But Jesus did not say you have to be illogical or inhumane to be a person of faith.
In 2003, Britain's patent office rejected its application as "morally offensive to the public, " but Jesus Jeans registered "Jesus" through the European Union as a "Community Trademark, " valid across the European Union.
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Ruth becomes an ancestor not only of David, but of Jesus.
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But this Jesus that we talk about in the Bible changed the world from what it had been to at least a world where we have hope now for something better.
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For Christians, we may celebrate the same Jesus, but how we do so and with whom is very different.
If Pope Francis loves justice and hates iniquity, he may indeed find himself an exile in this world but then so did Jesus himself.
And not because we care so much about Jesus, but because we were desperately seeking some avenue of relief, some way of venting our collective rage at our desperate straits.
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This pope comes from the Society of Jesus, but his mission is to restore the church into what it once was and could be again: a mission to spread the word of Jesus in society.
It is ironic that the Sistine Madonna's most famous aspect is not its emotionally complex portrait of Mary and Jesus, but rather the cherubs propping themselves up on an altar at the base of the composition.
In his homily, Francis said Christian joy "isn't born from possessing a lot of things but from having met" Jesus.
But he said the ultimate test of Christianity was not whether it was beneficial to the human race, but whether the resurrection of Jesus Christ actually happened.
The Koran states that Jesus was born miraculously of the Virgin Mary, but the Koran states that none of the prophets were divine, including Jesus.
In "Jesus or a Gun, " for example, Scallions sings: But now everything's trying to drag me down, but I'll rip the sky from the ground, but tell me now, who's my saving one, Jesus or a gun.
There is Thomas's gospel, short and sharp, which claims to record Jesus's sayings, but has no narration.
Many parents and ministers harshly objected to Norman's use of the "devil's music, " but the children of the '70s Jesus Movement found in him a radical hero.
Rawan still had to apply for and win the place against fierce competition, but she knows the other students at Jesus have given her a rare opportunity.
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Palm Sunday recalls Jesus' entry into Jerusalem but its Gospel also recounts how he was betrayed by one of his apostles and ultimately sentenced to death on a cross.
He looks up as Jesus, his face illuminated but his body otherwise in shadow, extends his right arm in an action deliberately evoking God's to Adam on the Sistine Ceiling.
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It's an awkward gesture (except for a left-handed person) but is justified aesthetically because it extends from Jesus's dexterous command.
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There is also no evidence that Jesus rose from the dead, but nearly every Christian except for maybe Unitarians would question that as part of the faith.
Certainly, Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it?
Former Aston Villa defender Olof Mellberg rose to meet Jesus Datolo's free-kick but planted his header wide of the post.
He altered its wording in 2008, but it still calls for Jews to "recognise Jesus Christ, the Saviour of all men", a more explicit demand than was included in John Paul II's revised wording.
Three women but only one man had the courage to go with Jesus to his execution.
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