Dax nodded. “Yeah, He probably existed, but I think it’s more about experiencing the Christ consciousness than revering the Man Himself.”
Elenore smiled at them. “You’re both right. Personally, I pray to Him and lots of other great men and women of the past. It doesn’t really matter who people thought He was then, He’s the essence of whatever we want Him to be now.”
This narcissistic brilliance comes to us courtesy of 21st-century spiritualists who wouldn't know the real Jesus if He gave them an autographed photo. But it’s easier to invent a “Jesus” than bow to the real one. So, was Elenore right? Does it matter who Jesus is, or is His existence defined by personal preference?
C.S. Lewis answered that in his classic work Mere Christianity: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
Final Thought: Who do you say Jesus is?
“He was shown to be the Son of God when he was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 1:4
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