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Daniel Varela
REL 331
Professor Rose
April 1, 2021
The Gospel of Luke

This Third Gospel of Luke, written by Paul, addresses the accounts of Jesus as a child;

Jesus and his parents are obedient to the Jewish law, such as the presentation in (Luke, 2:22-23),

which is the custom of the Jewish law of the purification of a child to God. The support of this

ritual is that it follows along when Mary and Joseph discover the child Jesus in the temple,

"After three days they found him in the temple, sitting amid the teachers, listening to them and

asking them questions" (Luke 2:46) which is the last story of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Mary

addresses Jesus to the point, but this is only to accommodate a counterclaim for Christ's response

to his mother. Similar determinations take fold in Luke’s Gospel, such as the moment in which

Jesus is told while teaching the crowds, "your mother and your brothers are standing outside and

wish to meet, which shifts another display for Christ response " My mother and my brothers are

those who hear the word of God and do it" (Luke 8:20-21). In the account of the finding of Jesus

in the temple after Mary approaches Jesus, he bolts up for the response "why did you look for me

everywhere, did you not know that I had to be in my father's house" (Luke 2:49). We discern

here in the parable of the child Jesus's finding in the temple that the people and the church are

searching for Christ, and Christ tells us where he is to be found. For Mary and Joseph, they only

find Jesus in the temple simply teaching and asking questions of the elders' faith. To this day, in

many churches, we continue to preach, ask questions and ponder the mystery of Christ; however,

for us as Christians and followers of Christ, we are defined primarily as Christ-followers when
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we find him in his "house" or the church, while the mission at task is to preach the laws of Jesus.

Countless people we see continue to search for Christ, and they find him usually in his "house."

So following along with the story of the presentation of Jesus as a newborn, Mary and Joseph

travel toward the temple to fulfill the law in the story, the finding of Jesus in the temple for those

who are looking for Christ in the church, and overall to continue the same task as Jesus for the

whole world and its sanctification.

The methods I approached with the distinct parable and proverb of the child Jesus in

Luke's gospel were social science and theological method due to the source critique that he

conveys around the old testament's Jewish customs, which were justified acts to Jesus. Gospel of

Luke utilizes these parables in defense cases regarding God, which is known as a genre called

theodicy since the son of God is performing in time and fulfill for the salvation of the world. I

used these forms of analysis on Luke because it helps gain a deeper insight into Christ, telling us

where to go and what to do. This shrewdness is nevertheless actively necessary now because we

notice numerous constraints upon Christianity and Christ, and several Philosophers, for example,

Immanuel Kant's, Niccolò Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Richard Dawkin, adds to the

stresses for most people about the view of Christ as being moral or immoral which influences

diplomacies, institutions, and business, which may direct others to deviate the faith aside. This

amount of source criticism I approached, as before mentioned, indeed brings out the social

science of church and state, like in the time of Jesus. Thus, discipline and obedience to the lords

will must be practiced in different degrees and different ways. It is easy to obey if what the Lord

wants is what we want. Nevertheless, when the Lord calls us to act differently, which entails to

what Jesus did to convert those who have not heard, it beckons for one to have humility and

conversion.
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