Is Jesus God?
“Is Jesus God?” A friend who seems to be experiencing certain spiritual stirrings these days asked me with an apprehension that sounded genuine. It looked as if the answer to that question would determine the worth of his life hereafter. I told him I was the wrong person to consult in this matter since I am a confirmed atheist. [Honestly, I’m not so sure about that. For all practical purposes, I live like an atheist. But I’m more interested in religion and spirituality than most ordinary believers, I think.] Nevertheless, I gave him my answer. In my vision and understanding of the cosmos, God has no place whatever. “In the beginning was hydrogen,” as I wrote mixing science with metaphor in a post recently and I drew my friend’s attention to it. But… Yes, there’s a significant BUT here. Jesus is God. Jesus became God. And I went on to explain my ‘theology’ briefly. Jesus was a man like my friend, me, and many others. A man who experienced fear, doubt, sexual desire, anger, e...
