Most Christians wouldn’t be comfortable describing Jesus this way. But for me, it was a big step up from believing that Jesus was a myth. Accepting Jesus as an actual historical figure whose teachings created the largest spiritual movement in history gave me a relatively reasonable starting point for my decision to follow him. With this in mind, I wrote an axiom to set a “floor” for what I accepted about Jesus: Jesus is at least a man so connected to God that He was called the Son of God, and the largest religious movement in human history is centered around His teachings. Even if this is all
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