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WHO IS THIS JESUS? DISTORTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY Unfortunately, through the ages, the devil has distorted Christianity so much that the Gospel has often been obscured. People, even lifetime churchgoers, often don’t have a clue as to what real Christianity is all about. So just exactly what is Christianity? Sometimes, the “Christianity” being attacked by our culture today is such a false, twisted caricature that it bears little resemblance to the true faith. Indeed it ought to be attacked. Recently, a lesbian who claimed to be a Christian came “out of the closet,” declaring war on historic Christianity—the religion of the Cross. It turns out that as a child she had been placed naked on a cross by an adult—for some twisted, religious reason. Today she resents and rejects the Cross of Christ as the means of salvation. Woe to the person who did this terrible misdeed, for it has caused her to reject a “straw man” of Christianity, not the real thing. But God’s timeless truths about the salvation He offers us in Christ are not made null by the sins of professing Christians. Even if the entire official Church were to become apostate, that would not nullify the Gospel. Therefore, I want to devote the rest of this chapter to the purpose of clarifying what true Christianity really is. The basic message of Christianity is not “do,” but “done.” “It is done” were the last words of Christ before commending His soul to the Father. It is done. It is finished. It is complete. It is accomplished (to quote Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ). It is enough. Tetelestai is the Greek word Jesus said when He breathed 139
THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH His last. This Greek word was often used in economic transactions, and it means “paid in full.” Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sins. The atonement is completed, and now, all who trust in Him may have eternal life freely. JESUS: “YOU MUST BE PERFECT” I remember twenty-five years or so ago, my wife and I were invited to a dinner at the home of one of our church families. There must have been about 10 or 15 people present. There was a long table and I was invited to sit down near one end of the table; my wife was seated near the other end. Across from me was the mother of the hostess, a lady about 65 or 70, and she said to me, “Oh, Rev. Kennedy, I am so happy to be seated across from you, because I’ve always wanted to ask a minister a question.” And I said, “Well, fine, I will be glad to try and answer it. Don’t make it too hard or I’ll have to get up and go ask my wife. But what is it?” She said, “How good does a person have to be, to be good enough to get into Heaven?” Now, that’s a question many people ought to ask themselves. So many do not even bother to do so, but at least this woman had the intelligence to realize that if one was going to get into Heaven by being good, one should intelligently ask how good is good enough. What is the passing grade in this course? Is it 70 or 75 or 80 or 60 or 50 or what is it? And I said, “Oh, is that your question? Well, 140
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