Jesus Christ - nationality. Mother and Father of Jesus Christ

The Orthodox Jews of Jerusalem were irreconcilable in their hostility to the teachings of Christ. Does this mean that Jesus was not a Jew? Is it ethical to question the virgin birth of the Virgin Mary?

Jesus Christ often called himself the Son of Man. The nationality of the parents, according to theologians, will shed light on the Savior’s belonging to a particular ethnic group.

According to the Bible, all humanity came from Adam. Later, people themselves divided themselves into races and nationalities. And Christ, during his lifetime, taking into account the Gospels of the Apostles, did not comment on his nationality in any way.

Birth of Christ

The country of Judea, where Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born, in those ancient times was a province of Rome. Emperor Augustus ordered a census of the population. He wanted to find out how many inhabitants there were in each of the cities of Judea.

Mary and Joseph, the parents of Christ, lived in the city of Nazareth. But they had to return to their ancestral homeland, Bethlehem, to add their names to the lists. Once in Bethlehem, the couple could not find shelter - so many people came to the census. They decided to stop outside the city, in a cave that served as a refuge for shepherds during bad weather.

That night Mary gave birth to a son. Having wrapped the baby in swaddling clothes, she put him to sleep where they put feed for livestock - in the manger.

The shepherds were the first to know about the birth of the Messiah. They were tending flocks in the vicinity of Bethlehem when an angel appeared to them. He broadcast that the savior of humanity had been born. This is a joy for all people, and the sign for identifying the baby will be that he lies in a manger.

The shepherds immediately went to Bethlehem and came across a cave, in which they saw the future Savior. They told Mary and Joseph about the angel's words. On the 8th day, the couple gave the child a name - Jesus, which translated means “savior” or “God saves.”

Was Jesus Christ a Jew? Was nationality determined by father or mother at that time?

False artifacts

At the moment, there are no known reliable items belonging to Jesus or associated with his name from that era. For comparison: the historicity of the same Pontius Pilate, who, according to legend, condemned Christ to death, is confirmed by a stone slab found by archaeologists with his name, as well as a ring. It is curious that the image of Pilate himself in the New Testament strongly contradicts the available historical information. According to historians of the time, the prefect of Judea was an extremely cruel man, ready to execute at least 1,000 innocent people for one guilty person. It is unlikely that such a ruler would have thought long about the execution of a Jewish righteous man. However, it is also possible that the real prototype of Jesus really interested the real Pilate with his reasoning.

Christians tried with all their might to confirm the reality of the existence of their Deity with various artifacts. Only now their fakeness has been completely proven, and even many believers admit this.

The most striking example of such a fake is the Shroud of Turin, according to legend - the same cloth in which Jesus was wrapped after his execution. The image of his body was allegedly miraculously imprinted on it.

Shroud of Turin

Studies of the shroud have shown that the canvas dates back to the 9th-13th centuries. And the image on it is just a drawing. The prints left on the fabric are completely unrealistic and could not have been made by a real body in any position. Also, the genital area is completely absent from the image - it is covered by the arms, but in reality such a length of arms is simply impossible. Of course, in the Middle Ages, when this work was created, they simply could not allow a realistic depiction of the human body. The Catholic Church now recognizes the unreliability of the shroud, but at the same time considers it an important relic reminiscent of the suffering of Christ. Other false artifacts include, for example, the nails with which Jesus was crucified. Almost forty pieces of such nails have survived to this day, and in the Middle Ages such fakes probably numbered in the hundreds and thousands. Of course, these items have nothing to do with reality. Here we can recall an episode from the film “The Monk and the Demon” of 2016, where the main character, having gone to Jerusalem, was amazed by the extensive trade in “souvenirs” - a pile of nails, thorns from a crown of thorns, etc. were offered for purchase. And this was reality - such “souvenirs” were indeed very popular until the 20th century.

One of the supposed nails

In general, in the Middle Ages they did not disdain various kinds of fakes. The Byzantines and Catholics became especially famous for this. The “Plate of Veronica” with the image of Christ’s face allegedly imprinted on it, pieces of the crown of thorns, holy spears (with which, according to legend, Jesus Christ was pierced in the side) - they also exist in several copies, which contradicts common sense. And also the foreskin of Christ (who was circumcised in infancy), the manger of Christ, the robe of Christ and much more. Some of these relics have already been officially recognized as fakes. Interestingly, in 1960, Pope John XXIII issued an official notice prohibiting any mention of the foreskin...

Foreskin of Christ

Relics associated with the holy companions of Jesus (also multiplied in huge numbers at one time) are also popular. These are the Belt of the Virgin Mary, the head of John the Baptist (of which there are several), chains and the sword of St. Peter, etc.

Of course, all of the above artifacts relate only to the plane of faith and cannot in any way be evidence of the real existence of Jesus of Nazareth. Moreover, if we take into account the activity with which such relics “proliferated” in the Middle Ages.

Star of Bethlehem

On the very night when Christ was born, a bright, unusual star appeared in the sky. The Magi, who studied the movements of celestial bodies, went after her. They knew that the appearance of such a star spoke of the birth of the Messiah.

The Magi began their journey from an eastern country (Babylonia or Persia). The star, moving across the sky, showed the sages the way.

Meanwhile, the numerous people who came to Bethlehem for the census dispersed. And Jesus' parents returned to the city. The star stopped over the place where the baby was, and the wise men went into the house to present gifts to the future Messiah.

They offered gold as tribute to the future king. They gave incense as a gift to God (incense was still used in worship back then). And myrrh (fragrant oil with which they rubbed the dead), as for a mortal person.

King Herod

The local king Herod the Great, subordinate to Rome, knew about the great prophecy - a bright star in the sky marks the birth of a new king of the Jews. He called to him the magicians, priests, and soothsayers. Herod wanted to know where the baby Messiah was.

With deceitful speeches and deceit, he tried to find out the whereabouts of Christ. Having not received an answer, King Herod decided to exterminate all the babies in the area. 14 thousand children under the age of 2 were killed in and around Bethlehem.

However, ancient historians, including Josephus, make no mention of this bloody event. This may be due to the fact that the number of children killed was much smaller.

It is believed that after such an atrocity, the wrath of God punished the king. He died a painful death, eaten alive by worms in his luxurious palace. After his terrible death, power passed to the three sons of Herod. The lands were also divided. The regions of Perea and Galilee went to Herod the Younger. Christ spent his life in these lands for about 30 years.

Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, beheaded John the Baptist to please his wife Herodias. The sons of Herod the Great did not receive the royal title. Judea was ruled by a Roman procurator. Herod Antipas and other local rulers obeyed him.

Mother of the Savior

The Virgin Mary's parents were childless for a long time. At that time it was considered a sin; such a union was a sign of God's wrath.

Joachim and Anna lived in the city of Nazareth. They prayed and believed that they would definitely have a child. Decades later, an angel appeared to them and announced that the couple would soon become parents.

According to legend, the Virgin Mary was born on September 21. The happy parents swore that this child would belong to God. Until the age of 14, Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was raised in the temple. From a young age she saw angels. According to legend, the Archangel Gabriel looked after and protected the future Mother of God.

Mary's parents died by the time the Virgin had to leave the temple. The priests could not keep her. But they also felt sorry for letting the orphan go. Then the priests betrothed her to the carpenter Joseph. He was more of the Virgo's guardian than her husband. Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, remained a virgin.

What was the nationality of the Mother of God? Her parents were natives of Galilee. This means that the Virgin Mary was not a Jew, but a Galilean. By confession, she belonged to the Law of Moses. Her life in the temple also points to her upbringing in the faith of Moses. So who was Jesus Christ? The nationality of the mother, who lived as a pagan in Galilee, remains unknown. The mixed population of the region was dominated by Scythians. It is possible that Christ inherited his appearance from his mother.

Evidence from Christians

Of course, if you set the task of scientifically proving the existence of Christ (or his prototype), then relying on religious texts makes no sense. Of course, for a believer, the fact of the reality of Jesus is primarily an object of faith, and therefore we are not talking about knowledge here, therefore, the simple statement “Jesus Christ is the God-man” is suitable as “proof” - and that’s all.

But if we try to approach the issue from a secular point of view, then there is a need to critically examine both the Bible itself and other evidence about the personality of the “King of the Jews.”

Thus, evidence on the part of Christians will always be based on faith. Christian clergy often appeal to the fact that a person of such magnitude simply could not be a figment of fantasy. This statement is controversial, but perhaps somewhat true. Modern scientists are also inclined to believe that Christ had some kind of real prototype. Whether his name was the same or differently, and whether there were events in his life described in the Gospel is already a question.

Father of the Savior

For a long time, theologians have been debating whether Joseph should be considered the biological father of Christ? He had a fatherly attitude towards Mary, he knew that she was innocent. Therefore, the news of her pregnancy shocked the carpenter Joseph. The Law of Moses severely punished women for adultery. Joseph was supposed to stone his young wife.

He prayed for a long time and decided to let Mary go and not keep her near him. But an angel appeared to Joseph, announcing an ancient prophecy. The carpenter realized how much responsibility he had for the safety of the mother and child.

Joseph is Jewish by nationality. Can he be considered the biological father if Mary had an immaculate conception? Who is the father of Jesus Christ?

There is a version that the Roman soldier Pantira became the biological father of the Messiah. In addition, there is a possibility that Christ was of Aramaic origin. This assumption is due to the fact that the Savior preached in Aramaic. However, at that time the language was widespread throughout the Middle East.

The Jews of Jerusalem had no doubt that the real father of Jesus Christ existed somewhere. But all versions are too dubious to be true.

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What “nationality” was Jesus Christ?

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Sunday, December 26, 2010 20:20
I don’t understand why everyone was up in arms against the Jews, because Jesus Christ also belonged to this nation, and the apostles too. These are God's chosen people...

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combatant responds Monday, December 27, 2010 04:40

That is life

, took up arms not against the Jews, but against the Jews (Tsrkvn.-Slav.).
On those who crucified Christ at the hands of Roman pagan soldiers, while shouting “His blood be on us and on our children!” (Matthew, chapter 27, verse 25)
, and on those who are, first of all, THEIR SPIRITUAL RECEIVERS and FOLLOWERS in effective anti-Christianity.
About such people, the Savior Himself, even before Gethsemane and Golgotha, said “your father is the devil” (John, chapter 8, verse 44)
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“you do the works of your father”
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In the Revelation of the Apostle of Love John the Theologian, the Savior’s confidant friend, it is said this way: “they say of themselves that they are Jews, but they are not, but a synagogue of Satan” (Rev., ch. 2, v. 9)
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By the way, <...> according to the Jewish laws of the Old Testament (not to be confused with the New Testament New Judaism, the bearers of which are Berl Lazar and others like him - approx.):

— strictly speaking, Jesus Christ WAS NOT A JEW!!! Let me explain. Using the example of the Old Testament, one can see that nationality in the Old Testament Jewry was transmitted through the FATHER, and not, as is now the case with the (New) Jews, through the mother. Compare: “Abraham begat Isaac; Isaac gave birth to Jacob; Jacob begat Judah and his brothers;” (Matt. 1:2). Continuing to outline the genealogy of Jesus Christ, Matthew sequentially lists in verse 2 those ancestors of the Savior to whom God promised that from their descendants the Messiah, the Savior of the world, would be born. The Bible speaks of Abraham as the progenitor of the Jewish people. “Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed” (Gen. 18:18). The Bible explains that Abraham received this honor for his reverence for God and for his obedience to God. “And through thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice” (Gen. 22:18).

(link https://blagovest.al.lg.ua/9808/05.html) Simply put, by definition of nationality ACCORDING to his father, Jesus Christ is NOT national. Because according to the Father (conventionally - with a small letter) He is God. And only for the completeness of the Truth, IMHO, by birth from a Jewish woman of the Jewish law, Mary, Jesus Christ as the God-man can be considered a Jew in the modern interpretation of (new) Judaism. An analogy of such fullness and harmony of God can be seen both at the birth of man (God created Adam, but from him - a husband, a wife was born - from his rib), and at the second birth of humanity - the Nativity of the Savior, when from a wife (Virgin Mary) is born husband (God-man Jesus Christ). And in baptism in whose Name fallen man is born to eternal life.<…>

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Monday, December 27, 2010 09:42

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, You wrote everything correctly. Only blzh. Theophylact of Bulgaria writes that our Lord was from the Jews in the flesh: “We can understand by “salvation” the Lord Himself, who was from the Jews in the flesh.”

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What “nationality” was Jesus Christ?

Heated debates sometimes flare up on this topic. For example, at the forum of Deacon Andrei Kuraev, such a discussion began with the statement “Christ is a Jew by nationality” with the sermon of Bishop Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) “Let the wicked lips be silenced!” from the book “The Gracious Heat of Repentance”:

... Recently, with extreme surprise, I heard that my words about the Most Holy Theotokos in one of my sermons, in which I said that She was a Jew, struck some of you very unpleasantly... They say: “What, Jesus Christ was a Jew?! What, then, do we worship the Jew crucified on the Cross!?” Oh, my Lord, my Lord! How these crazy words struck me, this complete ignorance of sacred history, this wicked reasoning. Don’t you know that our forefather Abraham was the ancestor of the people of Israel, i.e. Jewish people! Don't you know that all the holy prophets were Jews? Have you never read the following words in the letter of the holy Apostle Paul to the Jews: “It is known that our Lord rose from the tribe of Judah”? What is the tribe of Judah? The Tribe of Judah is one of the 12 tribes, of the 12 clans into which the people of Israel, the Jewish people, were divided. So, the fact that Christ was a Jew is unpleasant for some. Why might this be unpleasant? Why can the people who were chosen by God, marked by God, be unpleasant, why? Because we still have old antipathies towards Jews. So we need to uproot this antipathy. If this is God’s chosen people, then we must treat them with deep respect and love. After all, Christianity began from the depths of the Jewish people; the first Christians were all Jews. Shouldn’t we therefore love the people from which Christ shone, from which our Christianity began?.. Let the wicked lips be silenced, daring to speak rude words mocking Christ, about which I said: “Do we really worship the one crucified on the cross?” A Jew?!” Yes, we will, we will worship, for this Jew was the Son of God...” (1947)

This argumentation of Bishop Luke seems to us not entirely appropriate, especially as an argument against the so-called. "anti-Semitism".

Since the Jewish nationality has not proven itself in the best way in all nations over the past two thousand years, belonging to it seems pleasant to few people. It would be the other way around - they would compete for the honor of belonging to Jewry. This is the main reason for this dispute. Therefore, pagan Judeophobes, wanting to offend Russian Orthodox Christians, call Christ “Jew.” Some Judeophobic Christians, for the same reason, vehemently deny this, citing arguments that the Virgin Mary and Jesus were Galileans, Christ spoke Aramaic, his facial features were Aryan, as was the blood type found on the Shroud, etc.

However, it seems to us that this is not the case at all. There is no doubt that the Son of God was incarnated in the chosen (more precisely: created) Jewish people for this purpose, in its best and purest small part - in the Old Testament Church, in the descendants of King David (both Joseph the Betrothed and the Most Pure Mother of God came from this family). The fact that the Messiah was incarnated precisely in this central people of history

, to whom such a promise was given by God Himself, but he refused this chosenness - this is the spiritual logic of the entire Holy Scripture, the meaning of history, the tragedy of God’s chosen people, who chose to choose another “father” for themselves and become Satan’s chosen one for Satanization and destruction of the world. The great calling and great fall of God's chosen people is the core of the drama of human history. Anyone who denies the original chosenness of the Jews by God is not able to understand the meaning of history, which is ending before our eyes as described in the Apocalypse.

However, did this incarnation give “nationality” to the Son of God for the duration of His earthly life? On the one hand, yes, because He acquired human flesh from the Jewish Virgin (and She, the Purest Vessel that contained God, had no reason to be ashamed of her Jewishness, on the contrary: then pious Judaism, Judaism, was the complete opposite of the current Talmudic one). In this flesh, Christ communicated with the Jewish people, preached among them, suffered, and was crucified by these people at the instigation of their leaders.

But on the other hand, the creed says about Christ: “And in one Son of God, the only begotten, who was begotten of the Father before all ages

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Can we say that the Son of God was born with some kind of human nationality if He was born of God the Father and existed before the beginning of time, before the creation of the earth and humanity, and before the appearance of the Jewish people? Further, the creed says: “and became incarnate of the Holy Spirit and became man
. That is, in the Mother of God Mary He later became man; it does not say “became Jewish” only for the Jews. So, speaking about the Nativity of Christ, we mean his Incarnation in human form for all people, and not for the sanctification of Jewish blood and flesh as sinless for all times. And the flesh of the Jewish people, after all, was also not originally “Jewish” (it was created by God in Adam, from whom all nations have their flesh), that is, this flesh was originally created as universal, and began to be called “Jewish” from Abraham.

So did the incarnate Christ become precisely a “Jew” – or did he simply become human in Jewry? After all, He did not cease to be the Son of God, “begotten before all ages,” and He came into the world for all mankind, and not just for the Jewish people - this was only the place of coming. At the same time, the non-Jewish wise men greeted him, and the Jewish leaders condemned him to crucifixion. Christianity was adopted mainly by Japhetic (European) peoples, not by Jews. Therefore, to call Christ a “Jew” by blood for the purpose of national exaltation of Jewry means inappropriately belittling the eternal God-manhood of the Son of God (for the redemption of people from all nations). Moreover, now the word “Jew” has several shades of meaning, and it is not appropriate to squeeze Christ the Savior today - no matter for what purposes: philo-Semitic or “anti-Semitic” - into the carnal framework of that now spiritually degenerated tribe, overwhelmed by national pride, which itself refused consider Him as Your Messiah

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And really, having ascended to Heaven, the Son of God took with him the “nationality” in which he temporarily acted in earthly life for the salvation of all people? Does He need it (the blood nationality of the spiritually reborn former God's chosen people, who became Satan's chosen people), sitting in Heaven at the right hand of His Father? Does God the Father Himself, whom Jews and Judaizers also often try to nationalize with the term “Jewish God”, need any kind of “nationality”? God existed eternally, even before the appearance of the Jews, and His true children are in all nations, not just the Jewish ones. This is done by the Jews in order to declare “blasphemous” any criticism of any Jewry, including anti-Christian Judaism with all its crimes.

Moreover, the Apostle Paul said about the “nationality” of the chosen people: “Not all the children of Abraham who are of his seed... That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are recognized as the seed” (Rom. 9:7–8) . “If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise” (Gal. 3:29). So it’s time for the neo-pagans to stop telling us about “the admiration of Christians for Jewish Israel.” Our Israel is the new people of God: the Church. – This is the true “nationality” of Christ: He, by His earthly nature, is All-Man.

Mikhail Viktorovich NAZAROV,

Orthodox writer, publicist,

founder of the publishing house "Russian Idea"

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“For to which of the Angels did [God] ever say: You are My Son, today I have begotten You? And again: I will be His Father, and He will be My Son?” (Heb. 1:5)

“So the Messiah (Christ) did not appropriate to Himself the glory of being a high priest, but He who said to Him: You are My Son, today I have begotten You;” (Heb. 5:5)

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Image of Christ

The document of those times, describing the appearance of Christ, is called “The Epistle of Leptulus.” This is a report to the Roman Senate, written by the proconsul of Palestine, Leptulus. He claims that Christ was of medium height with a noble face and good figure. He has expressive blue-green eyes. The hair, the color of a ripe walnut, is combed in the middle. The lines of the mouth and nose are impeccable. In conversation he is serious and modest. He teaches gently and in a friendly manner. Scary in anger. Sometimes she cries, but never laughs. A face without wrinkles, calm and strong.

At the Seventh Ecumenical Council (8th century) the official image of Jesus Christ was approved. The Savior should have been painted on the icons in accordance with his human appearance. After the Council, painstaking work began. It consisted of reconstructing a verbal portrait, on the basis of which a recognizable image of Jesus Christ was created.

Anthropologists claim that the icon painting uses not the Semitic, but the Greco-Syrian type of appearance: a thin, straight nose and deep-set, large eyes.

In early Christian icon painting they were able to accurately convey the individual, ethnic features of a portrait. The earliest image of Christ was found on an icon dating from the beginning of the 6th century. It is kept in Sinai, in the monastery of St. Catherine. The face of the icon is similar to the canonized image of the Savior. Apparently, the early Christians considered Christ a European type.

Nationality of Christ

There are still people who claim that Jesus Christ is a Jew. At the same time, a huge number of works have been published on the topic of the non-Jewish origin of the Savior.

At the beginning of the 1st century AD, as Hebraic scholars found out, Palestine split into 3 regions, which differed in their confessional and ethnic characteristics.

1. Judea, led by the city of Jerusalem, was inhabited by Orthodox Jews. They obeyed the law of Moses.
2. Samaria was closer to the Mediterranean Sea. The Jews and Samaritans were long-time enemies. Even mixed marriages between them were prohibited. In Samaria there were no more than 15% of Jews from the total number of inhabitants.
3. Galilee consisted of a mixed population, some of whom remained faithful to Judaism.

Some theologians claim that the typical Jew was Jesus Christ. His nationality is beyond doubt, since he did not deny the entire system of Judaism. But he just disagreed with some of the tenets of the Mosaic Law. Then why did Christ react so calmly to the fact that the Jews of Jerusalem called him a Samaritan? This word was an insult to a true Jew.

Bible Reliability

It has been proven that the books of the Bible, if considered as a historical source, contain inconsistencies and outright errors. For example, the Gospel of Matthew states that Jesus was born under King Herod I, and at the same time “in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar.” But it is reliably known that Herod died in 4 BC. Accordingly, either Mary’s son was not born in 1 AD, as is commonly believed, or this is an error in the text. And the gospel of Luke states that he was born during the census, which was carried out in 6-8 AD. Birth in the first year of our era is a later accepted convention.

The Gospel of Garima is one of the oldest books in the world, written in the 3rd century

That is, even the date (and place) of the birth of the Jewish preacher is not known with certainty. Nazareth as the place of his birth appeared only in the 3rd century, and the legend about his birth in Bethlehem in our time is considered more fiction than truth.

It must be admitted that the books of the gospels, in principle, contain quite contradictory information, many of which are not confirmed in any of the historical sources of that time. It is also worth considering the fact that all currently known copies of the gospels were written in the 2nd century, while some clearly earlier texts were subject to later edits.

Nowadays, even believers agree that the Gospel has been subject to numerous alterations. For example, it is known that the following episodes were inserted later:

• Forgiveness of a woman caught in adultery (cheating on her husband)
• The injunction to abstain from certain types of food (strangulated meat, blood) - this was added, probably, out of a desire to gain approval from the Jews.
• The covenant to cast out the devil “by prayer and fasting”, about fasting was added later, apparently to justify the ascetic practice of the Middle Ages.

There are also many later alterations and changes, sometimes radically changing the meaning of certain phrases of the New Testament. For example, in the original, Christ, who healed the blind man, “was angry and stretched out his hands over him.” To soften this episode, the word “mercifully” was later used.

By the way, it is the mentions in the text of the Gospel of manifestations of the complex character of Jesus that serve as indirect evidence for scientists of his real existence. If this were a completely fictional character, then it is unlikely that his official biography would include such unflattering episodes as the expulsion of merchants from the temple with whips and other manifestations of anger.

Also, a purely human and, apparently, genuine character trait of Jesus is a not too respectful attitude towards his mother and relatives. There is also a clear negative attitude towards the rich - a trait of coming from a poor family, which is also most likely real.

God or man?

So who is right? Those who claim that Jesus Christ is God? But then what nationality can one demand from God? He is beyond ethnicity. If God is the basis of all things, including people, there is no need to talk about nationality at all.

What if Jesus Christ is a man? Who is his biological father? Why did he receive the Greek name Christ, which means “anointed one”?

Jesus never claimed to be God. But he is not a person in the usual sense of the word. His dual nature was the acquisition of a human body and a divine essence within that body. Therefore, as a man, Christ could feel hunger, pain, anger. And as a vessel of God - to create miracles, filling the space around you with love. Christ said that he does not perform healings on his own, but only with the help of a Divine gift.

Jesus worshiped and prayed to the Father. He completely submitted himself to His will in the last years of his life and called on the people to believe in the One God in heaven.

As the Son of Man, he was crucified for the salvation of people. As the Son of God, he was resurrected and incarnated in the trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

Miracles of Jesus Christ

About 40 miracles are described in the Gospels. The first happened in the city of Cana, where Christ, his mother and the apostles were invited to a wedding. He turned water into wine.

Christ performed the second miracle by curing a patient whose illness lasted 38 years. The Jews of Jerusalem became embittered with the Savior - he violated the rule about the Sabbath. It was on this day that Christ worked himself (he healed the sick) and forced another to work (the sick man carried his own bed).

The Savior raised the dead girl, Lazarus and the widow's son. He healed a demoniac and calmed a storm on Lake Galilee. Christ fed the people with five loaves after the sermon - about 5 thousand of them gathered, not counting children and women. Walked on water, healed ten lepers and the blind of Jericho.

The miracles of Jesus Christ prove his Divine essence. He had power over demons, illness, death. But he never performed miracles for his own glory or to collect offerings. Even during interrogation by Herod, Christ did not show a sign as evidence of his power. He did not try to defend himself, but asked only for sincere faith.

Resurrection of Jesus Christ

It was the resurrection of the Savior that became the basis for a new faith - Christianity. The facts about him are reliable: they appeared at a time when eyewitnesses of the events were still alive. All recorded episodes have slight discrepancies, but do not contradict each other as a whole.

The empty tomb of Christ indicates that the body was taken (by enemies, friends) or Jesus rose from the dead.

If the body had been taken by enemies, they would not have failed to mock the disciples, thus stopping the emerging new faith. Friends had little faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ; they were disappointed and depressed by his tragic death.

Honorary Roman citizen and Jewish historian Josephus mentions the spread of Christianity in his book. He confirms that on the third day Christ appeared alive to his disciples.

Even modern scientists do not deny that Jesus appeared to some followers after death. But they attribute this to hallucinations or other phenomena, without challenging the authenticity of the evidence.

The appearance of Christ after death, the empty tomb, the rapid development of a new faith are proof of his resurrection. There is not a single known fact that denies this information.

Christ with afro and pigtails

This item is not for racists. In the 20th century, the theory that Christ was black spread. In particular, the American cultural scientist R.H. Paris states that Jesus is of African descent. That’s why it darkened, because the Jews came to the territory of Israel from Egypt (according to Peris). However, Joseph's seed has nothing to do with Jesus. And in the scientific world there is no mention of black Jews. At most, the prophet could be very tanned while working outside.

For Muslim African Americans, the dark Jesus (Isa) is the basis of the ideology of the Nation of Islam sect. Martin Luther King mentioned the theory of the “black Christ” in his political struggle and propaganda of equality. He compared his torment with the suffering of the oppressed. I wouldn't be surprised if a theory soon emerges that Jesus was gay.

In Ethiopia, they simply believe that the son of God is really black. This argument does not apply in political struggle. Believers paint icons about a boy with a halo and an afro. In some, he looks more like an NBA player than a saint. Pictures of historical events also tell the story of a dark-skinned Jesus. In them, he drives merchants out of the temple in traditional clothing for these places, poses with the dark-skinned Trinity and baptizes people in the Nile. If you travel around Africa, be sure to go to a Christian church to see the painting. The style of icons varies greatly in different regions of the continent: in Lesotho they resemble cave paintings, while in Ethiopia and Congo they are closer to familiar images. But they are united by the dark skin tone of the saints, which will be unusual for you. As Agutin sang:

“Unlike you, unlike me, Just a black guy passing by.”

Appointment by God

Already from the first Ecumenical Councils, the Church unites the human and divine nature of the Savior. He is one of the 3 hypostases of the One God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This form of Christianity was recorded and declared the official version at the Council of Nicaea (in 325), Constantinople (in 381), Ephesus (in 431) and Chalcedon (in 451).

However, disputes about the Savior did not stop. Some Christians claimed that Jesus Christ is God. Others insisted that he was only the Son of God and was completely subject to his will. The basic idea of ​​the trinity of God is often compared to paganism. Therefore, disputes about the essence of Christ, as well as about his nationality, do not subside to this day.

The cross of Jesus Christ is a symbol of martyrdom for the atonement of human sins. Does it make sense to discuss the nationality of the Savior if faith in him can unite different ethnic groups? All people on the planet are children of God. The humanity of Christ stands above national characteristics and classifications.

What about nationalities for life in the spiritual world?

11 For the Scripture says: Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame. 12 There is no difference here between a Jew (nationality - Jew) and a Greek (nationality - any other), because there is one Lord for all (with the Lord, all people belong to Him and have His nationality!), rich for all who call on Him. (Rom.10:11,12)

those. this is only true for those born again who have called on the name of God.