The Two Surveys

My friend Scot McKnight is a New Testament professor in Chicago. For years, he taught a class on Jesus, and he would start every semester with two surveys. The first was a set of questions about the student: what they like, dislike, believe, and so on. The second was the same set of questions, but this time about Jesus. He told me that 90 percent of the time, the answers were exactly the same. That’s telling, isn’t it?

That’s telling, isn’t it? Here’s how you know if you’ve created God in your own image: he agrees with you on everything. He hates all the people you hate. He voted for…