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How much good work did Jesus do in comparison to the last year of all of Christianity?
Heaven, Hell, and salvation are off the table. That's all highly controversial "is it real or is it not" stuff.
I'm just talking about the acts he did on Earth. The number of lives he saved, the number of people he educated.
Even if he's real, there's only so much a man can do in the scant 33 years or whatever it was he lived.
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- Anonymous6 years ago
Jesus taught a lot of people but it wasn't the number of people he touched, it was the quality of people, like Peter, Timothy, and Paul that was really important.
He set in motion a cascading effect which he explained and demonstrated to the woman at the well (John 4:1-42).
Today's Christians feed the hungry, clothe the poor, outreach programs to third world countries allow us to help improve the lives of others. Last year the United Methodist Church has been raising money to fight malaria and provide mosquito protection to people in countries where malaria is a deadly killer. Mosquitoes kill nearly 800,000 people a year in Africa.
For comparison, lightning strikes kill less than 40 people a year and sharks kill around 10 people a year.
That's just one program that Christianity has been working on in the past year.
- ?Lv 76 years ago
Rumor has it that Jesus was THERE and AWARE on the Day of Creation when all the germs were created.
And by the time Jesus was born, humanity had the capability to make and polish glass.
The OLD Testicle has several paragraphs about how to do the interior furnishings of the area where the Ark of the Covenant was to be displayed.
But there is not ONE paragraph in the teachings of Jesus, not one "inspired" line in the writings of the Epistles, telling people to polish up some lenses and LOOK for the causes of disease.
Jesus and whatever inspired the Epistles seem perfectly happy to allow millions of people to die of preventable diseases, to allow them to wallow in ignorance, believing that diseases are caused by rampaging demons or by an angry Yahweh.
Best NOT to try convince people that Jesus saved ANY lives, since the withholding of some simple instructions resulted in the deaths of so many millions.
Better to claim that Jesus was a person, about whom LEGENDS of amazing events arose, and grew, years after his death.
For example, the Legend of the Strolling Zombies in Matthew 27 are not mentioned in ANY of the other Gospels. Ever wonder how nobody else bothered to NOTICE dozens or hundreds of strolling zombies????
Source(s): MATT 27:52-54(KJV) "And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. - Sheltie LoverLv 76 years ago
He was 33 1/2 when he died. He apparently did much much more than what is recorded in the scriptures.
◄ John 21:25 ►
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"Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written."
Quite impressive, don't you think? ... and his work is still being carried on. www.jw.org
- ?Lv 66 years ago
Man's greatest need is to know that his eternity is secure. When Jesus paid our sin debt on the cross the plan of Salvation was complete for all mankind from that day forward but it has to be accepted by repentance of sin and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. No man has ever given so much to so many that can't be had any other way. Keep in mind that Jesus was both God and man. God bless.
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- JLv 76 years ago
Lol, if you cross the Biblical testimonies about Jesus off the list, then you have no other source to get the answer to the question you're asking from.
The most complete record of Jesus' life, and His deeds is the Bible.
Either accept that, or join the club of factless conspiracy theorists who think He never existed.
- A Second WitnessLv 76 years ago
Jesus said it himself:
"Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father." - John 14:12 (NIV)
- yeahsureLv 46 years ago
That is a non sequitur.
Christians are those who are in Christ Jesus. So all good works of all Christians of all times are cumulative in Jesus Christ. You cannot separate Christians from Christ.
- jojojubiLv 66 years ago
Jesus predicted that we would do even more than he did:
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.
Source(s): John 14:12 - numlockLv 76 years ago
jesus is a fictional character in a collection of ancient fairy tales.........