All four agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality.
One is obliged to say, “Here was a man.
This could not have been ied.”
But just as the personality of Gautama Buddha has been distorted and obscured by the stiff squatting figure, the gilded idol of later Buddhism, so one feels that the lean and strenuous personality of Jesus is mubsp;wronged by the uy and ventionality that a mistaken reverenbsp;has impod upon his figure in modern Christian art.
Jesus was a penniless teacher, who wandered about the dusty sun-bit try of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always reprented , bed and sleek, in spotless raiment, erebsp;and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air.
This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who ot distinguish the core of the story from the oral and unwi additions of the unintelligently devout.
We are left, if we do strip this record of the difficult accessories, with the figure of a being, very human, very ear and passionate, capable of swift anger, and teag a new and simple and profound doe—namely, the universal loving Fatherhood of God and the ing of the Kingdom of Heaven.
All four agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality.
One is obliged to say, “Here was a man.
This could not have been ied.”
But just as the personality of Gautama Buddha has been distorted and obscured by the stiff squatting figure, the gilded idol of later Buddhism, so one feels that the lean and strenuous personality of Jesus is mubsp;wronged by the uy and ventionality that a mistaken reverenbsp;has impod upon his figure in modern Christian art.
Jesus was a penniless teacher, who wandered about the dusty sun-bit try of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always reprented , bed and sleek, in spotless raiment, erebsp;and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air.
This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who ot distinguish the core of the story from the oral and unwi additions of the unintelligently devout.
We are left, if we do strip this record of the difficult accessories, with the figure of a being, very human, very ear and passionate, capable of swift anger, and teag a new and simple and profound doe—namely, the universal loving Fatherhood of God and the ing of the Kingdom of Heaven.