Probably none. All he’s doing is casting Jesus in his own image. I’ve heard all this stuff before. CS Lewis dealt with it his “Screwtape Letters”. The Senior Devil Screwtape is writing to his Junior trainee, Wormwood…
“In the last generation we promoted the construction of a ‘historical Jesus’ on liberal and humanitarian lines; we are now putting forward a new ‘historical Jesus’ on Marxian, catastrophic, and revolutionary lines. The advantages of these constructions, which we intend to change every thirty years or so, are manifold. In the first place they all tend to direct men’s devotion to something which does not exist, for each ‘historical Jesus’ is unhistorical. The documents say what they say and cannot be added to; each new ‘historical Jesus’ therefore has to be got out of them by suppression at one point and exaggeration at another, and by that sort of guessing (brilliant is the word we teach humans to apply to it) on which no one would risk ten shillings in ordinary life, but which is enough to produce a crop of new Napoleons, new Shakespeares, and new Swifts, (and new Elton Johns), in every publisher’s autumn list.”
It goes on.
That’s not unusual. Revolutionaries call Him a predecessor to Marxist theory; Capitalists claim He had an exemplary management style; Feminists say He empowered women and the Church should do the same; New Age followers call Him a great teacher and moral guru; the Moslems call Him a prophet; Hindus worship Him as one of their deities; Mormons call HIm an also-ran, one of whose divine brother is Satan; Bishop Spong wants a new Christianity; Nietzshe said God is dead.
It’s another seven day wonder, like the Da Vinci Code, or the Toronto Event. When Elton John is dead and gone to judgment, the Church will still be going, and Christ will still be Lord.
rolleyes
