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Who Was Jesus Anyway?
-From alt.religion.christian-teen
April 1999
Jesus
of Nazareth was the poor illegitimate son of a carpenter and a peasant
who hung around with all the dregs of society and finally ended up as a
"victim" of Roman justice. He was terminally unemployed, given to
feasting and drinking, lived off of the kindness of others (a
panhandler?) and constantly had run ins with the authorities. He was
born amongst livestock laid in a feeding trough and illegally
immigrated to a foreign land as a toddler. Some of his closest friends
betrayed him either out of self preservation or for cold hard cash.
Post By: Theophilos
Yep. That was Jesus. Give or take a few
lines. But overall, you've got it. No Christian is going
to deny that. It was part of the plan. The Almighty
Creator came to earth as part of the creation. He became
the common man to lead the common people on the path of
salvation. Jesus
was a human, He would feel pain, sorrow, weakness,
stress, and all other human emotions. God came to us as a
mortal man to deliver mortal men. That's where
Christianity is different from other religions. We don't
worship a prophet, or a dead God. We worship a living God
who loved us enough to come personally, in a form that we
could understand and that we could relate to, to bring us
to Him. Other religions have a God that is high and
distant and that man has to reach out for. Christianity
is God reaching down to man to show Him the way. He knew
we could never make it on our own, so He became one of
us.
Post By: B. Thomas Clark
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