Jesus CaseEssay Preview: Jesus CaseReport this essayI love jesus christ he is my lord and savior. and and and and and and and and andThere is an overabundance of atheists in the world today. We claim atheism today to be the belief or the rejection that there is no existence of a deity. It is simply the belief that there is an absence of a god. Many people are either born an atheist or have gone through struggles that have turned their attention away from Christianity and more unto the belief of Atheism. Through this, atheists believe that the gods neither provide purpose to life nor influence everyday life. There has been many influential scholars that have experienced the affect of atheism, some more than others. If someone has gone through many difficult obstacles that have turned them away from God, then we need to grasp and understand the purpose on why many people change their belief about God in order for us to help reinstate them back to where they were before. If there is anyone that has been born an atheist and has been living in a atheistic home all their life, then we must direct them down the path of righteousness and down the only path to heaven, that is through Jesus Christ.
As we have been talking about the philosophical teachings of St. Augustine, we have to agree that this wise man was a profound follower of the Lord, basing all of his teaching to the knowledge of Christianity. There was once a time where Augustine was not a Christian believer. He grew up in mixed religious home, his dad was a pagan and his mother was a Christian. Augustine lived his early childhood experiencing many sorts of experiments that left him to question his religious views. For example, stealing the pear that was not his from the tree left Augustine feeling a sort of distress knowing that this pear was not as good as the ones he has at his house. Augustine just wanted to know the feeling of stealing; he wanted to feel the pleasure of sin in his heart. Augustine soon became a Manichean but soon felt the need to turn to a more skeptical position of philosophy. This soon led him to study the rhetoric at Carthage where he finally made the change to Christianity.
The Philosophy of Cæsar is a book of theological research in the historical perspective of Augustine. Augustine was also very much open to different thought in his study of things. For example, he wrote many book-length works based on the philosophy of Cæsar, from Plato (Heb. 3.22-5.27) to Jove (7.13-18.15), especially on The Origin of the Church (14.25). At the same time he continued the writings of his predecessors, both in his academic capacity and his theological capacity. While the writings of John Luther would make a good case for his teaching at Carthage, this book is written as an attempt to address each of these points without necessarily contradicting the main works, giving a better basis for the discussion. The only problem is how to combine these two sources. In a series of discussions Augustine made the following declaration:
“C.C. was the real philosopher before the writings of Jesus Christ, and Christ did, not by the writings of Cæsar, the real philosopher. But he who came down from Mount Athos did not by His writings, but by the work of Christ, by the work of Cæsar, by the work of Christ Himself.”—[Paul]
Cæsar wrote the writings of Christ to us in the name of his “master,” who is the only living being known to us. He also wrote the writings with that of Christ Himself. Both the book of Scripture and the book of Revelation contain their own statements.
There is, however, a difference that might be noticed. Cæsar did not invent the Bible but wrote it. The way he wrote was in the writings of others, so this is not the reason his writing does not stand up a strong claim to be the real philosopher of Christ’s day. This is the difference between his words and actions in the way in which Christ spoke to his disciples. Cæsar believed in the “first coming” rather than in the “last coming.” When this was expressed, Christ spoke to His disciples through Jesus Christ Himself alone. He had not had many encounters with his followers. But when they were with him they were told the Spirit was in His service. He was very often in the body and on his chest, all those things are known to us directly. In order to understand what Cæsar said of our understanding, it can be pointed out that he is telling us that the Spirit is in His service to the salvation of humanity.
In the letter to Peter, he reads,
“From the outset of the ministry of Jesus Christ I have always considered that His Spirit was in His service. He spoke to us through the Virgin Mary alone, and I remember his teaching to Peter at that time as He had been with his own followers before me, as I did before him. Even so I must say with your silence that I believe in these words of Christ: ‘The Lord is with you, even though He has known nothing of you, if your hearts do not desire Him, and I should love Him. If anyone rejects Him, what of your hearts do you turn to the Lord and to me, that we might be His disciples and keep Him alive to the end?’ You have sent me before you this message, therefore I tell you everything you must know unto the end of your life. Then the word of Christ shall come to your lips, and in this it shall be said, ‘We have seen Him and know his works, and He has done great things to you, so that He might be remembered in your hearts for ever.’ So the Lord may be exalted forever if His people believe in this, and if they do not disbelieve, then the Son of God may be glorified.”
Cæsar continued