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The religious perspectives on Jesus vary among world religions. [1] Jesus ' teachings and the retelling of his life story have significantly influenced the course of human history , and have directly or indirectly affected the lives of billions of people, including non-Christians.
The Quran, as we have already argued, does not deny the death of Christ. Rather, it challenges human beings who in their folly have deluded themselves into believing that they would vanquish the divine Word, Jesus Christ the Messenger of God. The death of Jesus is asserted several times and in various contexts (Quran 3:55; 5:117; 19:33).
Christianity teaches that Jesus was condemned to death by the Sanhedrin and the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate, crucified, and after three days, resurrected. Islam teaches that Jesus was a human prophet who, like the other prophets, tried to bring his people to worship the one true God, termed Tawhid .
Through Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection, Christians believe that God offers humans salvation and eternal life, [1] with Jesus's death atoning for all sin. These teachings emphasize that as the Lamb of God, Jesus chose to suffer nailed to the cross at Calvary as a sign of his obedience to the will of God, as an "agent and servant of God".
[27] Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh affirmed core Christian beliefs such as the trinity, and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in his book Living Buddha, Living Christ. Bokin Kim, similarly, sees Christ as the Buddha Dharmakaya , and Jesus as similar to Gautama who was just a historical manifestation of the transhistorical ...
The crucifixion of Jesus was the death of Jesus by being nailed to a cross. [note 1] It occurred in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33.It is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, and later attested to by other ancient sources.
[165] [162] Early Christians may have also been influenced by the idea that Jesus had died on the anniversary of his conception; [163] because Jesus died during Passover and, in the third century AD, Passover was celebrated on 25 March, [163] they may have assumed that Jesus's birthday must have come nine months later, on 25 December.
According to mainstream Christian doctrine, the bodily resurrection of Jesus after his death is the pivotal event of Jesus's life and death, as described in the Gospels and the Pauline epistles. According to the Gospels, Jesus preached for one to three years in the early 1st century.