Becoming Like Jesus Christ is Not Magic

First and foremost, let us get this fact out of the way, which is, neither you nor I are Jesus. Neither you nor I ever will become Jesus.

If either you or I conceivably can become Jesus, we arrive at the contradiction that Jesus is not unique, is not the only begotten Son of God (John 3:16), meaning we might as well start chanting “uumm” and forget all about the Bible.

Clearly, chanting of uumm at our own timing and discretion is much easier than having to remember to pray at specific times five times a day. If I have to throw the Bible out, I might as well go for the easiest path to God, the path that does not require giving of monies (offering) to anyone else as demonstration of piety; that path I think is, ‘discretionary chanting of uumm and meditation.’

If we believe in Jesus Christ, the spiritually correct view of ourselves is, we are adopted by God as (younger) brothers to Jesus Christ, yet with the caveat that all younger brothers are created equal, are equal in standing before God.

The spiritual fact that all younger brothers are equal before God, Father of Jesus Christ, is evident in the following words by Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 1:1–2…