They Call Themselves Christians...

Who is Jesus?

There are many people out there who believe in Jesus and profess to know Him. But there are problems that exist when we think or believe something about someone that is not true. It would prove to be quite pointless to have a friend names Joe and believe that Joe was an alien from Jupiter when he really was a banker from Boston. There wouldn’t be much of a connection between Joe and I and that would mean there wouldn’t be any correct communication. No matter how many times I talked to Joe or even talked about Joe, the only thing i would be getting right would be his name. And that just won’t do at all. Especially if there were 66 books of Information written about Joe and his father, and thousands of years of history that would provide a background to Joe and his father’s true self. But this is what the post-modern and consequent emergent generations believe about Jesus. Many would like to simply have a relationship with Jesus, and forgo all of the propositions that describe Him. That would then be no relationship at all, only with the imagined man in one’s own head. And this, according to Scripture, is idolatry. To view Jesus the Son or God the Father as anything other than what the Scriptures show them to be, is idolatry. And this is what the emergent generation has done. Instead of trusting in God and believing what He tells us about Himself through the Scriptures, we have now decided to trust our own selves and make Jesus and God out to what we perceive Him to be. And this is idolatry at its finest. John Calvin understood this long before post-modernity, or even the enlightenment, ever hit our minds:

“Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation. Hence, they do not conceive of him in the character in which he is manifested, but imagine him to be whatever their own rashness has devised. This abyss standing open, they cannot move one footstep without rushing headlong to destruction. With such an idea of God, nothing which they may attempt to offer in the way of worship or obedience can have any value in his sight, because it is not him they worship, but, instead of him, the dream and figment of their own heart.”