The Historical Jesus

[catholic1seeks]

There’s going to be a show (broadcasted locally) on tonight about the “historical” Jesus.

Though I thought anything from history about Jesus supports his existence, others use the facts to create ideas about him that are not traditional:

HOUR ONE examines how Judaism and the Roman empire shaped Jesus’ life. Jesus was an ordinary Jewish resident of his time, **but new archaeological findings show that Jesus was probably not the humble village peasant often portrayed **(audio excerpt). Nazareth, where he grew up, was about four miles from the cosmopolitan urban center of Sepphoris, one of the Roman provincial cities.​

…

*This FRONTLINE series is an intellectual and visual guide to the new and *controversial historical evidence which challenges familiar assumptions about the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity.​

pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/

What should one be cautious of? It seems as if the only point of these shows is to tear down the faith of people.

Also:

The clash of customs and cultures among early Christians yielded a Jesus of many different interpretations and multiple messages​

What? But I thought the one, true Catholic Church kept things orthodox.

Please take a look at the provided link.

Does anyone know of good resources about the traditional AND historical Jesus vs. THEIR “historical” Jesus?

 

[Catholic_Dude]

It’s just those filthy, rotten “information” channels again. They love to do this stuff right around the major holidays (Easter and Christmas). It is a shameless below the belt attack on Christianity.

 

[The_Catholic]

There’s going to be a show (broadcasted locally) on tonight about the “historical” Jesus.

Though I thought anything from history about Jesus supports his existence, others use the facts to create ideas about him that are not traditional:

HOUR ONE examines how Judaism and the Roman empire shaped Jesus’ life. Jesus was an ordinary Jewish resident of his time, **but new archaeological findings show that Jesus was probably not the humble village peasant often portrayed **(audio excerpt). Nazareth, where he grew up, was about four miles from the cosmopolitan urban center of Sepphoris, one of the Roman provincial cities.​

…

*This FRONTLINE series is an intellectual and visual guide to the new and *controversial historical evidence which challenges familiar assumptions about the life of Jesus **and the epic rise of Christianity.​

pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/

What should one be cautious of? It seems as if the only point of these shows is to tear down the faith of people.

Also:

The clash of customs and cultures among early Christians yielded a Jesus of many different interpretations and multiple messages​

What? But I thought the one, true Catholic Church kept things orthodox.

Please take a look at the provided link.

Does anyone know of good resources about the traditional AND historical Jesus vs. THEIR “historical” Jesus?

Go out and buy “The Jesus Legend, A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptc Jesus Tradition” by Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory A. Boyd. That is THE BEST defense of the historical Jesus books I’ve EVER READ!! Also try Lee Strobel’s “Case For The Real Jesus.” Also very good.

One last one is J.P.Holding’s “Shattering the Christ Myth.”

Then simply read the early church fathers, study those early times, and really there is no problem. Debate yes, but not such a matter where it would blow away our faith.

This tv junk is simple flat out garbage.

Lee

 

[Verbum]

Hi Catholic,

We are not interested in the historical Jesus, except that he was born, died and resurrected - most of all resurrected, because this proves his divine mission.

The gospels are not biographies; they are teaching tools for the first Christians… and for us. The stories are there to make a point, and different evangelists use them to make different points. So any attempt at finding the “historical Jesus” is balderdash. The “historical Jesus” is just another guy living in the first century. I don’t mean by this that the gospels stories did not happen; I mean that they are not there for a biographical purpose.

Personally, I just skip over this junk.

Verbum

 

[grannymh]

Very good book on Jesus…

“Jesus of Nazareth” by Pope Benedict XVI