The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #60629   Message #973915
Posted By: Little Hawk
28-Jun-03 - 02:50 PM
Thread Name: What price the truth!!
Subject: RE: What price the truth!!
Jesus also is also reputed to have said to his disciples on another occasion "Ye are all gods, and sons of the most high". Therefore, that indicates that he did not think he was the ONLY son of God, but he extended that position to others as well.

It was his followers who chose to give him the "one and only" status. Their mistake, not his. His closest followers were also guilt-stricken (understandably) that they had run away and abandoned him at the time of his arrest and crucifixion, and I think that is a major reason why we find so much guilt and sin consciousness embedded in the Christian religion to this day, because it was those followers who put together the Christian religion. They stamped their own guilt upon all of humanity. I do not get the impression Jesus was into guilt in the least. He was into transformation. He said "Go thy way and sin no more"...not..."Go thy way lamenting over how bad thou wast in the past and beating thyself silly over it."

- LH