When I say it's hard to believe in Jesus, I mean it's hard to believe in Jesus's ideas-in his way of saving the world. For Christians it's not hard to believe in Jesus as the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity-all the Christological stuff the church hammered out in the first five centuries. That's not hard for us. What's hard is to believe in Jesus as a political theologian. It's hard because his ideas for running the world are so radically different from anything we are accustomed to.
( Brian Zahnd )
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