My Life, Your Story.

Quoted from one of my fav author - Philip Yancey's "The Jesus I Never Knew"

"Jesus, i found, bore little resemblance to the Mister Rogers figure I'd met in Sunday school, and was remarkably unlike the person I had studied in Bible college. For one thing, he was far less tame. In my prior image, I realize, Jesus' personality matched that of a Star Trek Vulcan; he remained calm, cool, and collected as he strode like a robot among excitable human beings on spaceship earth. That is not what I found portrayed in the Gospels and in the better films. Other people affected Jesus deeply: obstinacy frustrated him, self-righteousness infuriated him, simple faith thrilled him. Indeed, he seemed more emotional and spontaneous than the average person, not less. More passionate, not less.

The more I studied Jesus, the more difficult it became to pigeon-hole him. He said little about the Roman occupation, the main topic of conversation among his countrymen, and yet he took up a whip to drive petty profiteers from the Jewish temple. He urged obedience to the Mosaic law while acquiring the reputation as a lawbreaker. He could be stabbed by sympathy for a stranger, yet turn on his best friend with the flinty rebuke, "Get behind me, Satan!" He had uncompromising views on rich men and loose women, yet both types enjoyed his company.

One day miracles seemed to flow out of Jesus; the next day his power was blocked by people's lack of faith. One day he talked in detail of the Second Coming; another, he knew neither the day nor hour. He fled from arrest at one point and marched inexorably toward it at another. He spoke eloquently about peacemaking, then told his disciples to procure swords. His extravagant claims about himself kept him at the center of controversy, but when he did something truly miraculous he tended to hush it up. As Walter Wink has said, if Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him."

Like wat the book says, He was a way just like everyone else, yet in another way He was something different from anyone who had ever lived on earth before.

"...Whatever you may believe abt it, the birth of Jesus was so impt it splitted history into 2 parts. Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ or after Christ."

H.G. Wells said, "More than 1900 years later, a historian like myself, who doesn't even call himself a Christian, finds the picture centering irrestibly around the life and character of this most significant man.. the historian's test of an individual's greatness is 'What did he leave to grow?' Did he start men to thinking along fresh lines with a vigor that persisted after him? By this test Jesus stands first." You can gauge the size of a ship that has passed out of sight by the huge wake it leaves behind. ;)

Yea i love it that ppl are still debating abt Him still, after so many years.. hee. This is the Jesus i love. =)