I don’t know if Jesus exists or whether the stories about him are true. Even so, I like talking about Jesus because I strongly agree with some of what he said. Also because I see awesome role-modeling of how to be a great human being in many of the stories about him. I hope conversations about these things will lead people to change their behavior, becoming better human beings who make the world a better place. I think of people who embrace such change as “people of the Way’. I enjoyed your story about you and your friend forgiving each other, as a step along the Way.
I would love to talk about Jesus like he is a real human being, in a free, unconstrained manner. My experience of Christian conversations about Jesus is that Christians keep him in a glass case, locked with a gold key. People who share the “correct’ Christian beliefs get their own key. People who don’t are relegated to asking questions which Christians answer. Handling Jesus is a privilege reserved for “right-belief’ Christians. Read the rest of this entry »
07-15-2007 |
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