If Jesus had come to earth for the first time today, how would the rest of the world find out about it? Would it be the same as when he did come over 2000 years ago? I'm thinking not. When he came to live with humans the first time, people told each other in person (which would probably still happen) and some (very well educated people) wrote each other letters which were then sent by messenger (on foot or maybe horse) to the recipient. We know that some letters were written and some people wrote things about Jesus down just to keep a record of it, but in reality, this was not very useful to most of the world because most people couldn't read or write. Beyond the fact that this method of transmission for the gospel would be much more effective these days because people can read, I think the method of transmission would also be completely different. I can't really imagine many people meeting Jesus tomorrow and writing a letter or a book about it (at least not until they realized they might be able to make money off a book). So how would it actually happen today?
If you met Jesus today, wouldn't you text your friends and post on Facebook and Twitter about this Jesus dude you met today how interesting he was? You might want to let all your friends know about the cool guy you met today and how he is trying to change the world, but you would definitely not do it by writing a book. I mean really, if you had just watched him knock over the tables and shelves in the gift shop of your local mall-church, wouldn't you record it on your phone and post it to YouTube?
There would be bad grammar and incorrect science (because most people don't understand correct science) all over in it, but would that make the message less true? If you mentioned that the force of Jesus pushing on the table was greater than the force of the table pushing on him (incorrect) , would that mean that your message about who Jesus is and what he is trying to do can't be trusted? Sure the medium of communication matters and must be taken into account when reading and interpreting the information, but does it affect the truth of the message?
