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Novart
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Your practical operative word is “opinion.” Why? Because even if one was face to face with Jesus, as many allegedly were, they came away from their experience of Him with their own opinion. No flight feathers: o-pinion.
Why? because then, as now, we interpret our experience according to the astonishingly hidden assumptions formed in our minds pre-cognatively and pre-verbally. That is why most therapies that rely on logic, reason, and grammar don’t work slowly and poorly and the ones based on imagery and sensation tend to be far quicker and more effective.
Also, anyone honest with themselves enough to do a self inventory and assessment by Universals of how they think, about what, and why, soon realize that not only their mind, but their own sense of self is not what they were educated to think it is.
What that comes down to, referent to the OP’s question, is that no one know Jesus directly, only their thoughts they were taught to think about Jesus. And usually we don’t know those very well, as we take so much for granted as being true, despite their being only our impressions, habituated ans assumed to be accurate.
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Yeah? then why didn’t you use this:He was a hoopy frood who knew where his towel was.
Couldn’t resist.
At least it’s closer to your intent, don’t you think?
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Yes. I want to understand how people respond to Jesus’ question, “Who do you say I am?”
It’s curious that not many people ventured a response…perhaps all the Catholics did not feel the need to respond (understandably), and the non-Christians simply didn’t want to get into it.
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Sorry for the delay… Here I am rushing in!“fools rush in”
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In my estimation, this is the hardest question to answer - as Jesus is God, and God created everything, therefore the true answer to this would be quite long if you were to include everything that Jesus has done for us and will do for us.
Perhaps the simplest answer I can give is this: Jesus is our savior.
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