In the refreshing book Mister God, This Is Anna complains the small Anna about her religion teacher: "You can never be greater than God, it's always just the people less." Critical View this finding applies to Christianity as a whole. In order for the Christian message truly shine, man must first be slaughtered properly. I can just read again the letters of Paul of Tarsus and with him you see these tactics very well.
This then goes like this: Between God and Man is an ominous rift. All of humanity is tainted with the stain of Adam's disobedience and entangled in sin. Recovery from this entanglement brings only death of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus, the Christ, dies representative as an atonement for the sins of mankind (1 Cor 15.3 f). For today's perception of such an interpretation of Jesus' death is difficult to understand. The addressees of Paul, this interpretation makes sense. It follows on from the Hellenistic idea of the noble death. After this performance is the violent or forced death of a noble people, such as the death of Socrates, a meritorious deed for the community.
Paul uses this construction to the Greeks and the Romans executed Jesus of Nazareth as rebels make tasty as a savior can. For this to work, however, Paul must first draw the humanity in the most dark colors. Man is made small, so that God seems even bigger! This view of the relationship between God and man, however, is in stark contrast to the view of Jesus. His message is quite different. The reign of God is at hand, is saying that God is within you at work! He deals with parental care even about the little sparrow and the lilies of the field. Yes, he even has counted every hair on our head. He straightens the bent, makes the lame walk and the blind see again, "Your sins are forgiven." God depends on the kids, instead of press in the dust. God wants the people not small, so that he himself stands there all the greater. Or what about the people in a psalm: ". Only a little below the angels you asked him,"
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