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Oct 24, 2024 · Article Summary. Jesus profoundly changed people’s understanding of love and forgiveness, emphasizing unconditional love (agape) for all, including enemies, and teaching that forgiveness should be offered freely and repeatedly. This radical ethic continues to inspire social justice movements and conflict resolution efforts today.
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The essence of Jesus’ mission was to save the individual life of every person who chooses to put his or her trust in him. He didn’t just point the way to a set of ideals or moral principles as many other teachers did. Rather, he promised when we were “born again by his Spirit” he would come tolive inside of us, guiding and empowering us to live mea...
No one altered the role of women in society more than Christ. Prior to New Testament times, women labored in harsh, subservient roles, and were often nothing more than slaves to men and their families. Loren Cunningham and David Hamilton point out in their liberating book Why Not Women? that the Greek philosopher Cicero likened women to “slaves, do...
The application of Jesus’ teachings also gave permanent strength and completeness to the world’s most important institution—the family. Wives were not slaves, husbands weren’t to be tyrants, and children possessed significance. The Christian truths of submission, equal worth, partnership, equality, and self-sacrificing love gave harmony and protect...
Though the Church has not always properly applied the teachings of Christ, it is also true that no group of people have made a more positive impact on the history of the world than the Christian Church. The Church—the “called out ones” (Greek = ekklesia)—transformed the Roman Empire, rescued “learning” from the destruction of the Middle Ages, raise...
One of the things we both criticize and take for granted in the 21st century is the positive role of human governments that were shaped by Christianity. Prior to the Christian faith being applied to civil government, people lived in perpetual fear of massacres and tyrants. Your town could be here one day and be burned to the ground the next. You co...
Did you know that we would have lost much of the great literature of Greece and Rome (and other civilizations of the ancient world) if it weren’t for the Christian monks who preserved that knowledge through finding, preserving, and copying ancient writings during the Middle Ages? Are you aware that the first universities in Paris and London were st...
Even the development of human work, labor and industry, finds its zenith in the application of Christian truths. For most of history, and still in some parts of the world, there were only a few wealthy tyrants and then teeming masses of poor people. For thousands of years there was no middle class and no freedom for individual initiative. During th...
Rodney Stark in his marvelous book For the Glory of Godrightly points out that modern science was born of the Christian faith and not in opposition to it. It was Christian civilization that proposed that “design points to a Designer” and that man was placed on the earth to discover God’s secrets in nature and use those discoveries to benefit people...
Francis Shaeffer pointed out in his landmark book How Should We Then Live? that the coming of Christ greatly influenced the arts, and that prior to Christ’s birth music was played in minor chords, showing the incompleteness and lack of harmony in life. After Christ’s death and resurrection brought wholeness to individuals and nations, people began ...
Jesus lived a life of complete faith in the Father and imparted that faith to his followers. If Abraham is the father of faith in the ancient world, then Jesus is the engine of faith in the modern one. Faith in him has led his followers through the centuries to care for the poor; minister to the sick; start hospitals and schools; share the Good New...
- Women's Rights. Throughout ancient history we see endless examples of women treated inhumanely. All of a sudden, about 2,000 years ago, we see an incredible movement of women converting to Christianity.
- Human Rights. Today in America, we think basic human rights are common sense. But that has not always been the case. The idea that all humans should be treated with dignity was extremely rarebefore Christianity stepped onto the scene.
- Humanitarian Aid. In Luke 14:13 we see Jesus say, But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, And the Apostle John says in 1 John 3:17,
- Education. Christians have always been concerned with the mind. See Jesus’s words in Matthew 22:37, Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
Following Jesus’ crucifixion, his disciples were devastated. They had forsaken him in the Garden of Gethsemane to save their own lives. But after they met the resurrected Christ, they were radically changed. Suddenly, they were willing to give their lives to tell Jesus’ story to the world. Many were tortured and killed because they ...
Jesus changed the world by bringing helpful reforms that made the world a better place. Some of the ways Jesus managed to transform society are by ending bad practices, teaching good habits, and spreading the word of God. Since Jesus came to the world, his influence on people’s lives has never been surpassed.
Oct 31, 2017 · According to evidence spanning the last two millennia, the answer is no. Jesus of Nazareth has clearly been the most historically significant person in the world from the dawn of civilization to the present day. Although Jesus was born in the small village of Bethlehem, a few miles south of Jerusalem, in a client kingdom at the fringes of the ...
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Aug 13, 2012 · Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. His compassion for the poor and the sick led to institutions for lepers, the beginning of modern-day hospitals. The Council of Nyssa decreed that wherever a cathedral existed, there must be a hospice, a place of caring for the sick and poor.
