Who is Jesus

I'll say what I believe and think about Jesus in this prayer to him. First the prayer, then the explanation, although you may read the explanation first. Following the explanation of the prayer, there is a link to the Directory of the page Christianity reformed from its roots.

I wrote a second (alternate) Song of praise to Jesus, because when reciting my prayers and the following original Song of praise to Jesus, I experienced that Christian fervor, —that of early disciples and that of later Christians,— had reinterpreted and changed the most basic and fundamental attitude of Jesus: his relationship with God.

Thus, you might read the original first, and then the Alternate. If you prefer to read the alternate now, click here.

The prayer

Song of praise to Jesus

Servant of Yahveh and Model of the new creation

Jesus, you are not the Christ depicted in the gospels, a human, corporeal being who eats and could be touched, and with a divine halo, as we were indoctrinated (Luke 24.39-43; John 20.24-29; 21.9-14); but you were the man with a great intimacy with Yahveh and zeal for his glory.

And, when we realize better, that you, Jesus, and all the beings from the "beyond," are not physical entities but incorporeal ones, we have a problem of imagination, and our communion with you hangs as in a vacuum, because we can not concretize it with an image that does not exist.

The point of Christian faith is that you, Jesus, were not a simple memory for the disciples, neither a "duplicate" of divinity; but you were for them, and continue being for us, a living, active and real personage in our lives.

More in the book

Now you might go to the Directory of Christianity Reformed from its roots.