One doesn't have to be religious to be spiritual. One can believe in a higher being without being labeled Hindu, Catholic, Protestant, ect. However many religions are based on higher causes, not higher beings. Most worship a dead prophet or gods of misfortune. However, Christianity believes in a living god whom has walked this earth. However, many people do not realize how human Jesus actually was. Most see him as just a heavenly manifestation in a human shell. However if Jesus was to truly understand the joys and pains of life he must be fully human. For one to understand Jesus, he must understand the man he became.
His story begins with his birth in Bethlehem. Jesus was born as any other baby is born from a human mother, although the bible traces his decent up to Joseph, to whom Mary was engaged. It is widely thought that Jesus was born not later than 4 B.C., the year of King Herod's death. When he was born, first breath smelled of a stable and his first bed was an animal feeding trough. Being completely dependent
on his mother for warmth and protection, Jesus was as helpless as any newborn baby. Just after his birth shepherds from a nearby field were Jesus's first visitors and after a visit from some Star Gazers he was hurriedly taken away to Egypt for his own safety. Later, in safer times, Jesus returned to Israel where he would have grown into a man learning his fathers trade of carpentry. Jesus had an ordinary until he was about thirty. He bean to feel God leading him to the desert and it was there that he began his work.
In the desert Jesus faced great temptation. He spent forty days in the desert without food, trying to figure out what he was going to do. The devil suggested ways he could make his life a lot easier. If Jesus was ...