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Religion Notes - Chapter 8
Chapter 8 - An Introduction to Jesus
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In the Gospels we meet the living Jesus - fully human and fully divine.
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Fully Human:
a. Son of Mary
b. Jewish and born in Palestine
c. foster father is Joseph
d. grew from childhood to adulthood - matured physically in age, wisdom and grace.
e. He worked with his hands.
f. Jesus experienced joys, suffering, misunderstanding, and rejection. (Emotions)
-Truly has been made one of us - like us in all things except sin.
2. Fully Divine:
a. Conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit.
b. Jesus is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, was always God.
c. In the words and actions of his life he revealed God the Father and God’s love for us.
d. Jesus is God present in our midst.
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B. Jesus is the promised Messiah:
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God had promised to remain with his people forever and to send them the Messiah to lead and save them. Jesus fulfills this promise.
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Infancy Narratives -The accounts of Jesus’ birth/childhood - found in first 2 chapters of Matthew and Luke, and the proclamation that He is the promised Savior, will carry out God’s plan of salvation.
Infancy narratives include:
-genealogy or family history, stories of Jesus (Emmanuel), Son of God who has descended from the family line of David, who was of the line of Abraham.
-proclaim Jesus is the promised Savior.
-Jesus will carry out God’s plan of salvation.
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C. Jesus Fulfills the Hopes of Israel:
a.Jesus and his family were devout Jews- followed laws of Moses
b. after birth of Jesus, Mary and Joseph traveled to Jerusalem to fulfill law of Moses (first born son was to be consecrated to the Lord - consecrate make sacred for God).
c. in Jerusalem, in a Temple (a sacred place where Jewish people gathered to worship God), a man named Simeon, full of faith, took infant in his arms and praised God. An elderly woman, Anna gave thanks to God and spoke about the child-promised Messiah.
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Story of Jesus’ youth - found in last story of Luke. Jesus stays behind at the Temple while his family journeys home. They don’t realize they left him behind-this reflects His humanity and divinity.
John’s Gospel begins with a prologue-”In the beginning”-uses these words to signal great new creation begins in Jesus.
-Also emphasizes Jesus Christ, who was with God and is God, took on human nature and lived among us as a human being. Jesus is true God and true man.
Gospels help us understand that in Jesus, “God is with us”.
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