You can’t deny that Jesus was significant. His birth alone has divided time – nevermind AC/DC, Jesus divided our AD from our BC.
But in striving to understand his significance, just about everyone has offered their opinion about him. And with so many different perspectives, you can be forgiven for asking: “Will the real Jesus please stand up?”
As one scholar has put it: “An analysis of the changing ideas of Christ and portraits of Jesus in history shows that they correspond so much to the needs of their age, place of origin and intended purpose that one cannot avoid the suspicion that they are illusory and artificial.”
The last thing we want is an artificial, plastic Jesus. That’s why we’re setting out to discover the real one.
Join us from tomorrow night, Thursday, 7pm in the Edge cafe, for the next series of School – “Dismantling the plastic Jesus“.
