"The deconstruction of Greatness"

Jesus was born a man. Seen through the eyes of a Christian, these words hold a different meaning--he was the son of God since the beginning of time, and then took the form of a man to free us of our sins.

To all else, Jesus was a man who did great things to become the son of God--a fact, a historical figure who achieved greatness.

In the latter, we stand a better opportunity to see the greater merit in his journey as a fellow human, in his quest to become one with the Holy Father. These lessons are more attainable for you and I in our flesh, than if we consider the former statement, and take him to be the son of God right from the very beginning. Nothing is impossible to God, so where is the merit in the very journey. There is no great transformation.

It is the suffering inflicted upon him leading to his crucifixion that connects him to the larger sentimentality of Christian believers. The feeling of oneness with the son of God, who had no reason to become a man and then take on all his sufferings for the greater cause of freeing man of all his sins.

This roots back to the story of genesis, of Adam and Eve. This is where the concept of original sin is planted. This is key to this feeling of guilt for perfectly natural and instinctive behavior. The concept of Heaven and Hell, of eternal life after death in one of the two leads to the heightening of one's stake. Even if this were false, and since there is no way to prove it one way or another, the stakes are so high that one would not want to take the risk. Hence, it is better to play the rules and hope to be in Heaven than in Hell.

These concepts intertwined makes for the psyche of a Christian to perfectly welcome the idea that the only way to Heaven is through Jesus, and hence the Bible etches the greatest Hero known to man. What greater Hero can there be, than the one who saves you from eternal damnation in Hell?