Week 3

The Many Faces of Jesus.

This week we read Marcus Borg’s book, Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary. In chapter one he began by saying that we are "Christ-haunted" and "Christ-forgetting". Borg then continues to point out that today, in our culture, Christians are divided over many different issues. By this he means that event though many people are all Christians, they still debate about things like the Iraq war and gay marriage. I personally found this very interesting because I had never really thought about it that way. It doesn't make sense that we could all be Christians, yet still fight over things because we all interpret it differently.


Right or Wrong?


In chapter two Borg summarizes his conclusions about the historical Jesus. The historical Jesus he calls the pre-Easter Jesus. I then thought it was interesting how Borg describes Jesus in four categories of a religious leader. These categories were spiritual person, teacher of wisdom, social prophet, and movement founder. I thought this was very interesting on how many different ways he was seen. There was one big thing in the reading that the author pointed out to me. This was, how do we know if we are interpreting the bible the "right" way? I feel as though there is almost no right or wrong way to interpreting it, however what the author says, makes me ponder that question in my mind. How do we know?