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the person of Jesus - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Herod built the temple so there's an alliance between him and the Jewish High Priest (saducees)
    - - criticised role of the money changers in the temple
  - - - 'if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one'
      - manner of execution - serious crime
      - knocked over tables in temple
    - - 'pray for those who persecute you'
      - 'turn your left cheek'
      - 'those who live by the sword, die by the sword'
      - 'let him without sin cast the first stone'
  - - - notion of having Samaritan as the protagonist + labelling him as good challenged religious + political views at the time
      - inclusion of societal outcasts
- - - - C.S Lewis (counter) - if he was just a teacher why was he arrested + executed? - either a lunatic or God + it's illogical to call him a lunatic
        
        Dawkins - claimed evidence that Jesus was 'divine' is minimal, the Gospels are biased writers
  - - - 'unless your righteousness surpasses that of the pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven'
      - 'you shall not murder' -> 'anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subjective to judgement'
      - 'you shall not commit adultery' ->
        
        'anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has committed adultery in his heart'
        
        'if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away'
      - 'an eye for an eye' -> 'if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also'
      - 'love your neighbour + hate your enemy' -> 'love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you'
  - - - no one is beyond redemption
      - nothing puts you beyond God's forgiveness - agape
  - - - importance of spirituality over materialism
- - - - council at Nicaea - decided that Jesus and God were of the same 'substance'
      - 'of one essence with the Father'
  - - - Hume - we have no present day, direct experience of miracles, it's not possible, the Gospel must be rejected or taken on trust
        
        the laws of nature outweigh any evidence for a testimony for a breach of these laws
      - N.T Wright's interpretation - Jesus cures those from socially excluded groups + reunites them back into a relationship with God - focus on the intentions of the Gospel writers
      - O'Collins - the resurrection discloses God in a new way (unconditional love) + vindicated certainty in the future kingdom of God
      - St Paul - if Jesus was not resurrected, all preaching would be in vain as sins would not be cleansed + in death would all perish - its the full + final revelation of Jesus
      - E.P Saunders - historical analysis doesn't prove that Jesus was unique
      - Rudolf Bultmann - 'we can know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus'
        
        process of de-mythologisation + development of kerygma
    - - 'she came up behind him and touched his cloak... immediately her bleeding stopped'
      - 'Daughter your faith has healed you'
      - overturning of social norms
      - inclusive attitude towards women
    - - pharisees - 'this man is not from God, for he doesn't keep the sabbath', 'how can a sinner perform such signs?'
      - God working through Jesus