Character Discussion: Harry and Sirius

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 124270


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Hans Andréa <ibotsjfvxfst at y...> 
wrote:

Hans:
> The message is first of all that every seeker has the
> potential to become a divine human being, an eternal
> Son of God, imperishable and free of death, sorrow and
> suffering. The New Testament calls this Son of God
> Jesus; Jo calls him Harry.

Geoff:
I had hoped to keep out of this discussion because I feared it is 
veering towards being off-topic but I cannot let this statement go 
unchallenged.

In John 3:16, the Bible records Jasus as saying "For God so loved the 
world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him 
shall not perish but have eternal life." (New International Version)

Note that Jesus is called the "one and only Son". Jesus was, to a 
believing Christian, God seen in human form. A seeker does not become 
an eternal Son of God - in other words a "Jesus". I have disagreed 
with Hans before when he has said that Harry is both everyman and 
Christ.

According to Christian belief, we have the potential to become a 
child of God - which has a different connotation to the "one and only 
Son of God" - if we believe that Christ died on the Cross for us and 
rose again to give us the power to be free of death, sorrow and 
suffering. This is not the same as becoming a "Jesus". From a 
Christian perspective (the position from which I speak), this is 
heresy and is a distortion of what is recorded in the Bible.

I stand by what I have previously said on various occasions that I 
see Harry as an everyman on his journey through life, a journey which 
we all must make on the strength of our own decisions and beliefs.