Can you remember a photograph of yourself as a small child? Think o that photograph and add the figure of a boy, the same age and size. let this figure represent Yeshua, whom we call in English "Jesus". No doves, halos or light, no robes. A perfectly normal child. Now, have you changed since that photo was taken? of course. Do you not think Jesus has changed after two thousand years? He has continued to grow greatly in love and wisdom. Most Christians have frozen Him in time. Just like the photo. His crucifixion and resurrection was intended to show us, by example, that we have life without death; that the body dies but the Spirit is eternal. We have frozen Him on the cross and we have chosen the cross which is the symbol of death, for the symbol of Christianity. If we must use a cross, then a small cross with in a circle of rising sun would be more appropriate. The Buddha died of trichinosis. Should we have as the symbol of Buddhism a pork chop?

One thing should be clearly understood. Jesus had no intention of being deified, nor was it his mission to be the saviour of mankind. His mission was to SHOW THE WAY mankind could save itself from the natural consequences of its spiritual ignorance. His teaching could not be simpler, "Love God, and love your brothers and sisters as yourself."

Collectively, we have failed.