# My Amazing Encounters with Jesus Christ

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 2, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774 "2016-03-02T22:47:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/801 "2016-03-15T02:04:37Z")

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My parting words to the op is to find a nice Christian doctor who specializes in alien abductions. I’m told they can work miracles.

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**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/802 "2016-03-15T04:50:05Z")

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> [@Trinopus](#):
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> There is a beautiful description of that idea: God the Novelist.
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> God the Father is the author of the novel.  
> God the Son is the protagonist of the novel.  
> God the Holy Spirit is the sense of identification that the author has for the protagonist.
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> Most writers know this sense. George Lucas has it for Luke Skywalker, and Stephen Spielberg has it for Indiana Jones. This is how we can love our characters deeply – even love them as a part of ourselves – and still do really horrible things to them.
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> Still, if my life is supposed to be an example of this, I think the first draft needs some heavy copy-editing!

God the Holy Spirit is the reader … to say, the man … this is our part of the creation.

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/803 "2016-03-15T09:47:05Z")

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> [@tomndebb](#):
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> At this point, believers are avoiding this thread; non-believers are posting just to mock your statements. Whatever you hoped to accomplish two weeks ago, you have either already accomplished it or have failed so utterly that you will never succeed on this board.

To be fair, some of us are also trying to help him, but it’s pretty clear that approach isn’t working either.

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