The Christian religion is based on the New Testament and believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Messiah. Before Jesus was sent down from heaven and born on earth, the religion of the Christians was Judaism. How can this be? Two different religions with the base in the Old Testament or the Torah but yet still with different beliefs and traditions. Who is right? The Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, or is the Jewish religion right in believing the messiah has not come yet. How did that happen? The splitting of a religion formed these two separate views.
             The gospel of Mathew explains a lot about Jesus' life, and many of his teachings. Jesus was conceived during a dream by Joseph and the virgin Mother Mary. Spirits had come to them in their sleep and explained to them what was going to happen and what they were to do. Both Joseph and Mary did everything that the spirits had told them to do. The birth of Jesus created a lot of commotion from people all over the world. King Herod had gotten news of the newborn king of Jews by astrologers from the East; he called together a meeting of all the chief priests and scribes of the Jews. Herod wanted to get rid of this new child because he was scared. He had even ordered the death of all male children age 2 and under. The spirits had been aware of this and had Joseph and Mary move away. Jesus had grown up by now and Herod was dead, before they moved back. John the Baptist had claimed that baptism would clear your soul and your path to eternal life in heaven. He had shunned the Pharisees and Sadducees that had come to be baptized. Upon Jesus' return he had stopped to be baptized by John and during the baptism the gates to heaven had been opened and God had spoken and said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I take delight." (Mathew 3:17)
             Throughout the rest of Jesus' life he teaches a new way of living, a new way of pr...