Sooooo good Pastor Ethan..beautifully delivered, spirt spoken.. thank you 🌟💛💫💛🦘

Incredible message, Ethan. Incredible.

Thanks for your thoughtful and sincere sermon. As a life-long born again Christian, the issue, in my mind, is not whether Jesus existed or even whether he was crucified under Pontius Pilot, as you point out even Non-Christian sources corroborate that fact, the issue is whether Jesus was the Incarnate word of God who was born of a virgin and was resurrected from the dead. The fact that the first written Gospel, Mark-written decades after his death (by someone other that “Mark”)-fails even to mention any of these essential historical “facts” raises grave questions about their historicity. (Indeed, Mark suggests that Jesus was not exalted until his baptism by John the Baptist.) Much of what we have come to believe about Jesus’s divinity comes from John, which, as with Mark, wasn’t written until decades later-again by someone other than an eye witness. The evolution over time of Jesus’s divinity (from what scholars call a “low” Christology to a “high” Christology) should give all Christians pause. The fact that the New Testament as we know it has so much extant “witnesses” (eg, scraps of papyrus) is largely a result of the Roman Empire essentially declaring Christianity the state religion in order to consolidate its power in the region. I highly recommend Bart Ehrman’s, “How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee,” if you are interested in investigating this further.

Absolutely loved this message. I grew up on this unapologetic preaching of the word and The way Pastor Ethan presented the concept that the word of God is living was perfect. Well done Pastor Ethan. My favorite sermon from Red Rocks Church.