Jesus Christ - Who was he?

Jesus is a character in all of the four major religions and a player in several others. This article will look at who he was thought to be, in many of them.

Jesus first came into religion with Christianity. In Christianity he is believed to be the son of God. Through out the books of the New Testament, the authors portrayed him as a compassionate, caring person who taught the ways of god through parables. It was taught that God sent his son on a predestined mission to die on the cross to make atonement for mans sins and let man live through him to reach heaven. It is written in the New Testament that all you have to do to get to heaven is accept Jesus Christ as your savior.

Judaism has a vastly different view of Jesus. To many Jews he was just a mad man, perhaps a witch doctor that went around healing people but had no religious ties. To some Jews he was a saint but not the son of God.

Islam believes Jesus was another prophet just like Abraham and Mohammad. They believe that religion was corrupted by early Christians who compiled the New Testament. While he was a key figure in the Islamic Religion, to Islam he was not the son of God.

To most Buddhist Jesus is a fictional character, but to some, they believe that Jesus came to India between age 8 and age 29 and studied Buddhism with the great Buddhist of the time. A good book to research the Buddhist connection is “The Jesus Mystery” by Janet Bock.

I found my God through Jesus Christ so I profess myself a Christian but it is interesting to look at how these religions look at Jesus Christ and study how each one looks at this controversial figure.