QUESTIONS????? THIS IS MY OPINION, AND MINE ALONE......

My daughter goes to a Church of England School near our home.  This school is over the road from its church and the children spend quite a lot of time doing church activities.

A lot of the children are quite ambivilent towards the so called workings in the bible, the ones that they are tought at school.  To put it bluntly a lot of the children, not all of them of course, do not know whether to believe in God, or that Jesus did actually exist.

JESUS.......

this is probably the defining image that we all associate with Jesus.  I attended Sunday School as a child and I was given a bible at an early age.  My mother used to constantly rattle on about God and Jesus and was indeed a church goer herself until her father died at a young age.  This changed her mind so she then held the view that if God or Jesus existed then nothing would ever go wrong in the world or nothing bad would ever happen.  This is obviously not the case and me, now, as a 44 year old woman and mother knows that for sure. 

I used to love reading the stories in the bible not with a viewpoint of them being true, but just because they were good stories to read. 

Jesus was born to a mother and father, Mary and Joseph, and he became a hero, a superhero my three year old would probably describe him.  This is no different to the birth of Superman who was obviously a fictional character.  He helped the poor, healed the wounded and was an overall good guy.  Well we obviously have people like this now.  We have charity workers who are not rich themselves, they work tirelessly for the poor giving up lots of valuable time.  We have wonderful talented doctors and nurses who work so hard to save people every day of the week, modernday real superheros.  We have soldiers out in Afghanistan trying to keep the cities of this country free from terrorism, who lose their lives on what seems like a daily basis.  What Jesus did does not compare to this. 

I think Jesus did exist.  I think he was a very confident, outgoing, media hungry person who wanted to be in the limelight.  Nowadays, people in general attack these sorts of people.  They build them up to knock them down.  The tabloids do this on a daily basis. 

three examples of people in the public eye, and followed  by millions....... was Jesus one of these people thousands of years ago???