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In Raëlism, Jesus and several other religious figures are considered prophets sent by an extraterrestrial race called the Elohim. [58] The Religious Science movement considers Jesus to be a teacher of “Science of Mind”. [58] [59] The Lacandon people of Central America acknowledge Äkyantho', the god of foreigners. He has a son named ...
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).
Soon after his death, Jesus' followers believed he was raised from death by God and exalted to divine status as Lord "at God's 'right hand'," [52] which "associates him in astonishing ways with God." [ 53 ] [ m ] According to Hurtado, powerful religious experiences were an indispensable factor in the emergence of this Christ-devotion. [ 55 ]
The stoning to death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, in a painting by the 16th-century Spanish artist Juan Correa de Vivar. In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. [1]
As with neighboring groups, they understood death to be the end. Their afterlife, sheol (the pit), was a dark place from which none return. By Jesus' time, however, the Book of Daniel (Daniel 12:1–4) and a prophecy in Isaiah (26:19) [12] had made popular the idea that the dead in sheol would be raised for a last judgment.
Denial of the crucifixion of Jesus and/or the miraculous resurrection of Jesus. There is no extant contemporary record of the execution of Jesus though Jesus' crucifixion is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, and a consensus of historians accept it was a historical event, [1] although there is no consensus among historians on the exact details.
But religion is not the only factor in per capita suicide: among Catholics in Italy, the suicide rate is twice as high in Northern Italy than in the southern parts [4]. Hungary and Austria have majority Catholic populations but they are number 2 and number 5 in the list of countries that have the highest suicide rate. [ 5 ]
Jesus [d] (c. 6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, [e] Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. [10] He is the central figure of Christianity , the world's largest religion .