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There is an old joke about an argument between a Jewish and a Roman Catholic boy. The Roman catholic boy boasted that he could enter the priesthood--and some day might even become pope. When his Jewish friend was unimpressed, the Catholic boy said: "Well, what do you want? You want me to become Jesus Christ?" The Jewish boy replied smugly: "One of our fellows made it."
This is exactly what I don't believe about Jesus Christ: that He was just an ordinary person who climbed upt o Godhead. Jesus was not the ideal boy scout who spent the three-year ministry helping little old ladies across the Sea of Galilee. He was absolutely unique, for He was no less than god in the flesh, come to earth to die for the sins of the world. "No man hath ascended up to heaven," He declared, "but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man" (Jn 3:13).
As a matter of fact, if you or I claimed for ourselves the things Jesus claimed for Himself, we would be carted off for an intensive period of shock treatment. Said Jesus: "I and the Father are one, He who has seen Me has seen the Father"; etc., etc. He forgave sin (thus exercising a divine prerogative) and was ultimately crucified on the charge of blasphemy. To try to make Jesus into a humanistic ideal instead of a divine Savior is to run counter to all the historical facts about Him.
The Church--Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic--always has confessed a Jesus who was "very God of very God" as well as true man. As C. S. Lewis nicely put it in The Screwtape Letters, any other "Jesus" is a product of demonic perversion, not historical fact: "The documents say what they say and cannot be added to; each new 'historical Jesus' therefore has to be got out of them by suppression at one point and exaggeration at another, and by that sort of guessing (brilliant is the adjective we [devils] teach humans to apply to it) on which no one would risk ten shillings in ordinary life, but which is enough to produce a crop of new Napoleans, new Shakespeares, and new Swifts, in every publisher's autumn list."