Week 7 Assignment: Christianity, History and Practice

your name here

HUM/130

2/12/02

Terry Barnes

Sources: www.biography.com/people/jesus-christ-9354382 www.theopedia.com/Church_history our textbook

Jesus Christ has many great stories behind him. These stories are called miracles, depending on who you ask. Yet, one thing cannot be denied, and that is that Jesus Christ did exist and his influence is still felt by the Catholic faith. Jesus Christ was born in approximately 6 AD in Bethlehem, from his parents Mary and Joseph. Yet, according to the faith, his actual father is God. Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, as Mary was a virgin. Joseph, his legal father, was a carpenter who made furniture with his hands. Jesus would also become a carpenter later on in his life. Some of these points are argued between religions, yet I am not going to touch on it in this paper. His childhood is shrouded in mystery, as there are little to no records of his life during his childhood and early teenage years. Many argued that he did not initially except his role or fate as God’s only son and lived a life like any other would at the time. You can even look in the Bible for such a hypothesis, as the stories of his life suddenly jump from age 16 to age 30. Where are the missing texts that chronicle his life during these missing fourteen years? This is what many claim that he rejected his “destiny” or found it all too big to cope with. Later, the bible has records of his many amazing feats right up until the day he died at the age of 30. He founded Christianity, helped record the New Testament in the bible, and journeyed across the land performing deeds of good will toward the poor and hungry. One of his most famous deeds was being able to feed a whole crowd of people off of just one loaf of bread and a couple pieces of fish.