Jesus Christ

As a Christian, I know quite well about Jesus Christ generally, because this is a must to know the God you believe in. But I never expect that there are many people other than Christians know quite a lot about Jesus Christ! Haha! It's such as big surprise to me, meanwhile a pleasant news to me. At least, my God is really well-known not merely among his own worshipers. I got this news from an event, a so-called interfaith talk organized by an Islam organization.

The topic of this talk was all about Jesus Christ, surprisingly and interestingly from Christianity and Islam perspectives. It was the first time I joined this kind of supposedly awkward talk. I thought that would be a debate on what Christians and Muslims believe in Jesus Christ, but thank God this is a friendly talk which helps the public to gain more knowledge about Jesus Christ to Christians and Muslims, meanwhile let Christians and Muslims exchange knowledge about Jesus Christ among each others.

The speaks are really both highly educated and having a high understanding about Jesus Christ. I don't really know them, but I am sure that one of them is Dr. Living Lee who represents Christianity to share about the point of view about Jesus Christ to Christianity. They shared about the history of Jesus Christ to the audiences according to their own bible and Al-Qur'an. I like the way they presented, because they are really confident and clear about what they believe. They didn't say something about other religions, they didn't comment on other point of view. Two speakers had no both-ways question and answer section. But they allowed the audiences to hand up question papers to the speakers, and had a both-ways Q and A section between speakers and the audiences in this simple way.

During this talk, I was surprised that a real Muslim needs to believe in Jesus Christ as well. They need to believe and acknowledge the existence of Jesus Christ. They need to believe that he was one of the prophets and born under the cover of holy spirit. However, some differences in some beliefs really amazed me. For instance, they don't believe that Jesus Christ underwent crucifixion, died and arose 3 days after the crucifixion. They believe that Jesus Christ did not die at all, and got raised up to the heaven eventually. They don't believe that Jesus was come as a God, which means they didn't recognize him as a God, but a really powerful prophet. It was a really eye-opener to me about Muslims' point of view to Jesus Christ.

During Q and A questions, i found that there were many interesting questions. However, the way they answered to the questions were really impressive and polite. They respected each and every questions and answered according to the teaching from the bible. One question was that, how can we get peace in this world, by just believing in Jesus (historical person)?Explain. (question to Dr. Living Lee) He replied: "Well, it is difficult to let you understand fully. Okay..imagine one day, you heard a man with mental disorder told you that he can feel the love from a teddy bear. You can never understand, because he is the only one you can feel it, he strongly believes that is real. He could be either right or having something with his mental. On the other side, you got informed by a man that he can feel the love from his watch! No other people can believe that, because he is the only one who believes in that. In this kind of situation, normally people believe that both guys are having mental problem, because no other people can feel the love from watch and teddy bear! But in this world, you can find that there are millions of people who shared about the testimonies of  how Jesus Christ changed their lives! It's either you choose to believe that these millions people have mental problem or they are really saying something real but seemingly insensible to others."

The way he explained about the most complicated and incomprehensible thing to many people is that the trinity of God in Christianity. We couldn't find a thing in daily life as a great example and description for the trinity. However he said:" can you see the triangle? A triangle has three sides essentially. We couldn't form a triangle without a side, it applies the same thing to trinity, God is of three persons, it's like a triangle with three sides but doesn't mean that we got three Gods. The triangle is one after all, God is only one as well."

That was a successful talk after all, and the auditorium was fully occupied. That was the first time I witnessed the fullness within the auditorium and this was all because of the talk about Jesus Christ. Well.. Proud of believing in Jesus Christ, at least after this, I know that many people know this "historical person" is extraordinary.