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??? He never had to even look.
Christians...you have obviously found Jesus. Has he found you?
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1- Christians have obviously found Jesus and have been doing so since the beginning of his mission.
2- However, they’ve all been finding a different Jesus, and are continuing to do so to this day. Even more so these days, one could argue, because gone are the times when having a different Jesus to the officially declared one could cost you your life.
3- Matthew 21:11 has recorded for us that it was not just the odd person or two, but "the MULTITUDE said, This is Jesus the PROPHET of Nazareth of Galilee".
4- If the multitude were just a lay people not blessed with a deeper understanding then according to Acts 2:22 no less a person than Peter himself, declared that Jesus "[a] WAS A MAN APPROVED OF GOD among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which [c] GOD DID by him"
5- The JWs will show you from the Bible how they work out that Jesus was the archangel Michael.
6- Whereas the common Christian understanding is that Jehovah is the Father and Jesus His son, I think the Mormons see Jesus as Jehovah.
7- The actual variation in the Jesus people have found is far wider than that presented here, with some having believed that he existed only in spiritual form and not in the corrupted material or physical one.
8- So, what if someone carried out an independent neutral reading of the Gospels, what sort of Jesus would we find? We’d find a Jesus who never knew of, let alone taught, Christianity. We’d find that he was a Jew, circumcised in accordance with God’s everlasting covenant with Abraham and that he preached in synagogues from the Jewish scriptures. He declared the heavenly Father to be the only true God, worshiped and prayed to this God and told his followers to do the same. He observed the Mosaic laws and warned his followers against breaking even the least of the laws. He never taught of the original sin, or babies being born in sin, or that sin entered the world through Adam and would leave through him, or that God had sent him on a mission to die for the sins of mankind. We’d find a very different Jesus to the one worshiped in the vast majority of the Christian world.
9- So who has found the real Jesus?