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 WAS JESUS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS? Well, probably more important than the Archbishop of Canterbury! It all really comes down to who you think Jesus was. Here are two possible ways of looking at Jesus' relationship to other world religious leaders: He was a great teacher – he and other religious teachers such as Buddha and Muhammad pointed out a spiritual path, and millions have followed these paths, finding spiritual growth and a relationship with God through doing so. The differences in their teaching just make the different paths suitable for different people. He was the only Son of God – this is the traditional Christian understanding, and it puts the life and teaching of Jesus into a completely different category to the life and teaching of other religious leaders. This has often been expressed by Christians by saying, "the teaching of Buddha and Muhammad contain important truths, but Jesus is the truth." If Jesus is the Son of God in a unique sense, then it means that knowing Jesus is the only God-given way to know God. As Jesus says in the Gospel of John: "I am the way, the truth and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me." More questions about who Jesus was |
Picture: 6th-century mosaic of Christ from Ravenna, Italy. |
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