The Cross.
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
1 Corinthians 1:18.
Think about this. If God is made up like some Atheist believe. If Jesus is a myth why would people make up such a person as Jesus?
Jesus is a suffering Messiah. For Christians it is all about Christ going to the cross to die not for anything he did but for us.
Surely people who would create a myth would pick something like the Roman and Greek gods? Superheros of a sort with mortal flaws.
Christians did not do that. They worship a real God that is benevolent. A God that went the distance in human terms to show how much He loved mankind.
Christians see a God that lays before them a moral code a system of ethics that can be followed.
Christians see a God that is concerned about the individual and meets the individual where they are at.
He realizes that man cannot live a perfect life. That he is flawed and needs help to stop from falling short of the ideals He, God, has laid down in the Bible.
A God that understands that he could not possible judge Man if he didn’t understand what it was to be a man with all the temptations and trials mankind has to go through.
Thus God chose to take a small portion of his infiniteness and enter the world he created.
Jesus experienced everything there was to be a human being. From growing up in a small village to being rejected by the religious leaders of his day, to being put to death for a crime he didn’t commit.
If you think about it this is not something any story writer would ever dream of writing.
While the Atheist may say God does not exist and Jesus is a Myth it is far from true.
C.S. Lewis wrote,
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Think about it.
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