Book Title: Glimpses Of World Religions
Author(s): Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Navbharat Sahitya Mandir

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________________ The Christian Religion ligion 99 service of the people, education and health, this religion has made humanity greatly indebted to it. Jesus Christ – the founder of Christianity Two attributes “The Son of Man" and "The Son of God” are applied to Jesus. The meaning, broadly speaking, of these two words is : one who worships God through the service of humanity. In the year 4 B.C. in the village named Bethleham, on 25th December, the God of Christian religion Jesus Christ was born. The father of Jesus, whose name was Yusuf, was an ordinary carpenter. Christ Jesus is born of a virgin Marium. At that time, it was a popular belief that a child born to an unmarried girl is a God-gift. A king named Herad ruled over Jerusalem which was the capital of Syria Province. He was having tremendous powers. He came to know that some enemy of his is born; so he ordered that all children above the age of 2 years, should be shot dead. All people were terribly sad to hear this. But the king did make all the children to be killed. To save Jesus, his parents ran away. When Jesus was 12 years old, he visited one celebration at Jerusalem along with his parents. On the way, near one church, he was separated from the parents. They, the parents, went on searching for him. At last, when they made inquiries in the church, Jesus was found to be having some discussions with the priest on some serious subject. When such question as "What is God? Where does he stay? What is he doing ?” etc. were used to puzzle the peoples' minds very much, Jesus, like a philosopher, could answer them. He was critical of, and opposed superstitions and hypocricy. In the times of Jesus, injustice and stark mis-rule prevailed in the name of the king. No one had the courage to express

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