Jesus and the Walk of Life

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Jesus” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Jesus” and its relation with “Truth of Life”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “contribution of Jesus” and tries to gauge its effect on “human impression of truth”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Jesus” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Jesus” on “the lives of human beings” (1).

Jesus: The path to Life

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

To begin with the discussion and analysis of the paper, we shall intervene into the depths of the ebbs and abyss of Christianity and Jesus. Here, we shall be discussing the whereabouts of what are the crucial components involved in understanding the importance and significance to Jesus in our lives. Our main focus will be on Jesus and what impacts does he have on lives of believers and followers of his commands around the world.

God, Morality, and the Causal Order

Someone might respond to the above critique of Divine Command Theory by maintaining that since God, assuming there is a God, is the cause of everything, there could be (if the Judeo-Christian cosmological story is true) no goodness or anything else if there were no God. Given the truth of that tale, without God there would be nothing and thus there would be no valuables. But this confuses causes with reasons: confuses questions about bringing something into existence causally and sustaining and justifying its existence. If God exists and if he is what the scriptures say he is, everything causally depends on him. However, even if there were no God who made the world, it still would be vile to torture little children. Even if God had not created people and thus there were no people to be kind, it would still be timelessly true that kindness is a good thing. The goodness of kindness does not become good or cease to be good by God's fiat or anyone else's, or even because of the fact that there happen to be kind people. In terms of its fundamental rationale, morality is utterly independent of belief in God. Atheists can respond to the religious claim that if God is dead nothing matters by asserting that to make sense of our lives as moral beings there is no need to make what may be an intellectually stultifying blind leap of religious faith. Such a moral understanding, as well as a capacity for moral response and action, is available to us even if we are utterly without religious faith. There is no reason the atheist should be morally at sea.

Religious versus Secular Morality

There are religious moralists who would acknowledge this and yet still maintain that there are religious moralities which are (morally speaking) more adequate than anything available to atheists. We are religious beings in need of rituals and ...