Is Jesus a Prophet to spread the word, or God in Flesh? What are your beliefs?
With of course, a good dose of deism somewhere in the mix?
Any Rosicrucians in the crowd?
With of course, a good dose of deism somewhere in the mix?
"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 patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
Why can't he be both?
Just for the sake of discussion....when we read the canonical gospels we find Jesus reportedly referring to himself over and over again as the Son of Man....and provides evidence in some of his first miracles in the Gospel of Mark that it is the Son of Man who has power to forgive the sins of our world.
Maybe a better question is are we truly paying attention to the lessons of the Son of Man and trying to live those in our lives, or have we subscribed to a dogma that he, the Son of Man, never desired in the first place.
Maybe a better question is are we truly paying attention to the lessons of the Son of Man and trying to live those in our lives, or have we subscribed to a dogma that he, the Son of Man, never desired in the first place.
Definition of FUNDAMENTALISM
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a often capitalized : a movement in 20th century Protestantism emphasizing the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teachingb : the beliefs of this movementc : adherence to such beliefs
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: a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles <Islamicfundamentalism> <political fundamentalism>