Relationship

This is going to be brief, but things started clicking in my head during my QT that I wanted to blog/rant about, so please bear with me. I realize so many non-believers and atheists bag on Christianity as a religion, and many believers also call it their religion too. But this is such a huge mistake.

Jesus came down to earth.
God made himself human.
Jesus was susceptible to temptations i.e. forty days in the wilderness.
Why doesn't this click with people? He could have just stayed up in Heaven, made a big glorious scene where the Heavens open up and God's voice booms all across the land that if we believe in Jesus, who briefly waves his godly hand at us, that we shall be saved from our sins. That is an amazing act of mercy and grace from God as it is.

But God went even further.
OH NO HE DIDN'T!
Oh yes He did.

God sent his son Jesus DOWN from Heaven to earth as a HUMAN BEING to live amongst us. Jesus lived as a human, with humans, and therefore is able to relate with us.

Time for a brief commercial break.

relate - e + ionship = relationship

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Could it be possible that Jesus came down and struggled with the temptations and other junk we deal with everyday, including death, and then conquer it while being a human being? It's the truth! Call me crazy, but I do believe that now we can relate to Jesus because he endured and conquered the same temptations we do in our everyday life. I think that because of this we should have a relationship with Jesus!

I feel like this should be one of the most basic things taught at Sunday School or by evangelists, because it seems that the rest of the world just doesn't get it, but it is the most essential thing. Jesus said that He is the way, the truth, and the life, but we want to call this a religion instead of a relationship? That's baloney. We need to get it straight people.