John the Baptist again

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 124755


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "antoshachekhonte" 
<antoshachekhonte at y...> wrote:

> Antosha:
> I think the point that Hans is trying to make, Geoff, is not that 
> Jesus didn't exist, 

Geoff:
Then how does Hans explain his remark...
"Jesus is not a real person, but a force within a person  
who goes the Path."

I think that Tonks has got much nearer to what is true.

"What I am seeing in Harry is the Christ in him. Harry is not Christ
himself, but the Christ is in him. This for a Christian happens at
baptism. (We are baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus
the Christ and He lives within us. Some like Geoff would say it
happen when one is *born again*.) The point being that there is
*something* in Harry and that *something* is the Risen Christ that
lives in each Christian."

This /does not/, as Tonks underlines, make us Christ. It means that, 
as I said in my last post, the Holy Spirit lives in us.

John puts it another way in his gospel:

"Yet to all who received him,to those who believed in his name, he 
gave the right to become the children of God" (John 1:12 New 
International Version)...

...for example, myself, Tonks, several other members of the group who 
have exchanged views off-line with me and also Harry et al. (if they 
want that right in the Wizarding World).