In the Old Testament, the God revelation is discharged as a constant search for communication to humans. Hence, the discovery of God is perceived through many God’s creatures in nature. The idea of revelation is also an attempt to reveal the ‘mighty acts’ as a divine blessing for many people. This can be noticed in the following abstract of Psalm 104:24:
How many are your works, O Lord!
In wisdom you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
Like the Old Testament, the main role of the New Testament lies in the manifesting of God’s love for people and reason as the measure of faith. However, in the New Testament, the centre of revelation is Jesus Christ embodying the material and spiritual embodiment of God (Heywood 131).
The appearance of Christianity was predetermined by numerous changes in social, cultural, and religious life. The main historical event that triggered the rise of the religion was the cleavage of the Roman Empire. It also originated from Jewish communities so that the early Christianity is marked by the appearance of Jesus movement in the village of Nazareth. The cultural conditions of Jesus movement were brightly demonstrated in the gospels by Mathew and Luke. Finally, the rise of the religious also manifested the birth of foreign culture and religion (Irvin 22).
The above-mentioned gospels narrate about the moral teachings and miracles of God. All the four gospels of Mathew, Luke, Mark, and John perpetuated the deeds of God in the sacred book. In particular, the miracle stories of walking on the water and feeding four thousand people are brightly described in Mark and Matthew’s gospels:
He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to disciples to set before the people, and they did so. They had a few small fish as well; he gave thanks for them… (Mark 8:1 – 10 NIV).
Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd (Matthew 14:23-33 NIV).
The gospels also narrate the life and sayings of Jesus of Nazareth. The first three gospel by Mark, Luke, and Matthew are accounted similarly whereas the fourth gospel narrated by John is a religious and theoretical work that differs considerably from the others. Apart from this, the gospels recollect the heeling of the blind and the lame in the churches by Jesus: “And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them” (Matthew 21:14KJV); Jesus choosing twelve Apostles: “And to have power to heal sickness, and to cast out devils” (Mark 3:15 KJV); sending the twelve on Mission: “Then he called twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over the devils, and to cure diseases” (Luke 9:1-2,6 KJV;); people healing by the sea of Galilee: “For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues” (Mark 3:10-12 KJV).
The appearance of Eastern Christianity should be regarded as a historical religion, as the historical scriptures of the Old Testaments prove it as well as the events of life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth described in the New Testament. In other words, there observe a veritable connection of these two written evidences where one is based on another.
Works Cited
Heywood, David. Divine revelation and human learning: a Christian theory of knowledge. US: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004.
Irvin, Dale T., and Suquist, Scott. History of the World Christian Movement: Volume 1: Earliest Christianity to 1453. US: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001.