Sherwood Chourou - Week 33 Study Thoughts (Episode 2)

Historical Jesus Christ

I have heard time to time of persons claiming to believe in Jesus Christ as a "historical figure", or as a person who existed in history, but do not believe in Him as the Son of God or as the Savior of the world. I would like to take a moment to vent my frustrations with this claim.

The whole of my issue is this: there is no such thing as a "historical" Jesus Christ. To convey this, I have split the idea into 3 main concepts, the first of which is the belief that the Bible is fiction, but was based on a real person named Jesus Christ who taught about religion some two thousand years ago. For those who wish to argue this point, let me ask you, what historical record do you have that refers to Christ besides the Holy Scriptures or an artifact referencing said scriptures? There is none. To believe in Jesus Christ as a person separate from the Bible is simply impossible, for never was he recorded as anything else. Therefore, if the Bible is fiction, then there is no basis on which to believe that a man named Jesus Christ even existed back then.

Now, what if one claims to believe in the Jesus Christ by the Bible, but disbelieves that the miracles surrounding him actually occured. This is the most tolerable stance of those I'll be discussing, but I also think it's also the most dead of them. If you take out all the miracles, you're left with a man walking around teaching utter blasphemy with no authority or power backing him at all. In other words, you've decided to believe that there was a crazy person in the past whom lots of people believed was the literal Son of God, and this based on naught but his own claims. For those who would acclaim to this belief, here's my question to you: why would multitudes of people, including a number of which who practically watched his every move, testify before the world and God Himself that Jesus was the Christ if they had no evidence for such? They wouldn't, just as no one else would, unless every member of those multitudes were as crazy as this belief assumes him to be.

Lastly, I will speak a moment on the claim of believing in Jesus Christ of the Bible, worker of miracles, yet denying that he is the Son of God. Oh ye fools. If you have read even an hundredth of what was written of him, you'd know plenty well that there is no power by which he could've done what he did except that of our Heavenly Father, who would never bestow his power on one who claimed to be his Only Begotten unless it were true. Furthermore, any claim that his power came from something other than God is hardly worth mentioning, as for something to be able to bestow such power would require that said thing be a god, thus negating the entire objective of the thought.

Thank you for bearing with my little rant. I hope that whoever reads this can use it to strengthen their confidence in the divinity of Christ. See you next time!