In the book of John what evidence is there or what did Jesus do or say to originate the largest religion today
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The Gospel of John was written by a follower of that largest religion, so I don't think you're going to find the hard, unbiased evidence you're looking for there.\n\nIn fact, if you come right down to it, we cannot confirm or deny that Jesus said any of the things attributed to him.\n\nDoes that matter?  No.  What matters is that people BELIEVE he is the Son of God who died, rose, and ascended into heaven.  A philosophy professor of mine always argued that faith and reason do not stand in opposition to one another, nor must they agree.  Rather, they stand apart as coequals, as equally valid ways to finding truth.  He convinced me.
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Paul wrote the most of the letters  in the New Testiment.  I do not believe he had anything to do with any of the Gospels!
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he did not....\n\nhe came to earth just 2000 years ago.. and our planet earth was here some millions of years.. and even before 2000 years ago there were many other religions other than jesus..then how can u say jesus has created.
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my religion is Bible-based, so that is the text that i will be focusing on.\n\nover the years archaeologists have used the Bible to find people, places, kings, kingdoms, and even entire civilizations that were previously thought to not exist.  they were in the Bible, but no one found them until they used the Bible to find them. \n\nthe Bible puts on a timeline a cataclysmic flood about 4500 years ago where everything was destroyed from the face of the earth.  the oldest tree discoevered dates to about 4500 years ago.  coincidence?  read on...\n\nin the late 1990's, the earths population topped 6 billion.  in 1810, it was just over 1 billion.  following the curve that these numbers give us, the human population was at it's beginning about 4500 years ago (where the Bible has 8 living people)\n\nthe first greek translation of the new testament was written 250 years BC (before christ).  it has in it over 300 prophesies pertaining to the life of the messiah; all of which were fullfilled by Jesus.  the odds of this all happening as written are monumental. \n\nGod proved that He surpasses time and space with the prophesies, that He created time and space with the intricacy of His creation, and that He loves time and space with the sacrifice He paid.  maybe the Bible was penned by men, but each and every word written was via divine inspiration from God Himself.  no man could accomplish that.  religion was created by man, as the simple definition of "religion" is "man's quest for God"; however i believe in a different school of thought, and that is one of "God desiring a relationship with His creation; specifically man."  it isn't about being religious, it's about having a relationship with God.
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Let me first say that all my references from the Bible are from the New Internation Version (NIV).  Please don't take offense to anything I say.  That is in no way my intention.  If I were sitting with you in person, I would say the same things, probably more.  I am only trying to answer your questions to the best of my ability.\n\n1.  Jesus said "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."  (John 3:16-17)  In John 14:7, He said "If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.  From now on, you do know him and have seen him."  John 1:1 also says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." That may not specifically say "I am God," but it does say that Jesus is part of God and that whoever knows him knows God.  \n\n2.In John 14:6 it says "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me."  When teaching the way to Heaven, Jesus said "Enter through the narrow gate.  For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." (Matthew 7:13-14)  Those who don't go to Heaven will have an eternal life of sorts, an eternal life of torment in Hell.\n\n3.  In the days before Jesus came to earth, the Jews sacrificed animals to atone for their sins, as directed by God in the books of law, the first five books of the Old Testament.  Jesus came to teach us how to live a life to glorify God and attain eternal life with Him in Heaven.  In order to stop us from having to live according to the strict laws previously given, Jesus was crucified as a sacrifice to atone for the sins of all people to ever be born.  The short answer is because God loved us. (See John 3:16-17)\n\n4.  I don't believe it is God that makes us skeptical; it is Satan who gets into our heads and makes us skeptical.  Even Satan knows that God will eventually win in the end.  He wants to take as many people to Hell with him as possible.  God didn't create you to be an agnostic.  Satan put that in your mind.  No doubt, God made you intelligent.  He could have made us where we would never question Him on anything.  However, God didn't want a world full of puppets or robots.  He gave us free will.  Christianity isn't biased toward people who are easily led.  I know many Christians who are leaders, not followers.  I've known people who were very skeptical before becoming Christians.  Whether or not to believe in the Bible and in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is a decision that you make.  We either choose to believe or not.  Faith is the key word.  If you have faith in the world and science, you will most likely not be open to believing things that you cannot see and touch.  That doesn't mean it's impossible.  There are lots of Christians who once were skeptics.  Even Thomas, one of Jesus' disciples, needed to put his hand in the nail holes to believe that Jesus had been resurrected.  "So the other disciples told him, 'We have seen the Lord!'  But he said to them, 'Unless I see the nail marks in has hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.'  A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them.  Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you!' Then he said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands.  Reach out your hand and put it into my side.  Stop doubting and believe.'  Thomas said to him, 'My Lord and my God!'  Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed ar
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Mind you not all historians date them the same way... some believe the book of John was written at the very time Christ was living. John wrote that Gospel, the 3 letters of John and Revelation. The writing style changes from the Gospel to Revelation (70 yrs after Christ) and John seems to be writing in a much younger style. So many believe John was a young man when he wrote the Gospel and an old man when he wrote Revelation.
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Huh? Who is Jesus? Do you mean that jewish rabbi Jeshu that the greek christians renamed Jesus and claimed him as their God in the flesh? Didn't he already come back once? How many lives does that guy get any way? The last event would probably be "WORLD-WIDE PANIC"
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Well what religions are man made is a matter of opinion and not one that can be honestly answered objectively.  What relgion is the oldest in history is also unknowable because many polythestic relgions we know of have no a certained beginning to them.  We do not know how far back relgions go - possible to the first man and if you are of the monotheistic belief or polytheistic belief you will acertain that yours goes back to the first man.\n\nAs to your questions regarding the Book of Morman written by Joseph Smith (and I am sure I will offend someone by simplely saying he wrote it) I would suggest you look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons to begin some of your reading on the subject.\n\nGood Luck!!!
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Mat 11:12 - \n\n     And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence,  and the violent take it by force. \n\n     [The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence.]  And these words also make for the praise of John.  That he was a very eminent prophet,  and of no ordinary mission or authority,  these things evince;  that from his preaching,  the kingdom of heaven took its beginning,  and it was so crowded into by infinite multitudes,  as if they would take and seize upon the kingdom by violence.  The divine warmth of the people in betaking themselves thither by such numberless crowds,  and with so exceeding a zeal,  sufficiently argued the divine worth both of the teacher and of his doctrine.
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John 1:1\nIn the beginning was teh Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\n\nJohn 1:10\nHe was in the world, and the world was MADE BY HIM, and the world knew him not.\n\n1John 5:7\nFor there are three that bear record in ehaven, the Father, the WOrd, and the Holy Ghost, and these are One.\n\n1 John 5:8\nAnd there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.\n\n1 John 5:11\nAnd this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.\n\n1 John 5:20\nAnd we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life..\n\n\nOne God....
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I've never heard of the The Jesus bible before, where did you hear about it?
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No, jesus was just one of many supposed "sons of god" that came out of the middle east area during this the same period.  Mithras in Persia, Ra in Egypt, and Bacchus in Greece also were worshiped at the same time with similar stories (virgin birth, wise men led by star, miracles)  The Bible simply out-competed the other books.  Its funny how many religions have stories where women are impregnated by God at times when their husbands were out of town.
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Amazing how so many people actually believe there is evidence supporting the Jesus myths.\n\nThe only evidence anyone has that a person named Jesus of Nazareth existed is the bible itself. The primary reason people believe it to be true is because the Roman Empire executed anyone who refused to accept it as true.\n\n"Christianity"  is the biggest fraud in the history of mankind.
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Jesus didn't do that.  People who create and modify religious practice did that.  Jesus has been dead for over 2000 yrs.
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Two of the most meticulous record keepers of Ancient Times were the Romans and the Jews, and as you rightly point out, the events recorded in the Bible somehow seemed to escape their notice.  Pontius Pilate's court records still exist, and there is no mention of the trial of Jesus or of the supposed custom of allowing the crowd to free a prisoner.  It is a tradition among the Egyptian Coptic's that their Church was founded by the Apostle Mark, in 42 ad, certainly the first major Christian Chatecal School was in Alexandria, but not until 190, so there could have been several generations worth of revisions.  Hadn't heard that one about about the Sun metaphor, Jesus didn't even get a nimbus in religious art until the 5th century, and then it was part of political deal the Emperor was cutting, The three main religions in Rome at the time were Christianity, the scribes and record keepers, Mithra ism, the army, and Sol Invites (the Unconquerable Sun), the wealthy landowners.  He couldn't afford to make any of them mad, so he declared Mithra and Jesus were two names for the same being, and that YHWH was another name for Sol Invictus.  That is why the rays of the Sun became a Christian symbol of holiness.  The Bible, in it's current form, only dates back to the Vulgate, which was completed in 405.  Personally, I think we should go back to traditional values, this new fangled Christianity stuff just ain't working out.
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MAYBE YOU SHOULD READ EXACTLY WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT HIMSELF FOR YOURSELF, INSTEAD OF HEARSAY. John 3:16-18. if you need to look up anything or if you don't have a bible of your own click the link below
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There is both Biblical and non Biblical evidence. Josephus was a Jewish historian of his day. Never a christian BTW. He gave an account of Jesus is his record. Biblically, David the King wrote a Psalm all about the crucifixion a method of execution not used until the Romans invented it some 500 years later. Proof there is not. If there were we would all be damned because proof makes faith of no effective and people as saved by the grace of God through faith. Without faith we die...   Jim