I was thinking about a year ago, that if you were to travel around the world and try to figure out who was the most famous person ever, I do not think you would find anyone as well known as Christ.
My reasoning is that I doubt people in central Africa know of Buddha, nor do people in remote villages of East Europe and very unlikely do people from uncontacted tribes around the world would recognize the meaning of an illustrated Buddha, but missionaries even in those places have made them know the name Christ. There are people that have not heard of Christ, but if they have not then I doubt that they have known the name of other religious figures or politicians, or movie stars.
Even a person not familiar with the ideology of the New Testament would be curious if they began to use the Gregorian calendar what the date 1bc signified and upon learning the meaning of the abbreviation would know about Christ.
I am not Christian, but the idea is interesting to me that there is no person nearly as famous as Christ. Even among all the people that speak English, I was curious thinking that maybe the majority of English speakers know the name George Washington or Trump these days...even people that speak other languages, but I still think it would be a leap to assume that someone never heard of Christ but only heard about Trump. In fact people would assume he was a Christian as ironic as that is.
What do you think that means? Nothing?
I've pointed out before how unique it is that people not even remotely interested in reading or learning about Egypt know the name Ra. Of course he is the Sun god, everyone knows that. Yet how many names of other ancient gods or religions do people know? Other than Yahweh, Allah, or vaguely Gaia or even fewer know of Yggdrasil but they generally are not well recognized by most people. And who knows why exactly? Maybe the explanation for Ra is the fact that the Bible has the book of Exodus but Ra is not mentioned in the Bible. Mazda cars are named after Ahura Mazda but I think no one gets that, which is funny because that's about the only other example I can think of.
My reasoning is that I doubt people in central Africa know of Buddha, nor do people in remote villages of East Europe and very unlikely do people from uncontacted tribes around the world would recognize the meaning of an illustrated Buddha, but missionaries even in those places have made them know the name Christ. There are people that have not heard of Christ, but if they have not then I doubt that they have known the name of other religious figures or politicians, or movie stars.
Even a person not familiar with the ideology of the New Testament would be curious if they began to use the Gregorian calendar what the date 1bc signified and upon learning the meaning of the abbreviation would know about Christ.
I am not Christian, but the idea is interesting to me that there is no person nearly as famous as Christ. Even among all the people that speak English, I was curious thinking that maybe the majority of English speakers know the name George Washington or Trump these days...even people that speak other languages, but I still think it would be a leap to assume that someone never heard of Christ but only heard about Trump. In fact people would assume he was a Christian as ironic as that is.
What do you think that means? Nothing?
I've pointed out before how unique it is that people not even remotely interested in reading or learning about Egypt know the name Ra. Of course he is the Sun god, everyone knows that. Yet how many names of other ancient gods or religions do people know? Other than Yahweh, Allah, or vaguely Gaia or even fewer know of Yggdrasil but they generally are not well recognized by most people. And who knows why exactly? Maybe the explanation for Ra is the fact that the Bible has the book of Exodus but Ra is not mentioned in the Bible. Mazda cars are named after Ahura Mazda but I think no one gets that, which is funny because that's about the only other example I can think of.
