One can portray Christ by our Christ like actions. We cannot portray him in looks as there is no description of him in scripture that can be authenticted. As stated it is by our Christ like actions can we portray him.
Ruth, although an ancestor of Jesus, lived about 1000 years before Jesus and so she knew nothing about Jesus and could not portray Him as anything.
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Yes, they did, but not with the intention of deception. It is typical to portray figures like Jesus with characteristics common to the prevailing culture. Asian countries portray Jesus with characteristics that are distinctly Asian.
No, he loves Mary Magdalene
The Book of Judges does not specifically portray Jesus, as it focuses on a period of ancient Israelite history before Jesus' time. However, some Christian interpreters may see parallels between certain judges in the book and aspects of Jesus' character or his role as a deliverer and leader.
In Mark's Gospel, the focus was on Jesus, with very little reason to portray God. However, Mark did portray God in the passages on the baptism of Jesus and the transfiguration. In Mark 1:11, there came a voice out of heaven, saying Thou art my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. In Mark 9:7, a cloud overshadowed the disciples and a voice came out of the cloud. So, when Mark had to portray God, it was as a voice out of heaven or out of a cloud.
To enable the audience to identify with them.
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A:Mark's Gospel was the first New Testament gospel to be written, dated to approximately 70 CE. If Mark portrays Jesus as fully human, which it certainly does, then this was probably the orthodoxy of his time. Later gospels, Matthew and Luke, portray him as the son of God from his conception, and eventually John portrays him as divine and pre-existing.
To remind them of the sacrifice that Christ made for mankind. There is a misconception that His death on the cross constituted the atonement, when in fact the atonement was made in the garden of Gethsemane.
A:The answer may depend on which source you use: Paul, in his epistles, may have regarded Jesus as a God, but not necessarily as a human who lived on earth - certainly not in the recent past.Mark's Gospel portrays Jesus as fully human, adopted by God at his baptism.Matthew and Luke portray Jesus as the son of God, born of a human mother. Perhaps their portrayal is consistent with the word 'godman'.John's Gospel does portray Jesus as fully divine and pre-existing. Whether or not John's anonymous author thought of Jesus as born on earth in the way that Matthew or Luke describes, is arguable.It was not until the third century that Christians began to speculate about the nature of Jesus, developing the notion of the Holy Trinity adopted at the Council of Nicaea. By the end of the fourth century, Christians in the Roman Empire were required to believe that Jesus was one with God the Father and with the Holy Spirit.A:No.The Bible doesn't teach there are many gods. The Bible teaches there is one God. So Jesus was not a god but he was God.