Jesus The Big Man Himself and salvation Flashcards
What happened at Jesus’ Birth?
According to the Bible, the Virgin Mary was visited by the Angel Gabriel, who told her that she was to have a son and that he would be named Jesus. He would be a divine baby.
How do the gospels teach us how Jesus was born?
The gospels teach that Jesus had a human birth, the story of which is referred to as the nativity. Many Christians celebrate at Christmas to remember that God the Son was born in the person of Jesus.
How did the Incarnation (coming into flesh) happen?
When Jesus was born, God became present on earth as a human and as the second part of the Trinity - the Son. This is referred to as the incarnation of Jesus, as it was when God took on human form, becoming fully God and fully human at the same time. Jesus is referred to as Christ or Messiah and he showed Christians how they should live.
What happened during his final days?
Jesus performed one of his last miracles - the raising of Lazarus - when he was on his way to Jerusalem to celebrate the Jewish festival of Passover. This miracle made him even more popular with the Jewish people, and more and more people were beginning to take seriously the idea that Jesus was the Messiah. However, the religious leaders saw Jesus as a threat to their authority, so they planned to kill him.
Jesus’ trail and crucifixion?
Jesus was put on trial by the high priest and found guilty of blasphemy.
He was taken to see Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, who was responsible for keeping the peace and deciding who could be put to death. Pilate wanted to release Jesus and presented him to the crowd in the hope that they would want him to be freed.
However, they chanted crucify him (Mark 15:13) because they were heavily influenced by the religious leaders and priests who wanted Jesus to be executed. Pilate was therefore pressured into sentencing Jesus to be crucified.
Jesus was flogged and crucified at the site of Golgotha on the day that Christians know as Good Friday.
How does the crucifixion represent forgiveness of the sins of humanity
At the moment when Jesus died, the temple curtain ripped in two, which Christians understand to be a sign from God to show that Jesus’ death had atoned for the sins of humanity.
How did they realise Jesus was
After his death, Jesus’ body was taken down from the cross and placed into a rock tomb with a heavy stone covering its entrance.
When his female followers, including Mary Magdalene, visited the tomb the Sunday after his crucifixion, they saw that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb. Inside, Jesus’ body was missing.
In the garden surrounding the tomb, there appeared a man dressed in white. The women pled with him to return Jesus’ body, but the man explained that he was Jesus. Mary Magdalene returned to the disciples to tell them the good news that Jesus had risen from the dead. Christians call these events the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus is mentioned in the gospels as appearing many times over the next 40 days
What happened during Ascension?
Jesus greeted and blessed his disciples 40 days after his resurrection. He appeared and said:
Peace be to you. Then said he to Thomas, reach here your finger, and behold my hands; and reach here your hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God. Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. He then ascended to Heaven. The resurrection and ascension of Jesus prove to Christians that he is the Son of God. His sacrifice overcame sin and offers humans hope of eternal life.
