Theology and history go hand in hand in the real person of Jesus Christ

Theology and history go hand in hand in the real person of Jesus Christ, making the truth of the Gospels profoundly human and powerfully meaningful. You've probably heard the common accusation that Christians believe a myth, that the "Jesus of Easter faith" (with its Virgin Birth, miracles, resurrection, and ascension) is the stuff of legend and does not belong to the portrait of the historical Jesus. This accusation is intended to negate Christian truth claims because they are mythical. By labeling the core Christian message regarding the Incarnation as myth (thus exposing the superstitious and fraudulent nature of Christian belief), gainsayers look to drive moderns to their right mind, that is, into the mindset of agnosticism, deism, or atheism which, as the thinking goes, totally repudiate myths and other such folklore, fantasies, and fairytales. C.S. Lewis was once challenged by his friend Cornelius on the connection between Christian beliefs about Jesus and myths that seemed to expose such beliefs as the stuff of legend. Lewis pondered that if Cornelius is right and there are mythical elements in the Gospel accounts, then why would Christians still insist on teaching the biblical narrative about Jesus "in terms of an archaic mythology which must hamper and embarrass them at every turn?" Lewis further wondered, "Why do they refuse to cut the umbilical cord which binds the living and flourishing [i.e., the Church community and the social good it does] to its moribund mother [i.e., the myths of the Gospels that undermine it]?" [1] One would have thought that modern Christians would have abandoned this embarrassment and got on with the ethical teaching of Jesus without the Virgin Birth, atonement, resurrection, and ascension.

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