Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 1
chapter one the sonship of jesus christ The ‘Father-Son’ relationship between God and Jesus Christ as is central to Christianity. Let us first try to understand the meaning of being a literal son. When we concentrate on the meaning of being a literal son to a literal father, things begin to appear which force us to revise our opinion of ‘sonship’ of Jesus as. What is a son? During the period when science had not yet developed and discovered how a child is born, this question could only be vaguely answered. Ancient people thought it quite possible for God to have a son through human birth. This was a belief preva- lent in almost all pagan societies in different parts of the world. Greek mythology abounds with such tales and Hindu mythology does not lag far behind either. For the so-called gods to have sons and daughters, as many as they pleased, was in fact never seriously challenged by human reason. But now science has developed to a stage where the process of human birth has been described in greater detail than ever before. This issue has become very com- plicated and those who still believe that literal sons and daughters can be born to God have very serious problems to resolve and some very difficult questions to answer.