Reassessing...

Could it be that Christianity, as a whole, has collectively created Jesus as a projection of all that is within us or, another way, have projected on to Jesus all that is within us collectively? In other words, are we making this up as we go? It is quite possible. Perhaps, the person of Jesus is the perfect object onto which we project all that is within us. Perhaps he is that 'perfection' that we all seem to have some grasp of, loosely defined, yet that drives us or attracts us.

Yet there is something very real about the experience, a corporate body in unison on the same projection, if we say that's what it is, that is difficult to explain. Is it simply a collective madness, as many claim, group think on an unprecedented scale?

But from within (which, of course, cries out 'cult'), it just does not appear how this could so.

By what criteria do we judge whether or not it is all a delusion, wishful thinking, a cult? And who judges the objectivity of such criteria? Men? The Bible? Doctrine? How do we know?