Historians have no problem ascribing success of the Constitutional Convention to the influence of George Washington and Ben Franklin. The proceedings had often been so fractious that Franklin despaired ever reaching common ground. He later commented that viewing the picture of the sun on the wall behind Washington’s chair made him wonder: did it symbolize a Setting Sun for the colonies? Only with agreement reached did he have confidence it symbolized the Rising Sun of a nation.
The same historians who understand the political influence of human leaders discount the spiritual influence of Jesus. How could the Gospels writers ascribe so much to him? Surely his disciples, in an excess of zeal, overstated his nature. That reveals the same lack of objectivity regarding Jesus that they blindly accept about lives of secular figures. It’s the old satanic lie: only secular history needs to be accurate in detail; sacred history is by faith. Which makes GOD irrelevant. This writer has written four of more volumes called Their Own Best Defense. Each details why the disciples, as men of their age, could ever create the MAN of the AGES Jesus Christ proved to be. And, indeed, knowing themselves incapable of teaching and doing what he achieved, they admit their inability to create him. Not letting the facts get in their way, however, skeptics reduce Jesus to mythical status while elevating his believers to demi-god status. It’s the same prejudice Alexander Graham Bell found from professional inventors. Except Jesus Christ alone could have chosen such a group of misfits as disciples and kept keep them together based on their common faith in him. Just as Jesus Christ alone could appeal to a broadly-based leadership corps in Antioch of Syria and organize them into the spiritual fathers of the first missionary endeavor into Gentile territory Acts 13:1-3. Fini
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