Sugar wrote:What if he was born from a woman who had had sex?
What if he had a human father?
What if he had loved a woman and married her?
What if he sired children?
What if he acknowledged a spritual father and mother?
What if he didn't walk on water?
What if he didn't die on a cross?
What if he didn't rise from the dead?
What if he got sick, cried with frustration, and cursed when he stubbed his toe?
What if, despite all of this, he was a man of great intelligence and insight with a profound message to share? What if he experienced all of the frailties and weaknesses of an ordinary man, and yet faced them with more conviction and fortitude than any man or woman had before him?
Would you love and revere him as much?
Can humans really aspire to emulate a god after all?
Nice one Sugar...
you have more or less just described the credo of the Arians. a christian sect that has been ruthlessly opressed as heretical by genocide since the 4th century. both the catholic church and the orthodox church have a lot to lose if people start to deny the dual nature of JC.
So I would keep my head down if I were you.
by the way - Isaac Newton was a believer in the Arian heresy too but only ever refered to it in very veiled terms.
you could always go one further and step into the manichean or bogomil heresies by denying the nature of the virgin birth - ooops you already did that. next you'd need to suggest the possibility that god is simply a power that might be the good principal or it's opposite the evil principal, why not try both?
personally I think that someone has overlooked something that is staring us all in the face - Jesus is not a name for a man but a very old word that predates christianity by several thousand years.
let me explain...
in all but english speaking countries the letter J is pronounced Y.
the pope himself still refers to jesus as yesu or yesus (in latin or german).
if you try saying it you will find that the middle S naturaly becomes more like a Z.
so we have YeZus
or if we seperate the natural stress of the word "Ye Zus"
If you pronounce this
Ye Zus out loud - you will be uttering exactly the same sound that the worshipers of Zeus used in praise of Zeus two thousand years before pontius pilot.
YE = the. the one. the almighty
Zus = Zeus (who also was refered to as deus)
Here we have an upstart sect - the christians, co-opting an existing deity - widely known as the king of the gods - without even changing his name. all they had to do then was write a few stories about the fictional geezer.
strangely enough our image of christ is also heavily influenced by the fact that the first ever representation of him was a copy of the statue of Zeus at olympia.
Not that I want to undermine the humanity of the message that your post contains. Its just that all the while we can only aspire to emulate god in the mould of the latter christian church then we are choosing to limit ourselves to 1600 years of dogma that is primarily concerned with proving everyone else wrong. maybe after all it would be better to emulate Zeus.
Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Love like you've never been hurt.
and add a bit of text to the end of each post so you seem witty.
That's terrible. Hope it all gets sorted soon, intergirl. 
