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- - - - Jesus's life and teachings were compiled into the first four books of the New Testament called gospels. The four books are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
      - Each gospel differs in their account of the life of Jesus' life and ministry
      - The gospels provide their own distinct view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
        
        Matthew, Mark, and Luke are the “synoptic gospel” because they present a “common view” of Jesus through sayings, parable, and events.
        
        John’s gospel focuses more on the divinity of Christ in the context of a cosmic world view
      - Relationship to the Spirit world
        
        Jesus was empowered by the Holy Spirit, which descended upon him after his Baptism
        
        Jesus used the Spirit to heal individuals and to heal humanity as well, beginning with the Jewish people
        
        Gospels often attribute the power of the Spirit to Jesus
        
        Healing the sick
        
        Walking on water
        
        Reviving the dead
        
        Cast out demons
    - - Born in Bethlehem in Judea in the lineage of King David
      - Jesus' mother, Mary, conceived Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit, while she was a young unmarried virgin. Mary's fiance, Joseph, was a carpenter from Nazareth
      - On the night of Jesus' birth, there was no room at any inns, so Mary gave birth to Jesus in a stable.
      - Wise men came to Jesus on the night of his birth, bringing gifts to honor the child
      - According to Luke, at age 12, Jesus' parents found him teaching the rabbis in the temple in Jerusalem.
    - - Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist when he was about thirty years old
        
        John the Baptist
        
        Had a message of radical repentance and transformation
        
        looked to the new age and announced that the Kingdom of God was near and decided to baptize thousands of people in the River Jordan, so they may be initiated into this new kingdom
        
        It was a time of political turmoil and religious expectation. Many Jewish movements were waiting on the coming of a promised Messiah and a Kingdom of God
        
        In Mark, it is said that during Jesus' baptism, the skies were torn open and the Spirit, like a dove from heaven, descended upon Jesus and said, "You are my beloved son; with you I am well pleased."
    - - Jesus preached, taught, and healed in his public ministry
      - Teachings
        
        Jesus taught repentance and turning to God in addition with messages of God’s generosity, forgiveness, love, and justice
        
        Jesus taught people through parables that made their points in surprising ways
        
        Jesus taught that the “great commandment” to love one’s neighbor as oneself crosses all ethnic and religious barriers
        
        Jesus mingled with all the deplorables of society and taught that the “great commandment” is to love one’s neighbor not judge them and that God was the only one who could judge people
        
        The Kingdom of God
        
        The kingdom would not be an earthly political kingdom
        
        Instead it was to be a new reign of justice for the poor and liberation for the oppressed
        
        The poor, the rejected, the outcasts were to be included first in this new Kingdom of God
        
        Disciples and those who heard him began to believe that he was the long-awaited Messiah, who would make the Kingdom of God a reality
        
        Reformer
        
        He wanted change, he stayed in the world, and he extolled peacemakers and urged those to love their enemies.
        
        Jesus was a reformer because although he subscribed to much of the Pharisees ideals relating to Yaweh, he could not agree with the parts of the holiness code that drew lines between people
        
        Jesus saw social barriers as an affront to Yaweh’s compassion
        This meant that Jesus hung out with everyone, especially those considered unclean. This made him a social prophet because he challenged the boundaries of the existing order and advocated an alternative vision of the human community
      - His posse was made up of a bunch of fishermen and women
        
        People responded to Jesus, so Jesus responded to them, no matter what kind of person they were. He didn’t subscribe to social barriers, so he was relatable to all people
        
        Jesus was so influential because of all of these qualities. He seemed to be a man without an ego, who left his life completely under the will of God
        To them, Jesus was God in human form
      - Jesus’ followers saw him as a man of strength and integrity, who bor the strangeness of perfection.
        Jesus was essentially a really really good guy, who liked people and people liked him in return
    - - The Jews in Jesus’ time were desperate
      - Jews lived a life of servitude in Rome for the better part of a century
      - Taxed beyond endurance
  - - - Roman rulers feared that he was provoking unrest among the people and planning a revolution
      - Jewish leaders feared him because he challenged the traditional authority and teachings of the religion
    - - The Jewish high priest denounced Jesus as a blasphemer who claimed to be the Messiah
      - Jesus was then charged with sedition and executed by the Roman practice of crucifixion, being nailed to a cross.
  - - - Faith in the resurrection of Jesus produced the Church and its Christology
- - - - Good News- new teacher, kingdom is near, end of suffering is near
  - - - Jesus was fully God and fully human
      - Jesus was God--his life provides the perfect model by which to live human life--set the standard
      - God was concerned about humanity; concerned enough to suffer on its behalf
    - - Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit
      - God is fully one and also three
        
        Like H2O- solid, gas, and liquid
    - - Reconciliation of humanity's sin
      - Original sin committed by Adam and Eve
      - Christ liberated humanity from sin by dying on the cross
    - - It’s the experience of living in the presence of Christ
      - Christian theology used to understand that mystery of Christ
      - A vision of reality that sets morality in motion
- - - - The congregation has more say in the selection of their clergy than in Catholicism