Monday, November 15, 2010

The Life of Christ

I think the most important aspect of Jesus' life was that most of the things he did was in his last three years of his life, and throughout his first thirty years he didn't do anything too significant. When Jesus is mentioned, he is mentioned at his birth and at and right before his death. Not many things about him are mentioned in his middle years. Jesus is very interesting because he performed many miracles but the miracles he performed mostly were to other help individuals, not himself because he is the human form of God. Also, he didn't want to be regarded as the Messiah but insisted that he was an ordinary man and wasnted to carry the word of God and express it to the world, since that was his job.
One of the scenes in the middle two pages is his power over the elements. Jesus had power over the elements because of his power from God and ability to perform miracles. Also, Jesus was an amazing and mystifying man during his lifetime and it would be pretty lame if the weather got in the way of his job, healing people, forgiving sins, spreading the word of God, etc. One of the other images is Jesus healing the sick. In this case, he healed a man and gave him the ability to walk again. By doing this, Jesus showed the mercy of God and how God is able to help people out if they show faith in him. This is one of the aspects of Jesus' job on earth.
Caring for the outcasts- In Jesus' time on earth, he was very compassionate by healing the outcasts and especially those with leprosy. His healings showed the compassion of God and how God cares for everyone. Many people were considered outcasts, and once they were healed of "cleaned" then had to have confirmation from the temple that they were cleaned. After a while, everyone heard about Jesus and went to him for cures.

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