Jesus

Who is Jesus? It is the central question. The crucial question. The all-defining question. The question every person must first find an answer to. Is He the One Who He claimed to be? Is He the Origin, the Bearer, and the Destiny of the universe? Or is He an impostor? In the first case, every person should embrace Him immediately. In the second case, His followers should be eradicated root and branch. He claimed to be eternal life, the eternal "I Am," the only way to God.

Strangely enough, few draw either conclusion. At Christmas, the world commemorates the birth of the Christ Child, who descended to us from heaven. But from January onward, everything returns to normal. Don't we know what pretensions the Christ Child had as an adult?

Is He God, revealed in the flesh, who died for our sins and rose again for our justification? Then every person should flee into His arms to escape eternal judgment. That this judgment is very real is evident from the enormous sacrifice He Himself made to save us from it. Apparently, it was necessary; otherwise, He would not have had to take that almost impossible path.

However, if He were merely a deceiver, then millions in this world are on the wrong track, wasting their time and energy and dragging others into their deception. Then the deception should be demonstrated once and for all.

Many propose a middle way as an escape between these two extremes: Jesus, like many other sages, was a great teacher, and we can learn much from Him: not to worry about tomorrow, to love our enemies, to treat others as we would like to be treated, and so on. But was that His intention? To show the world the right path with wise words?

Undoubtedly, He gave the world the opportunity to choose the right path. But the world was unwilling. "He was in the world, and the world knew Him not. He came to His own, and His own received Him not." It was precisely those who had all the information about his coming in their scriptures, the Jews, who rejected him and had him executed by crucifixion.

Therefore, Jesus' message goes far beyond simply "the right path for the world." If Jesus' words contain any wisdom—and everyone who knows these words fully agrees about that—then Jesus convincingly demonstrated that the world is lost. The cross to which the world condemned Him means that the world itself has been judged and that no human being is capable of following "the right path."