I get asked a lot, why Jesus? Why the "Christian God?" Out of the many "gods" out there on planet Earth being worshiped by millions, why did I choose Jesus?
The question is one that we all should ask ourselves. Why Jesus? What makes Him so special? This question will aid our journey of faith.
Apart from the academic aspect of why I chose Jesus, there is a deeper reason. Out of all the gods described to us by different cultures, Jesus stood out to me the most because He was one of us. ( Hebrews 4:15) Jesus is the only deity to incarnate Himself as one of us - a simple human being. He had flesh and bones just like us. He had veins that carried blood with nutrients and oxygen just like us. He learned the alphabet and numerical system just like us. He ate and drank, did all the functions of a human being just like us. He also had to learn how to live in society just like us. The only difference is that He did not sin.
This God named Jesus emptied Himself of the majesty of being the God of gods - the Supreme creator to become a tiny baby, grow, learn and suffer Rome's capital punishment - crucifixion.
The events of Jesus' life touched me deeply. Jesus is a God who does not command us to worship out of fear, but rather, He invites us to love God with our whole being. This God, in a sense treats us as if we were God. All other gods which are man's attempt to define the one God all demand sacrifice, blood and blind obedience. Jesus does the opposite. He is the sacrifice, He sheds His blood, and He was obedient by accepting the plan the Father had for Him.
Some try to pass off Jesus as a "borrowed myth." Like Thomas Paine, they try to impose "heathen mythology" on Jesus as if Jesus was some sort of a mythological invention. We who are in academia know this is not so. Even atheist historian and scholar, Michael Grant had this to say of Jesus Christ:
To sum up, modern critical methods fail to support the Christ myth theory. It has 'again and again been answered and annihilated by first rank scholars.' In recent years, 'no serous scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.
Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels
This speaks volumes coming from an atheist because it is usually the atheists who claim that Jesus is a mythological being that never existed.
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