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Who is this Yeshua of Nazareet guy?

Does Jesus really have an office in the WhiteHouse? And is his kingdom built as the USA secures her economic interests around the world? 

 

Or is Jesus a forceful Liberator of the People who builds his kingdom on earth by smashing the aristocratic class and giving ownership of industry to the proletariat?  Or was he the Prince of Peace who builds his kingdom on earth when men of all nations beat their swords into plows?

                     

Is Jesus a stern, no-nonsense, powerful, divine Pancrator King who rules all things on earth from a heavenly throne?  Is he our lifelong buddy who knocks on our heart's door waiting for our invitation to invite him into our lives? 

           

Lotus Jesus.  Was Jesus one of the Ascended Master Gurus of history--Steeped in the mysteries of Karnac-Egypt, Babylon, Persian Magii, and/or Indian Mystics?   Or is he just "fly?"

            

 

Was Jesus an African Jew?  Is he Castillian?

      

Is Jesus' main job these days to feed his own blood and flesh to his communicants?

 

 

 

Rethink catalyst tidbits. . .

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?"  They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets."  "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."  (Matthew 16)

 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.  (Matthew 24)

For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. (2 Cor. 11)

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. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God. (C.S. Lewis)

Anticipated rethinks in this section are:

• Is Jesus Just another one of those Dying-Rising Archetypal Vegetation Gods?
• Rethinking the claims of deity/divinity ascribed to Jesus of Nazareth.
• A plug for J. Dwight Pentecost's books The Words and Works of Jesus Christ

 

Here are some audio/video files from http://www.internationallegacy.org/ which set the stage for these rethinks:

Christ's Deity by Dr. Norman Geisler
Christ's Second Coming by Dr. Norman Geisler
Essentials of the Faith by Dr. Norman Geisler
Triunity of God by Dr. Norman Geisler
The Virgin Birth by Dr. Norman Geisler
What is the Bible about by Dr. Norman Geisler

Ascension of Jesus by Dr. Norman Geisler
Pillars of the Faith by Dr. Norman Geisler
Ques/Ans from SES Students Part 1 by Dr. Gary Habermas
Ques/Ans from SES Students Part 2 by Dr. Gary Habermas