Jesus: God, Teacher or Prophet?

CS Lewis made an interesting point on the subject of Jesus as prophet.

Jesus of Nazareth claimed that he was the Son of God. Now there are three possibilities that arise from this statement:

First, that Jesus was not the Son of God, but rather he was a lunatic.

Second, that Jesus was not the Son of God, but he was just a bad man who deceived people.

Or Third, that Jesus was who He said He was: the Son of God Himself.

By claiming that He was the Son of God, Jesus left no room in the middle whereby we could call him a teacher, a good man or a prophet. He was either a lunatic, an evil man or the Son of God.

If you're interested in questions about the validity of Christianity, or about logical proofs of the Christian faith, I'd recommend reading Mere Christianity, by CS Lewis. From there, a great wealth of knowledge is available to you in the other works of this great writer! Huzzah!

The Names of the Magi

Frank, Joe and Tom.

Funny story, actually. For a while, Joe wanted to be called Armatron, because he was fantastic at doing the Robot, but Frank and Tom wouldn't go along with it so Joe eventually gave up. They were like, "Joe, we're Magi, you have to stop doing the Robot. It was funny the first time, but now it's just getting kind of awkward." So Joe reluctantly agreed. He WAS damn good at the robot, though. No one could ever take that from him.

Later, it turned out that Joe had been severely dehydrated, so then the whole Armatron thing wasn't so funny after all.

Non-Christians: Can they get into Heaven or What?

To say that non-Christians can't go to Heaven is extremely presumptuous.

Who are we to dictate what God can and cannot do?

As a Christian, one may have beliefs as to who is more likely to go to Heaven, and what one must do to get to Heaven, but in the end God can do anything He wants to.

That includes saving a non-Christian.

So why not quit worry about who's NOT going to Heaven and start thinking about the fact that God can zap you for being a jerk if He feels like it.

The Christian Trinity: What's It All About?

The God of Christianity is said to be a Trinity: three persons, but one Godhead.

The doctrine of the Trinity is not something to be "understood," but rather it is a way of taking a true and incomprehensible statement about God and making it somewhat recognizable to our logical minds. The technical and logical elements of this doctrine are a mystery, and nothing will be gained by trying to understand it through purely logical reasoning. That's because the human mind is ruled by logic, whereas God, creator of all things, is ruled by nothing. God created logic just as he created the universe, and He is therefore above logic, because He existed before logic.

God did, after all, create humans. We cannot understand our own minds because if they were simple enough to be undertood, we would be too simple-minded to understand them. Why, then, do we expect to understand the mind of God?