Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.
Jesus was nothing like I thought - He wasn't condemning. He was loving and leading.
Jesus did not always like the Apostles' way of acting, but by adapting himself to their temperament, praying for them to his father, giving them a holy example of conduct, he loved them, and that love changed them.
Obviously, you're trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I'm trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do.
Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.
Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.
There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.
For thirty years, Jesus never allowed his divinity to manifest itself. He was infinitely superior to everyone but never showed it.
Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.
Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.'
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