Tonight, after our choir performance, a group of my friends and I started discussing the existence of God. One of the members of the choir had just finished telling us that after being raised a Seventh-Day Adventist his entire life, he started to question God's existence. He was skeptical about the idea of creation and how there was a single Being that was responsible for our existence as humans. He also brought up the idea that Jesus, Himself, was against the whole concept of Christianity as a religion because Christ worshiped the God of the Jewish religion.
When, someone else brought up the fact that Jesus considered Himself to be the Son of God, he responded by saying that He might have meant that as some sort of a metaphor.
That comment had me thinking, what if all the words that Jesus said were metaphors? He does refer to all of us as being sons and daughters of God. I'm guessing the problem that my friend had was trying to grasp the concept of a group of people worshiping and creating a religion to glorify a human being, who claims to be humble, but at the same time calls Himself the Alpha & Omega.
Before this conversation, I was very one dimensional in my way of thinking. My friend's claims unfolded a whole new series of answers for me to discover.
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Haha, I totally dig what your friend was talking about. I think it's healthy to question your beliefs (religion especially), it's part of what makes you human I think.
But your question. What if Jesus said everything metaphorically? Well, He used a lot of metaphors, parables, and it wouldn't surprise me. I'm sure that there's truth to what He was talking about, but let me just play devil's advocate.
So what if Jesus never really was the son of God. Does that detract from His words? Does that detract from the beauty in what He said? When He told us to love, does it lose its meaning because Jesus may or may not have been speaking metaphorically?
I don't know. Regardless of whether or not Jesus has been blown up to Santa Clausian proportions, I think His words work on a transcendental level. Everyone can relate to love and compassion and acceptance. That's one of the most beautiful things about Jesus.
I hope that made sense.
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