Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Right, Deny His Divinity And Then He'll Be Relevant...Why? And For Whom?

Secularise Jesus' story and watch his relevance grow

Take the Christ out of Jesus to make non-believers, well, not believe but at least have better feelings towards that which they can't believe.  I really can't make any sense out of this article's logic.

I had a [temporary] parishioner in another, and rather unfortunate, parish once upon a time furious about at the common Christian teaching that Jesus surrendered mortal existence on behalf of our sins.  "I didn't ask him to die for me", she exclaimed at a Bible study. 

"That's the whole point.  He did it anyway", I replied.  Jesus is divine whether we want him to be or not; whether we can accept it or not.