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Hey there, sprouts. Today is Sproutouts. Today is Thursday, September 10th, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are beginning our journey as we get to know Jesus

Christ.

And as we form for ourselves the answer to his question to us,

who do you say that I am? We've already talked about how Jesus was a real person who lived

at a real place and a real time. We talked about how Jesus was 100% human, but also 100% God.

And today we are forced to realize that believing both of these things, that Jesus came to

earth, that he was fully God.

If we really believe both of those things, we are forced to make a choice.

Now, to understand what this choice is, we have to go back and look at some other religions

so we know just how different, how radical it is to be a follower of Jesus Christ, to be a Christian, because we have to

make a choice so much more than people that belong to other religions. So there's three big

characters I want you to think about, and these come from other religions. The first one is Moses. Moses is probably the

most important figure in the Jewish faith. He was very important to Jesus Christ as he grew up a

Jew, and he remains the most important figure to Jews today. Moses saw God. God himself gave Moses the Ten Commandments and several other laws

about pretty much everything that a Jew did. He was very important. Now next, let's look at the

character of Muhammad. Muhammad is the great prophet from Muslims.

According to what they believe he had an encounter with God and he came back once again with several laws and rules about how someone should live.

Now the last person is Buddha.

He is a figure in Buddhist religion.

And he also has lots of guidelines and rules for how a person should live. So these three characters, to their credit, they never claimed to be God himself.

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