Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 44
44 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction The other option is that we presume it was Jesus as the ‘Son’ who cried out, while the man in him, perhaps hopeful to begin a new life for himself, watched on in the uncertain expectation that along with the sacrifice of Jesus as the ‘Son’, he, Jesus as the man, whether he liked it or not, would also be slaughtered on the altar of his innocent cohabiter. What sense of justice ever motivated God to kill two birds with the same stone is perhaps another mystery. If it was Jesus as the ‘Son’, and it was him indeed according to the general consensus of Christian churches, then the second question arising out of the answer of the first would be about the identity of the second party involved in that monologue of Jesus as (Matt 26:39,42). We have two options open to us: One, that the ‘Son’ was addressing the Father, complaining that he was abandoned in the hour of need. This inescapably leads us to believe that they were two different persons who did not coexist in a single mutually merged personality, equally sharing all attributes and putting them into play simultaneously with equal share. One appears to be the supreme arbiter, the all powerful possessor of the ultimate faculty of taking decisions. The other, the poor ‘Son,’ seems to be entirely deprived or maybe temporar- ily dispossessed of all the domineering characters which his Father enjoys. The central point which must be kept in focus is the fact that their opposite wills and wishes nowhere seem more at odds and at variance with each other than they do during the last act of the Crucifixion drama. The second question is, would these two distinct persons, with individual thoughts, individual values and individual capacities,