“If you pedestalize Jesus, you strangle the Gospel at birth. And it has been the tradition in both the Catholic Church and in Protestantism to pass of what I will call an emasculated gospel. Gospel means “good news.” And I cannot for the life of me think what is the good news about the gospel as ordinarily handed down. Because look here: here is the revelation of god in Christ, in Jesus, and we are supposed to follow his life and example without having the unique advantage of being the boss’s son.”

— Alan Watts

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Awful take from Alan. If he couldn’t see what the good news was then he clearly did not grok the new testament

The good news is that you are a son of god, as is Jesus. The Hindu’s and Buddhists have known this to be true for thousands of years.

Sad that so few modern Christians grasp the gospel.

Wrong. The good news is that Christ by his perfect life and his substituuonary death have fully paid the debt we owe and it is offered to us freely. He has absorbed the just wrath of Gid in our place, and we get the just reward he earned--eternal life.

"The chastisement that brought us peace was laid upon him; by his stripes, we are healed."

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>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

[John 1:1-5](http://blb.org/kjv/jhn/1/1-5/), KJV

>Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

[John 14:6](http://blb.org/kjv/jhn/14/6/), KJV

And, perhaps especially:

>...Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

[Philippians 2:5-11](http://blb.org/kjv/phl/2/5-11/), KJV

Gnosticism is the Serpent's hiss.