"Then the interviewer marvels, "The Son of God who takes away the sins of the world. I wish I could believe in that."
"The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death," replies Bono. "It's not our own good works that get us through the gates of Heaven."
The interviewer marvels some more: "That's a great idea, no denying it. Such great hope is wonderful, even though it's close to lunacy, in my view. Christ has His rank among the world's great thinkers. But Son of God, isn't that farfetched?"
Bono comes back, "Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: He was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets, be they Elijah, Muhammad, Buddha, or Confucius. But actually Christ doesn't allow you that. He doesn't let you off that hook. Christ says, No. I'm not saying I'm a teacher, don't call me teacher. I'm not saying I'm a prophet. I'm saying: 'I'm the Messiah.' I'm saying: 'I am God incarnate.' . . . So what you're left with is either Christ was who He said He was—the Messiah—or a complete nutcase. . . . The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me that's farfetched."
What is most interesting in this exchange is the reaction of the interviewer, to whom Bono is, in effect, witnessing. This hip rock journalist starts by scorning what he thinks is Christianity. But it is as if he had never heard of grace, the atonement, the deity of Christ, the gospel. And he probably hadn't. But when he hears what Christianity is actually all about, he is amazed."
I do feel this person do not know good G-D!!!!You do know total truth!!!!I do not like U-2 thank you all what do you think?
I disagree with him. I for one believe in an eye for an eye. I also believe that when you do harm to others, it does come back at you. It hits you when you're lest expecting it too. God does things on his own timetable, not ours.
I believe Jesus Was a teacher. I don't understand how he can say that.
He's speaking about Islam in this case....The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me that's farfetched."
I need to clarify that. It should have been...'Bono said Jesus was not a teacher...I said he was, and I don't understand how he can make that statement.
You apparently can't read.
Bono is saying that Jesus is not just a teacher, not just a prophet etc. like many say.
He claimed he was the Son of God, and if he was not, he was crazy.
He advances the argument that the world could not be transformed by a nutcase who was clearly wrong.
The news here isn't Bono's spirituality, which is well-documented, but rather they atheism of a media member.
Which isn't really news, come to think of it.