Dec 22, 2006 01:31
I deem this question pointless.
The point of Christianity is not Christ but the teachings and examples set by Christ as they have filtered to us. Whether those teachings are divine in origin is fairly irellevant.
Moreover for me growing in a traditional Eastern church Christianity was more about God the Father , then about Mary, then if you really decided to delve into mysticism the Holy Spirit. Jesus is important insofar as he is a beginning and maybe an end. Time has a beginning and an end thanks to the doctrine of the Incarnation. ; which takes care of the whole wheel of samsara conundrum quite nicely.
Sacraments are a sort of ritual expression that are not especially contingent on Christ's divinity for meaning.