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Jesus The Christ

Birth - Miracles - Crucifixion - Resurrection- Divinity - Prophecies - Pagan Influence - Miscellaneous

 

 

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Crucifixion    
 

 In one of the early works of the Christian Church entitled, Against Heresies, written by St. Irenaeus ( lived between 125 AD and 202 AD), it says at Book II of that work. The specific chapter of interest in that book is Chapter 22, #5. The title of the chapter is:

“CHAP. XXII—THE THIRTY AEONS ARE NOT TYPIFIED BY THE FACT THAT CHRIST WAS BAPTIZED IN HIS THIRTIETH YEAR: HE DID NOT SUFFER IN THE TWELFTH MONTH AFTER HIS BAPTISM, BUT WAS MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED.”

 Then he Says: 

 

“5. They, however, that they may establish their false opinion regarding that which is written, ‘to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,’ maintain that He preached for one year only, and then suffered in the twelfth month. [In speaking thus], they are forgetful to their own disadvantage, destroying His whole work, and robbing Him of that age which is both more necessary and more honourable than any other; that more advanced age, I mean, during which also as a teacher He excelled all others. For how could He have had disciples, if He did not teach? And how could He have taught, unless He had reached the age of a Master? For when He came to be baptized, He had not yet completed His thirtieth year, but was beginning to be about thirty years of age (for thus Luke, who has mentioned His years, has expressed it: ‘Now Jesus was, as it were, beginning to be thirty years old,’(13) when He came to receive baptism); and, [according to these men] He preached only one year reckoning from His baptism. On completing His thirtieth year He suffered, being in fact still a young man, and who had by no means attained to advanced age. Now, that the first stage of early life embraces thirty years (1) and that this extends onwards to the fortieth year, every one will admit; but from the fortieth and fiftieth year a man begins to decline towards old age, which our Lord possessed while He still fulfilled the office of a Teacher, even as the Gospel and all the elders testify; those who were conversant in Asia with John, the disciple of the Lord, [affirming] that John conveyed to them that information. (2) And he [Jesus or John?] remained among them up to the times of Trajan. (3) Some of them, moreover, saw not only John, but the other apostles also, and heard the very same account from them, and bear testimony as to the [validity of] the statement. Whom then should we rather believe? Whether such men as these, or Ptolemaeus, who never saw the apostles, and who never even in his dreams attained to the slightest trace of an apostle?”

 

"Some of the other newly discovered gnostic books reflect the  well-known docetic tradition that Jesus did not really die on the cross, but another died in his place. Although this belief obviously derives its strength from the idea that Jesus was not of mortal flesh, so could not suffer, it could hardly have flourished in gnostic circles if there had been solid and certain evidence that he had really died."  Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Barbara Thiering, pp.117-118
 
 
 
Resurrection

 

 
 
 
Divinity    
 
“I and the Father are One” John 10:30   by Samid Al-Katib   New
 
 
 
Prophecies  
 
 

 

 
 
 
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