Jesus… who he really is
Unlike any other man and any other religion’s
founder, Jesus was alive before he was born
and lives after he died!
More words have been spo- edge him when they date their
ken, more books have writings.
been written, more
songs have been The great historian Kenneth Scott
sung, more Latourette said, ‘Measured by his
art has been effect on history, Jesus is the most
created and influential life ever lived on this
more movies planet. That influence appears to be
have been mounting.’
made about
Jesus – than Charles Dickens would often tell his
anyone else family the story of Jesus’ life, but in
in history. 1849 he decided to do more than
that. He wrote for them the ‘Life of
His birth, death and resur- Christ’. The intro reads, ‘Everybody
rection are the biggest events ought to know about Jesus. No one
celebrated in our world today, who ever lived was so good, so kind,
with more than two billion people so gentle and so sorry for all the
claiming to follow him. people who did wrong or were ill or
miserable, as he was.’
The whole world counts time as
Before Christ – BC – and after him But Jesus isn’t just the central figure
– AD (Anno Domini, which means of history, he is outside of history
‘In the year of our Lord’). Some too! He is alive today, because he is
academics now use the politically more than just a man, he is the hu-
correct terms BCE (Before man face of God. He existed before
the Common Era) and CE time and space, and is eternal.
(Common Era) instead,
but they mean exactly Jesus said that to see him was to
the same thing: his- see God, to know him was to know
tory revolves around God, to receive him was to receive
Christ. Even those God, to love him was to love God,
who write against and to reject him was to reject God.
Christ acknowl- Even his sentence to be crucified
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