and is observed by billions of people. It celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, who

is considered the Messianic protagonist of the Christian faith. Over the past two millennia,

Jesus has become one of the best known figures in religion and history. So, just how powerful

is Jesus?

Well, Jesus means a lot of different things to different people. First and foremost, in

Christian mythology he is considered the Son of God. Basically, the Christian Bible is

made up of two parts: the Old Testament, which is based on the Hebrew Bible and predicts

the coming of a Messiah, and the New Testament, which is based on Jesus Christ as that Messiah,

or savior. Now, most religious scholars agree that there are historical facts surrounding

Jesus’s life.  It is generally believed that in the early first century, a Jewish

rabbi who had been baptized by John the Baptist, preached in Galilee and Judea, and was crucified

by the Romans. Beyond this, Christians believe that during his life Jesus performed miracles,

and that after his death, he rose from the dead, ascended to heaven, and will one day

return to judge everyone who ever lived. Problematically, there exist no accounts of Jesus while he

was actually alive. The gospels were not written until well after his death.

But despite Jesus’s predominant role in Christianity, he is also a well known figure

within the other Abrahamic religions. In Islam, Christ is also believed to be the Messiah

and is revered as the predecessor of Islam’s greatest and final prophet, Muhammad. Similar

to Christianity, Muslims believe that Jesus will one day return and defeat a false prophet

before the day of Resurrection. But despite the many similarities, Christ is not considered

the Son of God, or God himself, as taught in Christian scripture.

Within Judaism, Jesus is acknowledged as influential, but rejected as the Messiah. In the Hebrew

Bible, the Messiah is supposed to bring all Jews back to their homeland, among other predictions

which Jesus did not fulfill.

In addition to being a key religious figure across multiple faiths, the influence of Christianity

and Jesus has shaped much of the modern world. The Dionysian common era calendar, which nearly

all Western cultures use, begins after the birth of Jesus. Thus, BC and AD refer to Before

Christ and Anno Domini, Latin for “in the year of our Lord”. Starting as a small Jewish

sect in the Middle East, Christianity spread to roughly 600 million adherents by the early

20th century, then to over 2 billion spread across every part of the world.

Jesus represents, by far, the largest religion on earth, which has influenced, arguably,

the entire course of Western civilization. For many, Jesus stands as a positive, moral

role model. So, just how powerful is Jesus? Well, regardless of your beliefs Jesus may

just be the most famous, and most significant person in recorded history.

As significant as Jesus is, there are actually differing opinions on what he actually looked like.

Was he blonde and blue-eyed, or swarthy and dark-haired? Find out in this video by DNews.

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