Humanity can't get Jesus out of their minds!

It is intriguing that humanity cannot get Jesus out of their minds and a testimony to this is the vast array of religions that seem to include Him regardless of the way they taint His true identity.

For example,

• Buddhists view Him as a great teacher/master,
• Hindus view Him as a guru,
• Muslims view Him as the sinless prophet and returning messiah - yet they all denounce His true identity as God incarnate.

In fact all religions & cults seem to do one or more of the following…

1. Strip the deity of Christ
2. Bring God down to our level
3. Lift us up to God’s level
4. Focus on self and not God
5. Negate God’s existence altogether
6. Dismiss our sinful nature

This factual and convenient atrocity that lets people define Jesus as they wish is captured by the wonderful Christian Theologian C.S. Lewis in the folling quote:

“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 patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” - C.S. Lewis

For me Jesus is "the Son of God". Amen!