While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

The Cappadocian Fathers asserted that God's nature is unknowable to man ; helped to develop the framework of hypostases, or three persons united in a single Godhead ; illustrated how Jesus is the eikon of the Father ; and explained the concept of theosis, the belief that all Christians can be assimilated with God in " imitation of the incarnate Son as the divine model.

Paul explained the importance of the resurrection of Jesus as the cause and basis of the hope of Christians to share a similar experience in 1 Corinthians 15: 20-22.

In this last example, the disciples thought that the reason Jesus said it was because they had brought no bread ; but Jesus explained that he was referring to the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

The origin of the badnjak is explained by events surrounding the Nativity of Jesus Christ.

However, when Jesus explained that his flesh was " real food " and his blood was " real drink ", many disciples left him ( John 6: 44-6: 66 ), presumably including Mark.

Agrippa would resent a movement begun during his absence from Judæa when explained to him by the religious leaders of Israel as a sacrilegious mission trying to equate a mere man, Jesus of Nazareth, with the One God of Judaism.

Dionysius copied the last decennovenal cycle of the Cyrillian table ending with Diocletian 247, and then added a new 95-year table with numbered Anni Domini Nostri Jesu Christi ( Years of our Lord Jesus Christ ) because, as he explained to Petronius, he did not wish to continue the memory of a tyrant who persecuted Christians.

Pilate agrees to condemn Jesus to crucifixion, after the Jewish leaders explained to him that Jesus presented a threat to Roman occupation through his claim to the throne of King David as King of Israel in the royal line of David.

Their methodology, which was developed by a team of scholars ( who expounded papers for the review of other Fellows and published many in Forum ) and is explained in The Five Gospels ( the four canonical gospels plus the Gospel of Thomas ), involves canvassing the records of the first four centuries for traditions about Jesus and sifting them by criteria such as multiple attestation, distinctiveness, and orality.

Most scholars agree that the English word Maundy in that name for the day is derived through Middle English and Old French mandé, from the Latin mandatum, the first word of the phrase " Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos " (" A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another ; as I have loved you "), the statement by Jesus in the Gospel of by which Jesus explained to the Apostles the significance of his action of washing their feet.

Maimonides, one of Judaism's most important theologians and legal experts, explained in detail why Jesus was wrong to create Christianity and why Muhammad was wrong to create Islam ; he laments the pains Jews have suffered in persecution from followers of these new faiths as they attempted to supplant Judaism ( in the case of Christianity, called Supersessionism ).

Paul had great love for Christ but was it is explained how the strained and partly broken relationship with the disciples who walked with Jesus, and the ingrained thoughts of sacrificial law working while he tried to figure out Jesus ' death, as well as Satan " at his side " to distort and deceive were all parts of the forming of what has come to be believed as the basis for salvation.

Noted teacher and preacher, he explained Catholic dogma of the Council of Chalcedon ( which focused on the nature of Jesus as both God and human ), wrote a series of letters to the faithful against Monophysitism and Monothelitism, and then travelled Syria to explain the heresy.

Instead he explained in his theological writings how the Divine Trinity exists in One Person, in One God, the Lord Jesus Christ, which he said is taught in Colossians 2: 9.

She explained in an interview that Jesus tops her hero list and the last book she read was the Bible.

Paul explained the importance of the resurrection of Jesus as the cause and basis of the hope of Christians to share a similar experience in:

This catastrophic population depletion may have also led to Christian conversion ( amongst other factors ) because the European priests who had not suffered from the pandemics explained that the Indians had died because they did not believe in Jesus Christ.

The Church of Jesus Christ views the nature of God as explained in the Bible and Book of Mormon, which The Church of Jesus Christ claims differs from the views on the nature of God taught by the LDS Church.

Jesus answered and said to him ( Nicodemus ) `` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God ''.

Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus, a Pharisee described as " a ruler of the Jews ", who says that, because of his miracles, Jesus is known " to be a teacher come from God ".

In the chapter, Nicodemus is puzzled and asks Jesus what he means by saying that " Ye must be born again ".

* Baptism – referred to in Jesus ' born-again discourse with Nicodemus (" born of water and spirit ")

* Holy Spirit – referred to in Jesus ' born-again discourse with Nicodemus (" born of water and spirit ")

Some, such as Nicodemus, even go so far as to be at least partially sympathetic to Jesus.

mentions no other witness to Joseph's burial of Jesus except for Joseph's assistant Nicodemus.

Egyptologist Erik Hornung observes that Egyptian Christians continued to mummify corpses ( an integral part of the Osirian beliefs ) until it finally came to an end with the arrival of Islam, and argues for an association between the passion of Jesus and Osirian traditions, particularly in the apocryphal gospel of Nicodemus and Christ's descent into Hades.

According to the Gospel of Nicodemus, Joseph testified to the Jewish elders, and specifically to chief priests Caiaphas and Annas that Jesus had risen from the dead and ascended to heaven and he indicated that others were raised from the dead at the resurrection of Christ ( repeating Matt 27: 52 – 53 ).

Another secret follower of Jesus and member of the Sanhedrin named Nicodemus brought about a hundred pound weight mixture of spices and helped wrap the body of Christ ().

Outside of Jewish history and writings, the Pharisees have been made notable by references in the New Testament to conflicts between themselves and John the Baptist and with Jesus, and because Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, both members of the sect, buried Jesus ' body at great personal risk.

Jesus discussed his destiny with a Jewish teacher named Nicodemus by referencing a passage in Chukat of the Torah.

The account of () tells of the intervention of influential followers of Jesus, such as Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, who take Jesus ' body down from the cross and lay him in a tomb.

Nicodemus ( left ) talking to Jesus, by Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov | Alexander Ivanov, 1850.

Saint Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin, who, according to the Gospel of John, showed favour to Jesus.

Jesus and Nicodemus, Crijn Hendricksz, 1616 – 1645.

Nicodemus was portrayed by Laurence Olivier in the Franco Zeffirelli television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ).

In the miniseries, Nicodemus tries to warn Jesus that he might be arrested, and is there to watch the Crucifixion.

In the Biblical, historical fiction, " Nicodemus " by Keith Ballard Farris, the life of Jesus is told from the point of view of Nicodemus.

betrayal of Jesus by Judas ; Peter denying Christ and repenting of it ; the judgment of Jesus by Pilate (“ Ecce Homo ”); the Johannine Passion Narrative ( John 18-19 ; including the Agony in the Garden ); the Carrying of the Cross ; the Crucifixion of Christ ( Laurence Olivier's Nicodemus recites the “ Suffering Servant ” passage 53: 3-5 as he looks helplessly on the crucified Messiah ); the discovery of the empty tomb ; and an appearance of the Risen Christ to his Disciples.

We have not the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying that, while he believed Jesus `` like other religious teachers '', worked miracles, `` I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine ''.

* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints also rejects Trinitarian doctrine, although other churches that are part of the Latter-Day Saint movement still adhere to the Nicene Creed.

* 1852 – At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam – God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.

After the Christian couple Priscilla and Aquila corrected his incomplete Christian doctrine, his special gifts in preaching Jesus persuasively made him an important person in the congregation at Corinth, Greece after Paul's first visit there.

Adoptionism was declared heresy at the end of the 2nd century and was rejected by the First Council of Nicaea, which defined the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity and identified the man Jesus with the eternally begotten Son or Word of God.

Adoptionism ( also known as dynamic monarchianism ) denies the eternal pre-existence of Christ, and although it explicitly affirms his deity subsequent to events in his life, many classical trinitarians claim that the doctrine implicitly denies it by denying the constant hypostatic union of the eternal Logos to the human nature of Jesus.

A rival to the more common belief that Jesus Christ had two natures was monophysitism (" one nature "), the doctrine that Christ had only one nature.

Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

Among Christian beliefs, the death and resurrection of Jesus are two core events on which much of Christian doctrine and theology is based.

According to both Catholic and Protestant doctrine, salvation comes by Jesus ' substitutionary death and resurrection.

Many Christians have believed that Jesus ' doctrine of peace speaks only to personal ethics and is distinct from civil government's duty to punish crime.

LDS theology includes the Christian doctrine of salvation only through Jesus Christ, though LDS doctrines regarding the nature of God and the potential of mankind differ significantly from mainstream Christianity.

Under the doctrine of continuing revelation, Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus Christ, under the direction of Heavenly Father, leads the church by revealing His will to its president, whom adherents regard as a modern-day " prophet, seer, and revelator ".

Eschatology is an ancient branch of study in Christian theology, presumably starting with the Olivet discourse, The Sheep and the Goats, and other discourses of end times by Jesus, with the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ first touched on by Paul of Tarsus and Ignatius of Antioch ( c. 35 – 107 AD ), then given more consideration by the Christian apologist, Justin Martyr ( c. 100 – 165 ).

This statement reflects Mrs. Eddy's doctrine regarding the uniqueness, unity, and individuality of Christ Jesus ' eternal, spiritual identity.

St. Paul in Romans and I Corinthians placed special emphasis on this doctrine, and stressed that belief in Jesus would allow Christians to overcome death and attain salvation in the hereafter.

Zoé Oldenbourg ( 2000 ) compared the Cathars to " Western Buddhists " because she considered that their view of the doctrine of " resurrection " taught by Jesus was, in fact, similar to the Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation.

In Christian terminology, docetism ( from the Greek dokein ( to seem ) / dókēsis ( apparition, phantom ), according to Norbert Brox, is defined narrowly as " the doctrine according to which the phenomenon of Christ, his historical and bodily existence, and thus above all the human form of Jesus, was altogether mere semblance without any true reality.

The doctrine of papal infallibility was not new and had been used by Pope Pius in defining as dogma, in 1854, the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

A rival to the more common belief that Jesus Christ had two natures was monophysitism (" one nature "), the doctrine that Christ had only one nature.

The Gospel also takes a strongly anti-Pauline tone at times, saying in the Italian version's beginning: " many, being deceived of Satan, under pretence of piety, are preaching most impious doctrine, calling Jesus son of God, repudiating the circumcision ordained of God for ever, and permitting every unclean meat: among whom also Paul has been deceived.

If you look at icons of Jesus and Mary: Jesus wears red undergarment with a blue outer garment ( God become Human ) and Mary wears a blue undergarment with a red overgarment ( human was granted gifts by God ), thus the doctrine of deification is conveyed by icons.