What was Jesus trying to prove?
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Jesus was lived like a human and died as human. He was an enlightened person- a person whom a average human fails to understand so we attach lots of miracles to his existence. We all are god but waste our whole love trying to find God. We cant beleive that we are God and if we drop our egos and be one with nature we all can be like Jesus. But its much too difficult. Its much easier to accept Jesus and other enlightened persons as God and spending whole time to worship them rather than awakening the God in us.
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Pretty much the best way to prove that Jesus was either the Son of God or not is to look to the resurrection (it does more than save people).  People have a hard time trying to prove that Jesus wasn't resurrected.  The biggest problems for those who criticize the resurrection are:\n1)  the authorities (Jewish and Roman) who tried to keep the faith from spreading, and\n2)  the martyrs.\nThere are others, but these are the major ones.
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The only proof I know of is that Jesus was resurrected. I would say that's as close to afterlife as you can get. So read the bible and there you may find your answer. :)
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Good question!  \nHere is the purpose for why Jesus told His disciples to gather together in Jerusalem after He ascended back to the right hand of Father GOD. . . . \nJesus talking . . .\nAnd said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: \n47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.\n48 And ye are witnesses of these things.\n49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.\n\nBaptism of the Holy Spirit is the Father's promise to believers to clothe them in power to DO verse 47 above.\n\nAGAIN JESUS SAID\n8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.\n\n9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.\nKJV
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What is to be proved? It's not clear.
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God has nothing to prove to you or I, The purpose of Christ was to serve multifunction, to fulfill prophesy, To create hope, and to prove to his angels that his casting Lucifer from his position was just. Lucifer held the keys to death prior to this act.\n\nJesus did this to act as a final act of sacrifice to honor the father so that we as sinners might have grace under his selflessness. Prior to this man was accountable to God for his disobedience where God required man to sacrifice the purest and the best of this earth. This ultimate show of faith opened the door to his love to extend to all humanity including you. \n\nYou might not believe this is true but denial doesn't make it any less tangible. You could not believe in air because you cannot see it, yet by its very being you live.
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To address each of your individual questions:\n\n1) Jesus was not a mortal, he was sent to earth in the form of a mortal.\n\n2) There is proof of Jesus physical existence, there are lots of historical accounts of this.  It would be harder to prove that he didn't exist.  Historians/Critics don't question Jesus's existence; they question whether Jesus was actually God or not.\n\n3) There are no "codes" in the Bible; this is a fiction created by man.\n\n4) Refer to #3\n\n5-6) Its called "faith" not "seeing is believing". /  John 20:29 "...Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."\n\n7) The men who wrote the various books of the Bible lived in different places and different times.  The miracle is that they all communicated the same information (which came from God) without having seen each others works.\n\n8)  We follow God because he has shown his love for us in the greatest possible way - by sending his son to die so that we could have eternal life instead of being punished to an eterinity in hell.  We obey him out of love and appreciation.  Why wouldn't you love and respect someone who has done something this great for you?
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Very correct in your conclusion.  Even those in Jesus time with all the proofs they had still did not believe in Him and a lot of those that did, did not want to admit it as they would be counted as His followers and maybe lose their important job.  Same today with all the evidence, many will not believe if a building were to fall on them to show that was truth.  The extra personal truth is that Jesus is a personal Saviour that knocks at each of our hearts and we have to but let Him in or not.
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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
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It is a good question actually. The reason God does not clarify things to end the confusion is because God doesn't do anything. It really is that simple. And Master Jesus made this perfectly clear but the Christians didn't listen because they were running around with "itchy ears" and "another gospel". It is safe to say that for all practical purposes there is no active god, and there never was.
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We are saying that the story of Jesus was probably embellished alot down the line. Perhaps he did not claim to be the son of god, maybe he was just a prophet or political activist who gained people's admiration - and ended up being persecuted by the politicians of the time for spreading his political message.
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The Christian answer is that he does try to save you. That’s what Jesus was all about. And all you have to do is have faith, which pretty much amounts to believing for the sake of believing or because you’re afraid of what will happen if you don’t. The problem with citing the bible as evidence is that the entire book amounts to nothing more than hearsay from people who barely understood the world around them. God is all-powerful, yet somehow he can’t seem to provide adequate proof that the bible is anything more than mythology. And every piece of “proof” that has been presented is flawed and the result of desperately wanting a given belief to be true.\n\nWhat I’ve seen here, so far, in the way of answers, amazes me. It’s so simple, right? Just put all of your faith into a book written 2000 years ago by people who believed, among other things, that the Earth was flat. Never doubt it, and close your mind to all logic. Just ignore the fact that logic has a MUCH better track record than tales of magic and miracles, and that stories we now know to be fictional were once accepted as fact the same way some people seem to be accepting this as fact. Just look around you. There are things we can’t understand. Pay no attention to the fact that as we gain knowledge, we learn and understand things that were once considered mysteries. That the same way some people point to life and marvel at its complexity, and claim that it MUST have been deisgned, people used to speak the same way about something as simple as a thunderstorm. We don’t understand it now, so it is impossible to understand, and therefore God must exist. Do you people see the flaw in this reasoning?!\n\nSearching with an open mind raises the kinds of questions you have just asked. Closing your mind is what provides the answers, and the fact is, it only makes sense because they want it to. I believe that the Christian answer IS possible. THAT is keeping an open mind. Insisting that it absolutely is the truth is just plain ignorant.\n\nLet me say that what so many have said, here, is possible. But it is only one of nearly infinite possibilities. Some people refuse to acknowledge that. My advice to you is this, don’t do the same. Accept that for the time being, we cannot know, and be open to all possibilities.
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The time of Jesus to find out what the truth really is.
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When Jesus entered the desert, he entered as a man and not as God.  It was at that point that Satan tried to tempt him, due to his potential weakness.  Jesus showed us that even the weakest man is stronger than Satan if he trusts in God.
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He tried to tempt Jesus into worshipping him and renounce God. Jesus got angry and told him off.
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Well, I think clearly that if you constantly ask yourself the question--as I'm sure G.W. does--"What would Jesus do?" the answers become very apparent:  You bomb the living daylights out of a country using evidence you've contrived out of thin air as a justification.  Didn't Jesus say to do that in the Bible somewhere?  He didn't?  You mean he said to turn the other cheek?  Oh.  Bummer.  That's kind of boring compared to bombing stuff.  Aren't there any religions that advocate bombing stuff?
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Because they did it themselves...It's fake!  Why would Jesus leave bruises on your body and cause you pain?  He suffered for us so we wouldn't have to experience it.