WHO IS JESUS?

   Today's blog is not a judgment, but rather an observation.
   In the United States, I stand amazed at the number of people who have been in churches since the days of their infancy.  Many have been faithful in their attendance and church membership for twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty years.
   At the same time, I stand amazed at the number of people, even for decades of church membership, who do not know the first three words of the Holy Bible.
   I stand amazed at the number of church people who cannot quote one verse from the Bible.
   I stand amazed at the number of church people who do not know Psalm 23, or Psalm 100, John 3:16 or John 3:3.
   I stand amazed at the number of church people in the United States who do not believe in the flood of Noah, nor do they know the meaning of the rainbow.
   I stand amazed at the number of church people who believe in evolution and not in creation.
   How many people in churches do not believe in the rapture of the church?
   How many people in churches do not believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ?
   And how many people in churches of the United States do not believe that Christ was raised from the dead?
   Who is Jesus to people in churches today? 
   Is Jesus no more than a myth to people in the same way that Noah's flood is no more than an interesting story of make-believe? 
   Is Jesus no more than a bedtime story for children, such as once upon a time in a land far away?
   Is Jesus no more than a picture of a baby in his mother's arms?
   Would it be fair to say that many people in churches today have no more knowledge about Jesus than they would know had they never been to church at all?
   For people in churches who do not believe in Jesus, what---exactly---do they believe?