About Jesus

About Jesus

Luke Writes,
“In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.  (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)  
And everyone went to his own town to register. 
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.  
He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.  
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born,  and she gave birth to her first born, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.” 
           Luke 2:1-7.
The apostle John writing from a spiritual point of view writes,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  
He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.  
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.... 
The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. 
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.  
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—  children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. 
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. 
John 1:1-5, 9-14.
Here are two versions of the birth of Jesus. Luke’s version that describes the physical birth of Jesus. That he was born in Bethlehem in barn.
The other version the apostle John’s version tells spiritually who Jesus is. He makes it clear that,
“He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”
Simply put Jesus was there at the dawn of creation. That all things were made by him. Jesus is God in other words.
  He makes it clear that,
“The Word (Jesus), became flesh and made his dwelling among us.”
In other words Jesus whom John refers to as the “Word” who is God came into His creation.
He came to show us the way to heaven. Jesus said of himself,
‘Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” 
John 14:6.
Jesus never shied away from this. He claimed to be the way to God. The religious leaders of his day would have seen this as Jesus making himself equal to God.
John records this incident during the trial of Jesus before the Roman Governor
“Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” 
“Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?” 
“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “It was your people and your chief priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?” 
Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.” 
“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” 
                           John 18:33-37
The very reason Jesus was on trial was two fold. First the religious leaders of his day seen him as a threat to their authority. Second the he claimed to be God, which was blasphemy and punishable by death.
C.S. Lewis said of Jesus,
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” 
                    C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Please think about it