Jesus the man
It’s so easy when you start to think about Jesus to forget the fact that he was a man, a person. The gospels are full of stuff about Jesus the person and how he felt and what he experienced. I’m not saying this to deny anything else about Jesus but simply that he was a real person. The disciples would have been able to touch Jesus and listen to the tone of his voice. They would have been able to share a joke with Jesus and talked with him as they walked along a road. These are all experiences that are not open to us and so it makes our experience of Jesus that much more distant. We don’t even have a photo of him.
However not being able to see what he looked or like or the tone of his voice does not mean he is not a real person. There are ancestors of mine that I know nothing about save that they must have existed because I do.
The gospels tell us that Jesus felt emotion, that he had friends, that he was sad when his friend died, that he enjoyed to eat and drink, that he knew what it was to be thirsty, that he suffered on the cross.
Don’t ever forget that Jesus was a real person.
