“But why Jesus? Why not follow one of the many other good teachers and spiritual gurus out there? Because Jesus, we're told, is the only one in whom God and humanity have been irrevocably joined together. When the 318 bishops gathered at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, this is precisely what they hammered out: Jesus is the restored communion of heaven and earth; he is the coming together of God and man; and he is the Second Adam, who, by his obedience unto death, rescued us from the death brought on by our own disobedience.”