JBC

JBC In reading Albert Nolan’s Jesus before Christianity, I received a lot of insight about how life was in Jesus’ time and how we still reflect some of this history to the present. Before reading Nolan’s book, I never really understood any of the history behind Jesus. All I knew is that people generally portray him as a good man who only wants the best for everybody. I was very excited when I read the chapters about how Jesus felt about the poor and the oppressed and how he believes in forgiveness. I can say that I was born into the middle class of society just as Jesus was. Even though you can technically say that I am a middle class Samaritan, there have been many points in my life where we were on the brink of poverty. Money has been tight, food has been scarce, and not having shelter was not too far away. I have always been brought up to be happy for what I have because there is always someone out there who has far less then I have and would give anything to have what I have. I have been blessed with parents who would do jesus, christianity, people, oppressed, think, poor, give, being, mistakes, just, forgiveness, class, been, time, things, person, because, about, world, someone, socially, sinners, reading, one, middle, made, lot, know, jesus’, good, felt, far, different, believe, anything, able