GOD ON EARTH!

QUESTION?

IMAGINE, WHAT IF GOD BECAME A MAN AND CAME TO EARTH!

ANSWER!

Fr Barron says that the secular humanist have created a modern problem that he calls “domesticating Jesus”… “I see this happening a lot both in high academic culture and the wider culture too—and that is turning Jesus into one more guru,” along with “sufi mystics, Hindu wisemen, Jewish rabbis or Deepak Chopra. People look around to the spiritual world and then Jesus becomes one more of those figures and I just think that's the way to miss him. The Gospel presents him as this deeply challenging figure. Jesus is distinctive. He stands out in a sharp profile vis a vis other religious founders and I think Christians have to make that difference clear.”

The Uniqueness of Christ: (1) He was pre-announced. Nobody has ever been pre-announced, everybody else is just born into the world without notice and without being foretold or predicted. (2) No founder of any major religion is essential to that religion. Buddha is not essential to Buddhist, Confucius is not essential to Confucius, Abraham is not essential to Jews, Mohammed is not essential to Muslims like Christ is to Christianity because no religion requires a personal intimate relationship with their founder. Christianity does, this is essential. (3) Of all the religious founders only Christ performed miracles. Performing miracles attests and authenticates the message. (4) The founder of a religion cannot teach anything that is against human reason. E.g. he can’t teach immorality or error such as ‘man has no soul.’ The mysteries a religious founder teaches can be above our reason but not contrary to human reason.