What Does Jesus Mean To You

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3. Who does Jesus mean to you? To me, Jesus is my loving older brother rather than a “fatherly” figure like God is. I see Jesus as someone who I can talk to with comfort in comparison to God. I think that this is because God is depicted as a god and someone who is much more powerful than we, humans, are. On the other hand, Jesus came down to Earth through birth and lived in a world filled with sin and temptation (which he experienced with the devil! So he knows what we live through on a daily basis). Not only this, Jesus is someone that I can talk to in my prayers (I’ve noticed that I have begun to pray more often-at my own leisure, and not my parents- over the course of this course, especially after discussing the importance of Job in regards

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