Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 46
46 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction the progeny of Adam and Eve. At best one can bring oneself to believe that in the duality of the ‘Divine Son’ and the man occupying the same body, it was only the ‘Divine Son’ who was innocent. But what about the man living alongside him? Was he also born out of genes and character provided by God? If so, then he should behave like the divine in Jesus as and no excuse would be acceptable if he went remiss in this or that, with the plea that he only did so because he was a man. If there was nothing of God in him, that is, in the man in Jesus as , then we must concede that he was simply an ordinary human being, perhaps half a human being. Yet that human person, amalgamated with Jesus as , has to be human enough to inherit the disposition to sin. If not, why not? Obviously there is no gain in saying that being a man distinctly separate from his divine partner, he must have sinned independ- ently with the entire responsibility of sin upon his human shoul- ders. This scenario will not be complete without presenting Jesus as the ‘Son of God’ dying, not so unselfishly after all, for the sake of humanity, but his prime concern might have been for his half brother, the man in him. All this is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to digest intel- lectually. But our point of view presents no such problems. It was the innocent person Jesus as the man, without there being any duality in him, who uttered this cry of astonishment and agony. The Dilemma of Jesus Let me once again make it clear that I do not disbelieve in Jesus as but have profound respect for him as a messenger of God with