Chapter 20- Dan Brown's works, true or false?
I now carry the choking odour of incense smoke. After church today, my family went to two temples to visit our dead relatives. Not that i hate buddhism or any other religion, but whenever i go to these temples, i get an immense feeling on emptiness within me, i do not know why, but i just feel very aimless and hopeless. But whenever i think of the love in my church again, i'm very lucky and relieved that i'm who i am, which might be wrong, because i should not be proud of myself. But it's just a feeling of emptiness..You want love?
As any Christian has said again and again, about how wrong dan brown's works are, i would like to say it again. People love to get crazy over these books, people like jun qiang, who hasn't finished reading angels and demons and is crazy over it now, calling himself a illuminist, satanist, or luciferian, what is that? I mean, i know it seems so ''cool'' to call oneself a ''illuminist'' but please, do you think it's really cool to be a devil worshipper? Do you think its so cool to be anti-Christ, i mean, respect other religions.. And i do not know why certain people hate Christ so much, maybe they think he's a lunatic.. but, imagine for one moment, if i were to go out to the media and tell them, '' i'm God!'' Wouldn't the whole world want a piece of my head? You would surely think that i'm a lunatic wouldn't you? I mean, how can that small sized kid hexun be the Almighthy? He's crazy! That's what many people thought, that is probably why they wanted to kill Jesus. from Beneath that smile: A lunatic is, by definition, a person who is suffering from illness from the mind. Let's examine if Jesus was ill in teh mind. A person ill in the mind would reflect that in incoherent and absurd speech. What can we conclude from the quality of jesus' speech? The most famous sermon of all time was Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Jesus' exposition on Christian ethics in the sermon has been hailed by modern day scholars as some of the most, if not the most profound sayings ever in history. ''Was He deluded about his greatness, a paranoid, an unintentional deceiver, a schizophrenic? Again, the skill and depth of His techings support the case of only for His total mental soundness. If only we were as sane as He!"
So the other alternatives is that He's a liar, but let's face it, who would ever die for a lie? Jesus was given many opportunities by the courts to admit his foolishness. By that simple admission, he would not need to face the cruelest of executions- cruxifixion. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine that Jesus would endure repeated lashings of the whip and finally the excruciating cross, if he knew deep down in his heart it was all a pack of lies! The most atrocious of liars would repent if his lie would cost him his life! Yet, Jesus, even to his last breath, stood true to his claim of being the unique Son of God. Not once did he waver. Dan Brown claims that Jesus was merely a great moral teacher. '' Nobody is saying that Christ was a fraud, or denying that he walked on earth and inspired millions to better lives. all we are saying is that constantine took advantage of Christ's substantial influence and importance." But a truly great moral teacher would not lead others astray with claims of being devine!
In C.S. Lewis' book, Mere Christianity: " You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human techer. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. "
As any Christian has said again and again, about how wrong dan brown's works are, i would like to say it again. People love to get crazy over these books, people like jun qiang, who hasn't finished reading angels and demons and is crazy over it now, calling himself a illuminist, satanist, or luciferian, what is that? I mean, i know it seems so ''cool'' to call oneself a ''illuminist'' but please, do you think it's really cool to be a devil worshipper? Do you think its so cool to be anti-Christ, i mean, respect other religions.. And i do not know why certain people hate Christ so much, maybe they think he's a lunatic.. but, imagine for one moment, if i were to go out to the media and tell them, '' i'm God!'' Wouldn't the whole world want a piece of my head? You would surely think that i'm a lunatic wouldn't you? I mean, how can that small sized kid hexun be the Almighthy? He's crazy! That's what many people thought, that is probably why they wanted to kill Jesus. from Beneath that smile: A lunatic is, by definition, a person who is suffering from illness from the mind. Let's examine if Jesus was ill in teh mind. A person ill in the mind would reflect that in incoherent and absurd speech. What can we conclude from the quality of jesus' speech? The most famous sermon of all time was Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Jesus' exposition on Christian ethics in the sermon has been hailed by modern day scholars as some of the most, if not the most profound sayings ever in history. ''Was He deluded about his greatness, a paranoid, an unintentional deceiver, a schizophrenic? Again, the skill and depth of His techings support the case of only for His total mental soundness. If only we were as sane as He!"
So the other alternatives is that He's a liar, but let's face it, who would ever die for a lie? Jesus was given many opportunities by the courts to admit his foolishness. By that simple admission, he would not need to face the cruelest of executions- cruxifixion. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine that Jesus would endure repeated lashings of the whip and finally the excruciating cross, if he knew deep down in his heart it was all a pack of lies! The most atrocious of liars would repent if his lie would cost him his life! Yet, Jesus, even to his last breath, stood true to his claim of being the unique Son of God. Not once did he waver. Dan Brown claims that Jesus was merely a great moral teacher. '' Nobody is saying that Christ was a fraud, or denying that he walked on earth and inspired millions to better lives. all we are saying is that constantine took advantage of Christ's substantial influence and importance." But a truly great moral teacher would not lead others astray with claims of being devine!
In C.S. Lewis' book, Mere Christianity: " You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human techer. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. "
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