For many, reality is only what they see, but Rev McCarthy comprehends:
Visible reality is but a speck of reality. Most of what is most important in life takes place on the invisible side of existence. Each life is an icon, a visible image of invisible realities"
The only way in this world that any person can be known--and that includes Jesus--is by his or her words and deeds. Separate a person from her or his words and deeds and there is nothing of the person to experience, to know or to have faith in.
The only Jesus Christ that exists is the Jesus Christ of the words and deeds found in the Gospel. Separate Jesus from His words and deeds, and all that is left is a non-existent, humanly created, imaginary character named Jesus.
For example, the Jesus of the Gospels is Jewish, regardless of how many Irishmen think, say, or wish He were Irish! Any presentation of Jesus as an Irishman from Dublin rather than as a Jew from Nazareth is a presentation of a Jesus who is no more a person of historical existence than is Spider-Man. [Ibid]
This American Irish dissident with Russian and Jewish DNA
came to know
Jesus as a social justice NONVIOLENT Palestinian devout Jewish road
warrior who
agitated Temple and State during my first of seven trips to Israel
Palestine in
2005, and ever since I have irritated many Christians who are more
interested
in socializing than in the social gospel.
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