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Topic: Alleged relics of Jesus Christ


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  Jesus Biography
In Arabic, Jesus is known as the prophet Isa al Masih, from the aforementioned Aramaic for Jesus the Messiah.
Jesus did preach the imminent end of the current era of history, in some sense a literal end of the world as people of his time knew it; in this sense he was an apocalyptic preacher bringing a message about the imminent end of the world the Jews knew.
Jesus Christ is deemed a false prophet in most sects of Judaism, and religious Jews are still awaiting the arrival of the Messiah.
www.myclassiclyrics.com /artist_biographies/Jesus_Biography.htm   (2531 words)

  
  Relics of Jesus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are many relics of Jesus that people believe or believed to be authentic relics of the Gospel accounts.
The Shroud of Turin is perhaps the most well-known relic; its authenticity was questioned due to radiocarbon dating, performed in 1988, the accuracy of which has itself been subsequently questioned.
The Spear of Destiny or Holy Lance, the spear of Longinus used to pierce Jesus' side when he was on the cross, to ensure that he had died.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alleged_relics_of_Jesus_Christ   (630 words)

  
 vitalcoaching.com - Jesus Christ - Spiritual development
To Muslims, Jesus is known as the prophet Isa al Masih (عيسى المسيح), from the aforementioned Aramaic for Jesus the Messiah.
Jesus was possibly born in Bethlehem, although he may have been assigned this birthplace by early Christians based on that city's status as the presumed birthplace of King David, from whom the Messiah was to descend.
Jesus was seen as the savior and bringer of gnosis by various Gnostic sects, such as the extinct Manicheanism.
vitalcoaching.com /spirit/masters/jesuschrist.htm   (3173 words)

  
 biology - Relic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
The preservation of relics is a primitive instinct, and it is associated with shamanism as well as many other developed religious systems besides that of Christianity.
Relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage of time, especially an object or custom whose original culture has disappeared, but also an object cherished for historical or memorial value (such as a keepsake or heirloom).
The veneration of the relics of saints - from the Summa Theologica
www.biologydaily.com /biology/Relic   (1149 words)

  
 Jesus wept - TheBestLinks.com - Bible, Christian, Docetism, English language, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
"Jesus Wept" is the shortest verse in the Christian Bible (King James Version of the Bible) and is found in the Gospel of John, Chapter 11:35.
Jesus's tears have figured among the Alleged relics of Jesus Christ.
The resurrection of Lazarus came to the attention of the Jewish priests, and was one of the things that led to Jesus' eventual arrest and crucifixion.
www.thebestlinks.com /Jesus_wept.html   (318 words)

  
 Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick | Jesus Christ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Jesus used a variety of methods in his teaching, such as paradox, metaphor and parable, leaving it unclear how literally he wished to be taken and precisely what he meant.
Jesus came with his followers to Jerusalem during the Passover festival, created a disturbance at the Temple by overturning the tables of the moneychangers there, and was subsequently arrested on the orders of the Sanhedrin and the High Priest, Joseph Caiphas.
The most famous alleged relics of Jesus is the Shroud of Turin, which is claimed to be the burial shroud used to wrap the body of Jesus, and the Holy Grail which is said to have been used to collect Jesus' blood during his crucifixion and possibly used at The Last Supper.
www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Jesus_Christ   (2496 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Jesus
In the case of Jesus the plaque reads "Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm" (INRI)—"Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews", indicating that Jesus was crucified for the crime of rebelling against the authority of Rome by being declared the "King of the Jews".
The most famous alleged relic of Jesus is the Shroud of Turin, which is claimed to be the burial shroud used to wrap the body of Jesus.
Jesus was seen as the savior and bringer of gnosis by various Gnostic sects, such as the extinct Manichaeism.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/j/e/Jesus.html   (4598 words)

  
 Jesus Christ
Jesus was enigmatic at best about his claim to actually be the presumptive monarch, but it is likely that he believed that as soon as God restored the monarchy, he would be anointed as king.
Jesus is considered as a manifestation of God by the Bahá'ís.
Jesus Christ (Christology) on the Deity of Jesus, Jesus' Offices of Prophet, Priest and King and The Historic Jesus.
www.findthelinks.com /Religion/Jesus_Christ_perspectives.htm   (2695 words)

  
 Jesus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Jesus (Isa in the Qur'an) was one of God's many human prophets who were chosen to teach Islam to mankind at different stages; the final and completed stage being taught by God's final prophet, Muhammad.
Jesus also preached the imminent end of the current era (αίών) of history, in some sense a literal end of the world as people of his time knew it; in this sense he was an apocalyptic preacher bringing a message about the imminent end of the world the Jews knew.
Jesus' original name is not reported by contemporary or near-contemporary sources, but modern scholars have suggested that Jesus' name was the Aramaic ישׁוע / Yēšûaʿ (as in the Syriac New Testament) a shortened form of Yehoshua used in Ezra, Nehemiah and Chronicles), which was a fairly common name at the time.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/Jesus.htm   (6146 words)

  
 The historical Jesus and Mythical Christ by Gerald Massey
Jesus of Nazareth (and of the Canonical Gospels) was unknown to Justus, to the Jew of Celsus, and to Josephus, the supposed reference to him by the latter being an undoubted forgery.
Jesus was not only born of the mythical motherhood; his descent on the maternal side is traced in accordance with this origin of the mythical Christ.
Jesus is he that should come; and Iu, the root of the name in Egyptian, means "to come." Iu-em-hept, as the Su, the Son of Atum, or of Ptah, was the "Ever-Coming One," who is always pourtrayed as the marching youngster, in the act and attitude of coming.
www.theosophical.ca /MythicalChrist.htm   (15426 words)

  
 Middle East Online
According to Christian tradition, Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ by helping the Romans to find him before he was crucified.
The four recognised gospels of the New Testament describe the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and are said to record his teachings from the eyes of four of his disciples, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The Maecenas Foundation, which aims to protect archaeological relics found in poor countries, hopes to organise exhibitions around the manuscript and to produce a documentary on the process of unravelling the text.
www.middle-east-online.com /english/culture/?id=13097   (597 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Relics
The word relics comes from the Latin reliquiae (the counterpart of the Greek leipsana) which already before the propagation of Christianity was used in its modern sense, viz., of some object, notably part of the body or clothes, remaining as a memorial of a departed saint.
Neither has the Church ever pronounced that any particular relic, not even that commonly venerated as the wood of the Cross, as authentic; but she approves of honour being paid to those relics which with reasonable probability are believed to be genuine and which are invested with due ecclesiastical sanctions.
In the case of the Nails with which Jesus Christ was crucified, we can point to definite instances in which that which was at first venerated as having touched the original came later to be honoured as the original itself.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12734a.htm   (3710 words)

  
 Jesus monkey-Christ's and the Christians'  perfidious  "Love" of the "Truths": to avoid ...
Jesus correctly realized that he only could set his infamous shmucks to warfare against their “beloved” fellow human beings by removing the troublesome conscience of each of his followers.
Jesus correctly realizes that one can turn people into effective fighting robots or beasts for crimes and barbarities on the condition that they are ordered to hand over their conscience and reason to their leader, who uses the stage name “god’s son” or even “god” in this atrocious and heinous sect.
Jesus has contrived and concocted a sham-moral he doctored, tailored and fudged correspondingly to the purpose of putting upside down (lies as “truths”, hatred as “love”, felons as “martyrs” etc.), the principle of all religious lies and mendacity.
www.bare-jesus.net /e202.htm   (4576 words)

  
 Relic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Some relics believed to be original relics of Buddha still survive including the much revered Sacred Relic of the tooth of the Buddha in Sri Lanka.
More relics of bone which were discovered during archaeological excavations of a stupa built in Peshawar, Pakistan by the Kushan Emperor Kanishka in the second century A.D. In 1909, three pieces of bone (approx 1½ in.
The relics are meanwhile being kept safely in a nearby monastery until funds can be found to build a new stupa to house the relics next to Mandalay Hill.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Relic.htm   (1675 words)

  
 Where Jesus Never Walked - Winter 1996-1997
The room in which Jesus lived after his return from Egypt can also be visited, as well as the places where the Blessed Virgin was born -- there are, of course, several of them, not counting her birthplace file miles away in Sepphoris or her birthplace in Jerusalem.
Since the evangelists portray Jesus as a second Moses and structure much of their stories as a symbolic replay of the career of Moses, the probability that the title Magdalene was intended to refer to the Exodus story is rather good, but not at all certain.
While one might be able to ignore as insignificant for historical Jesus studies the demonstration that a single gospel locality is fictive, the demonstration that as many as a dozen localities are mythical cannot be ignored and has enormously important implications.
www.americanatheist.org /win96-7/T2/ozjesus.html   (7682 words)

  
 The Urantia Book
We also find that Jesus Christ is merely the seventh incarnation ("bestowal") of Michael of Nebadon (our "local universe"), the 611,121st Creator Son sent out by the Paradise Trinity.
And the atonement of Jesus is emphatically denied:
The real gospel of Jesus, according to THE URANTIA BOOK, is simply "the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of men" (2042, 2059), i.e., that "all men are the sons of God" already (1585).
www.logosresourcepages.org /FalseTeachings/urantia1.htm   (1806 words)

  
 relics - OneLook Dictionary Search
Relics : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
RELICS : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
Phrases that include relics: alleged relics of jesus christ, relics of aul decency, saxon relics
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 Did Jesus exist?
Horus as the Lion (Jesus as the Lion)
It was not until the third century that Jesus' cross of execution became a common symbol of the Christian faith.
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.
www.nobeliefs.com /exist.htm   (11981 words)

  
 copycat
One encounters overblown claims about alleged likenesses between baptism and the Lord's Supper and similar "sacraments" in certain mystery cults...The mere fact that Christianity has a sacred meal and a washing of the body is supposed to prove that it borrowed these ceremonies from similar meals and washings in the pagan cults.
Bousset argued that the Jesus of the primitive Palestinian church was the eschatological Son of Man, largely derived from Daniel 7:13—14.
According to this definition, the story of the birth of Jesus is a virgin birth story whereas the birth of the Buddha and of Orphic Dionysos are not.
www.christian-thinktank.com /copycat.html   (15792 words)

  
 untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
The alleged Veronica image of Jesus' face, which began to appear perhaps in the 8th century, shows the typical longhaired Catholic Jesus.
In the movie Jesus is beaten two separate times with 39 lashes each, first on the back, and then on the front, and the soldiers continue to beat him as they walk to the cross.
I believe this shows a weakness in Christ during His suffering that is not only contrary to what the Scriptures teach but is heretical in regard to His person.
www.graceimpact.org /MelsMovie.htm   (3558 words)

  
 Benny Hinn’s Move Into Necromancy
Hinn recently claimed that he was shown the future of his ministry from Kuhlman and Jesus in what he described as a “vision of the night.” This revelation undoubtedly will electrify the bulk of his following.
His account of this alleged vision was delivered to those attending a recent “Partner Conference” in Atlanta and to those viewing the June 11, 1997 installment of his daily This Is Your Day program.
In Jesus’ account of the afterlife in Luke 16 a man seeks to go back from the dead to warn others of torment.
www.pfo.org /bhnecro.htm   (4895 words)

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