Jesus...

Jesus was a Jew who lived in Palestine during the Roman occupation in the first part of the first century. The significance of his life and death has been interpreted in a variety of ways over the intervening 2000 years. One type of interpretation has been that the clarity with which he ordered his own life on the principle of love without limit means that he is both a light that shines into our own lives and is also the reality of God. Another type of interpretation says that his death and resurrection is the process by which evil is removed, both from the universe as well as from individual people.

For a more liberal interpretation see http://www.tcpc.org/about/8points.cfm

For a more conservative interpretation see:
http://christianity.about.com/od/christiandoctrines/a/basicdoctrines.htm

written by Harold Munn