The Recalcitrant Jesus

Fellow Labourers-

One of the words synonymous with recalcitrant is stubborn. It is not that Jesus is stubborn but it is hard to get him off your mind. There is no other person as studied as Jesus. And all the studies do not lead to the same conclusion. You see it's hard to start with a faulty premise and end up with a correct conclusion. In his book 'Jesus among other gods' Ravi Zacharias said "The inability to think in context is so manifest in the moral conflicts that we live with today. Every major battle we fight is either because we deny the text or because we justify the contrary by appealing to a different context."

According to the Handbook of Christian Apologetics "Huston Smith notes, in the world's religions, that only two people ever astounded their contemporaries so much that the question they evoked was not who is he? but what is he? They were Jesus and Budha. The answers these two gave were exactly opposite. Budha said unequivocally that he was mere man, not a god-almost as if he foresaw later attempts to worship him. Jesus, on the other hand, claimed in many ways to be divine."

The divinity of Christ is the most distinctively Christian doctrine of all. And no other religion has a doctrine that is even similar. Yes indeed the recalcitrant Jesus. Pilate could not wash him off his hand or get him out of his mind.

Pax Vobiscum

Robert Stewart