Who is Jesus?

It is an endless topic for discussion, but nevertheless an intriguing one for the last 2000+ years. Some say he is human, some say he is divine.

For the most part of my adult life so far, I have believed in the orthodox, traditional view of who Jesus was. So to me, Jesus was God in flesh, and Jesus was the Son of God. He came and die for humanity because humanity had fallen into sin: God himself had to pay the penalty of mankind's failure, shed the blood of atonement, so that mankind can be redeemed.

The other side of the coin, for me, of course - was 'How do I know what I believe is true"? Can it be false and can it be untrue that whatever I am believing in now is completely a fabrication of imaginative and superstitious who perhaps deified the man Jesus, who possibly lived as a great man but died with a family, as the recent Da Vinci code suggested?

Perhaps that could be true. And if it's true, whatever that I have believed in is false and silly. Whatever that I use to hang on to, I had wasted my life in holding on to.

 But what, and where then, is the solution of Pain and suffering?

Jesus himself said that " I have come that you may have Life, and life to the fullest". I believe he wasn't just referring to the physical , material world. He was probably referring to the spiritual world and our inner world - Do we have peace and love? Is our heart full of strength and joy? Do we have have all the courage to face an uncertain world? Do we feel comforted when things go wrong? Do we have the faith to believe in a better tomorrow when today goes completely haywire?

So Jesus offered an alternative way of thinking. Instead of leaving it to chance, he placed it on HIMSELF. He believed he was THE answer for Humanity's search for love. He placed himself on the conscious path to death - by crucifixion. He had to die, he believed, in order to deliver and save the world from spiritual death, and to give life to mankind.

And of course, there is the Resurrection account. So the gospel tells us that he was crucified, buried, but he rosed again on the 3rd day. He defeated death. He conquered the limitation of death. He arose triumphant....

For one who doesn't believe in this, it is just another story made up by superstitious people.

But for those that believes, it offers a hope - The hope that if Jesus triumph, we can believe in him. If Jesus defeated death, we can place our hope in Him, that we can defeat death. If Jesus demonstrated the ultimate miracle of resurrection, then perhaps our lives doesn't have to be caught up in the quamire of the rat race , of pain, of suffering - but we could, one day, be like him - we can be resurrected triumphantly, spiritual, emotional and physical .......

A point to consider.