WHO IS JESUS? - CHAPTER - 1 # 17
WHO IS JESUS? CHAPTER 1 1. WILL THE REAL JESUS PLEASE STAND UP? There are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that they offer little help in achieving an accurate picture of what Christ looked like during the period of His incarnation. This multiplicity of images parallels the widespread confusion about Jesus identity that exists in the world today. We need Christ __the real Christ. A Christ born of empty speculation or created to squeeze into the philosopher's pattern simply won't do. A recycled Christ, a Christ of compromise, can redeem no one. 2. A Christ watered down, stripped of power, debased of glory, reduced to a symbol, or made impotent by scholarly surgery is not Christ but Antichrist. The prefix anti can mean "against" or "instead of." In language, there is a difference, but in life, it is a distinction without a difference, because to supplant the real Jesus with