Arabic term for Messiah,^[1][2] the "Christ",^[3] sent to guide the Children of Israel (banī isrā'īl in Arabic) with a new revelation: al-Injīl (Arabic for "the Gospel").^[4] Jesus is believed to be a prophet,^[3] who neither married nor had any children, and is reflected as a significant figure,^[5] being mentioned in the Quran in 93 ayaat (Arabic for verses) with various titles attached such as "Son of Mary",^[6] "Spirit of God",^[7] and the "Word of God"^[7] among other relational terms, directly and indirectly, over 180 times.^[8][9] In total, Jesus is mentioned 187 times in the Quran as such the most mentioned person with the name Isa^{[note 1]} mentioned 25 times,^[10] in titles^{[note 2]} mentioned 79 times,^[11][12][13] in 3rd person^{[note 3]} mentioned 48 times, in 1st person^[14] mentioned 35 times.^[15]
The Quran (central religious text of Islam) and most Hadith (testimonial reports) mention Jesus to have been born a "pure boy" (without sin) to Mary (Arabic: مريم‎, translit. Maryām‎) as the result of virginal conception,^[3][16][17] similar to the event of the Annunciation in Christianity. In Islamic theology, Jesus is believed to have performed many miracles, several being mentioned in the Quran such as speaking as an infant, healing various ailments like blindness, raising the dead to life, making birds out of clay and breathing life into them.^[18] Over the centuries Islamic writing has referenced other miracles like casting out demons, having borrowed from pre-Islamic sources, some heretical, and from canonical sources as legends were expanded.^[19] Like all prophets in Islamic thought, Jesus is also called a Muslim (i.e., one who submits to the will of God), as he preached that his followers should adopt the "straight path".
In Islam, Jesus is believed to have been the precursor to Muhammad, attributing the name Ahmad to someone who would follow Jesus. Islam traditionally teaches the rejection of divinity, that Jesus was not God incarnate, nor the Son of God and, according to some interpretations of the Quran, the Islamic view of Jesus' death and crucifixion is widely denied and not believed to have occurred.^[20] Despite the earliest Muslim traditions and exegesis quoting somewhat conflicting reports regarding death and length of death,^[21] the mainstream Muslim belief is that Jesus didn't suffer death but was instead raised alive to heaven.^[2][22]
Muslim tradition believes Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment to restore justice and to defeat al-Masih ad-Dajjal ("the false messiah", also known as the Antichrist).

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Jesus

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This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. For other uses, see Jesus (disambiguation).
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Jesus
Christ Pantocrator mosaic in Byzantine style, from the Cefalù Cathedral, Sicily, c. 1130
Born	c. 4 BC[a] Judea, Roman Empire[5]
Died	c. AD 30/33[b] (aged 33–36) Jerusalem, Judea, Roman Empire
Cause of death	Crucifixion[c]
Home town	Nazareth, Galilee[11]
Parent(s)	Mary Joseph[d]

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Jesus^[e] (/ˈdʒiːzəs/ JEE-zuss; c. 4 BC – c. AD 30/33), also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ,^[f] was a Jewish preacher and religious leader who became the central figure of Christianity.^[13] Christians believe him to be the Son of God and the awaited Messiah (Christ) prophesied in the Old Testament.^[14][15]
Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically,^[g] although the quest for the historical Jesus has produced little agreement on the historical reliability of the Gospels and on how closely the biblical Jesus reflects the historical Jesus.^[22][23][24] Jesus was a Galilean Jew^[13] who was baptized by John the Baptist and subsequently began his own ministry, preaching his message orally^[25] and often being referred to as "rabbi".^[26] He was arrested and tried by the Jewish authorities,^[27] and was crucified by the order of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect.^[28] Jesus debated fellow Jews on how to best follow God, performed healings, taught in parables and gathered followers.^[28][29] After his death, his followers believed he rose from the dead, and the community they formed eventually became the Christian Church.^[30]
His birth is celebrated annually on December 25 (or various dates in January for some eastern churches) as a holiday known as Christmas, his crucifixion is honored on Good Friday, and his resurrection is celebrated on Easter. The widely used calendar era "AD", from the Latin anno Domini ("in the year of our Lord"), and the alternative "CE", are based on the approximate birth date of Jesus.^[31][32]
Christian doctrines include the beliefs that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, was born of a virgin named Mary, performed miracles, founded the Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement, rose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven, whence he will return.^[33] Most Christians believe Jesus enables humans to be reconciled to God. The Nicene Creed asserts that Jesus will judge the living and the dead^[34] either before or after their bodily resurrection,^[35][36][37] an event tied to the Second Coming of Jesus in Christian eschatology.^[38] The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as the incarnation of God the Son, the second of three persons of a Divine Trinity. A minority of Christian denominations reject Trinitarianism, wholly or partly, as non-scriptural.
In Islam, Jesus (commonly transliterated as Isa) is considered one of God's important prophets and the Messiah.^[39][40][41] Muslims believe Jesus was a bringer of scripture and was born of a virgin but was not the Son of God. The Quran states that Jesus himself never claimed divinity.^[42] To most Muslims, Jesus was not crucified but was physically raised into Heaven by God.
Judaism rejects the belief that Jesus was the awaited Messiah, arguing that he did not fulfill Messianic prophecies and asserting that the resurrection is a Christian legend.^[43]


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• 1 Etymology
• 2 Life and teachings in the New Testament
  • 2.1 Canonical gospels
  • 2.2 Genealogy and nativity
  • 2.3 Early life, family, and profession
  • 2.4 Baptism and temptation
  • 2.5 Public ministry
  • 2.6 Passion Week
  • 2.7 Resurrection and Ascension
• 3 Historical views
  • 3.1 Judea and Galilee in the 1st century
  • 3.2 Sources
  • 3.3 Chronology
  • 3.4 Historicity of events
  • 3.5 Portraits of Jesus
  • 3.6 Language, ethnicity, and appearance
  • 3.7 Christ myth theory
• 4 Perspectives
  • 4.1 Christian
  • 4.2 Jewish
  • 4.3 Islamic

Jesus [Eesa] AS

Jesus the Prophet 

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Soon it will be Easter Sunday on April 16, 2017 the celebration of Jesus Resurrection. We all love him and all he did in his time. We receive the scripture from Peter who serve him as a follower. We receive other written scriptures from Paul and other followers that was uncovered by archeologists.



We all have different ways of worshiping God and the problem that I have seen is religion. How are we suppose to worship God is the dilemma and contradiction of the different scriptures. I find it understandable the Muslim way because when Jesus was on the cross his words were " Father into your hands I commit my spirit". How can we worship Jesus as the Lord when I know Lord clearly

means God.



It is so unbearable to think of a human being put on the cross for worshiping his Creator. It's even more unbearable for another man of God "John the baptist", who actually baptized Jesus and his head

was cut off. Mentioning other prophets such as Ahaziah, Elijah, Micah, etc. My point is they were all servants to God as we too should be better people serving God. As I have said several times, you have the opportunity to do whatever you want on this earth it is your choice. The sun and the moon rises on us all, however we must take care of each other or we are no use to our Creator.



Happy Easter

May our Creator forgive us of our sins and bless us our endeavors.

by LAMH