Nicodemus

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 completed the agency’s seventh commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday after splashing down safely in a Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. The international crew of four spent 199 days in orbit.

The Crew-7 mission lifted off at 3:27 a.m. Aug. 26, 2023, on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. About 30 hours later, Dragon docked to the Harmony module’s space-facing port. Crew-7 undocked at 11:20 a.m. Monday, March 11, to begin the trip home.

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Nicodemus

There has always been an interesting slant on Christ and Christianity, particularly in academic circles, that Christ was a profound thinker, a great humanist, not divine in any way but a great man. They probably haven't read as far as the recent gospel where Christ actually has a dialogue with Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin. This is the first of three times Nicodemus is mentioned in the Gospel of John. (The second time he appears is when he reminds the other members of the Sanhedrin that a man must be first heard before he is condemned. The third time was when Jesus was killed and Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes to prepare Jesus’ body for burial.)

Christ is direct. He is the Son of God and the Redeemer, "so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

Is there some context you can imagine where such a claim could fit comfortably in the thesis that Christ was only "a great man?" Either He was a lot more or a lot less.