Quotes About Jesus

The gospel of the atonement for sins as mentioned in the Bible and as witnessed by the Apostles, tells us that Jesus had taken away all the sins of the world.

We need to understand how the Apostle Peter believed and explained the baptism of Jesus? In 1 Peter 3:21 he said, "There is also an antitype which now saves us-baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The Apostle Peter is telling us the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist is an antitype of the salvation of how He atoned for our sins.

Because of this, people have a vague belief that 'Jesus somehow has taken- on the sins of the world,' but this type of thinking stems from ignorance of the baptism of Jesus and its meaning. We

Likewise, Jesus Christ the Son of God came to this earth and opened the age of the New Testament, by shouldering the sins of the world without a single trace of sin left behind, in order to atone for all the sins of all of humankind.

and contrast him with the highest God who had nothing to do with the creation. As the demiurge created the world, he has a right to it, but he was overcome through the death of Jesus. The demiurge thought to conquer Jesus when he let him die on the cross, but his triumph was preposterous, for through the passion and death of the innocent Jesus the victory of God was won and the salvation of mankind became established.

The goal when emulating the real Jesus is to become both sweet and salty, both gracious and firm.

Remember: (1) you are there to work and produce, not to find your best friend or to endear yourself to the whole workplace; and (2) the 360-degree Jesus didn't share too much personal information and rarely answered a question directly.

Jesus had a forceful and firm side. If he knew he was doing God's will, he didn't care if his words or actions made people mad.

Jesus wasn't always nice. I'm nice. I'm not like Jesus.

1) Having an incomplete image of Jesus that focuses on his sweet side and ignores his forceful side; (2) Giving in to the immense pressure society puts on women to hide their true selves behind a façade of niceness; (3) Encountering harmful childhood experiences, such as lacking inspiring words or role models

Jesus] protected what was valuable and didn't allow himself to be disrespected and abused until doing so had a divine purpose at his crucifixion.

To get there, we have to kill mellow-yellow, docile, unemotional, Lotus-sitting Jesus, drinking kombucha and finding us little humans mildly amusing while trying to clear his head of conflict and division, "contemplating all," as Tennyson put it.

This was their religion, their faith. Che was their Jesus Christ: "Like a Christian seeking to emulate the life of Christ," Rudd remembered, "I passionately wanted to be a revolutionary like Che, no matter what the cost."36

She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized.

I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.

There is a time in each person's life when they become accountable for making the decision to accept Jesus' payment for their wrongdoing. If the decision is to accept the restored fellowship with God through receiving Jesus' blood sacrifice for their sins, then God's Holy Spirit takes up residency in the person. God's spirit actually comes and lives in those who invite him to do so. - Excerpt, Unshackled: Experiencing True Freedom for Men and Women

On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus.

Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

Thank you, he says. Thank who? I don't know. You? No, not me. Jesus . Thank you, Jesus? Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun.