Cristans say that we are all God´s chilldren, but do you think Jesus is the son of God in a "real" way?.
"Jesus" represents the intermediary between the spirit and the flesh. He is a device by which Christians can then say: "God is not just a sheet-cloaked gaseous vertebrate with a white beard floating in the heavens, but a real flesh and blood deity that walks amongst us.
"See me. Feel me. Touch me. Heal me"
Because Christianity is in the child stage of development, an invisible, silent, odorless, nameless, distant, and nameless God simply will not do in order to calm the fear and anxiety one feels about one's unknown origin and destiny. If anything, the invisible heavenly God alone only serves to add even more terror into our lives. Our parents are mortal and temporary. They also will not do. A surrogate
comforting parent coming from the world of eternity, but one that is tangible and human-like is what is needed, and Jesus fills the bill.
"And the Word
was made Flesh, and dwelt amongst us."
"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God."
It is through his flesh and spirit that Christians feel they can connect to the Father (ie: Heaven):
"No one comes to the Father but through me"
The child-stage Christian interprets everything via of the flesh.
There had to be pain and suffering via of the Crucifixion in order for him to truly believe, clinching Jesus's "authenticity" with the idea of a
physical Resurrection.
Kind of like when a Mexican bites a gold piece in order to confirm that it really is gold.
Remember Jesus commanding Thomas to put his hand into his wounds in order to confirm who he was.
Man had to see, with his own eyes, the body of Jesus hanging from the cross in order to confirm that the debt of Original Sin had indeed been paid via of the ultimate sacrificial host, in the form of a human being; that
physical pain had been endured.
That is how a child thinks.
It is all about the flesh. On Judgment Day, the corpses of every single man, woman, and child who has ever lived will come flying out of their graves, bones a'jangling, in order to be sentenced and directed to their respective destinies, either to endure an eternity of extreme
physical agony, or extreme
physical ecstasy in some Heaven or Hell. Heavenly food will make the taste buds to explode with every bite, while the flesh will slowly be roasted over and over again in some forgotten Hell.
Christianity is a religion of extremes. It never understood the balanced Buddhist view of the Sweet Middle Way.
No, Jesus is not the Son of God at all, but the son of Man. In short he is an external symbol of who man really is. The figure crucified upon the cross is really a symbol of who man is inside. He is a projection of the internal suffering of mankind. But it goes further than that, because he is not only a figure of man's physical suffering, but of man's spiritual suffering, his Metaphysical Distress over his own ignorance about his true nature. Man does not know that he himself is God. He is in denial. And so, he creates, in a roundabout way, a scenario by which he can re-connect to "God". Buddhists call this "the long way home." He creates the idea that man is flesh and God is spirit, and that they are separated by Sin, and that he must somehow be reunited with God when, in reality, man and his divine nature have never, ever been separated even for one nano-second. A child in the dark is fearful and cannot see correctly.
It is all in his child's mind.
What he needs is the Light in order to see that he has never been separated from the One Source at all.
"Oh, Lord, let not my gaze be too high nor too low, but fixed on that thin line of the horizon that separates Heaven from Earth."
Sufi saying
