Perhaps no one subject has aroused a strong interest and contention in the world's religions more than the deity of the Christ. While Christianity has continued to propound the idea of a Son of God, and to predicate its highly exceptional teachings on this concept, all other various religious groups and even religious schools of thoughts have held strong and divergent views on the issue of whether the Lord God actually has a Son or not. Most non-Christian groups are flabbergasted that Christians teach and trumpet a concept as strange and as questionable as the Lord God having a Son. They have neither seen the need for this, nor could they conceive the idea of this in view of the fact that God is supposed to be one. By this then, the concept of a Christ as Son of God becomes highly questionable and intriguing, so much so that Christianity has been most repeatedly contested on the basis of this idea. For many non-Christians who would want to change their religions on grounds of lack of satisfaction and incompleteness, perhaps the whole idea of a Son of God in Christianity constitutes the strongest reason for holding back, and has given Christian detractors impetus to dissuade many of their own adherents against switching to Christianity. The fact that many, if not all other religions but Christianity have no idea of a Son of God in their scriptures, has frustrated the knowledge and spread of the truth from a larger percentage of the world than what is currently the case. Islamic ideas, Buddhist, Hinduism and a host of other non-Christian related religions propagating God, have concepts of God that scream against the Christian position; which suggests polytheism, especially for a religion which paradoxically beats its chest about a strong position in monotheism. What is your position on the Christ? Is He the Son of God or not? 41 Others said, This is the Christ . But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? 43 So there was a division among the people because of him. 47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? (John 7) The conflict arising from whether the Christ is the Son of God or the idea that it is a Christian aberration has been increasingly heating up, and is taking an uncanny dimension. What position do you hold? Is your position founded on credible evidence or what you get from questionable sources. Have you bothered to know and to consider other positions and to find out whether in verity your position is the right one. Have you also bothered to know why those who hold contrary views to yours are inclined to their views? The Deity Conflict is one book that has harnessed the various views of the world´s foremost religious groups on the conflict arising from whether the most outstanding personage in human history qualifies as Son of God or is just a human phenomenon imbued with supernatural powers.
About the Author: Godfrey Okoro Godfrey is an evangelist who has written quite a number of books of both Christian and secular orientations. His greater inclination is to his Christian publications which he uses to pursue his greatest love - evangelism. Godfrey sees evangelism as the greatest medium to propagate the truth in today's Christianity that is repetitively embracing extraneous ideas. He has held many positions of importance in the church, and has been a member of some church groups. Thus he may be defined as experienced in many matters relating to the church. Yet Godfrey finds this experience insufficient when compared to the time he spends reading the Bible, from which the Lord has been blessing him with remarkable insights. Godfrey was a victim of the influence of erroneous church doctrine, and understands the multi-dimensional negative implications of this. He therefore makes every effort to save his brethren from the snares of church bigotry. A brilliant writer and author of many books, Godfrey Okoro Godfrey, has continued to pursue his passion for truth in a world of many contradictory religious views, that has come to make religion a gate-way to hell. With many adherents blinded by faith, most of which is unfounded, Godfrey embraces the world´s religions with the empiricism of the objectivity that the Lord God wants man to exercise, to be able to sieve the truth in a world ruled by religious bigotry.