Sep 20, 2021
5 min read
Christianity might be hurting its own cause by turning Jesus into some sort of a holy Harry Potter. In the very early church, in reaching out to Gentiles, some evangelists portrayed the man Jesus as a supernatural being in order to compete with the “god-man” Caesar and the many household gods of the dominant Greek and Roman culture. Obviously, this tactic succeeded; they planted seeds among the Gentiles and the church blossomed. But the tactic also had a lasting negative effect that even today hampers the faith’s position in the world.
