ANSWER: JESUS, THE CHRIST

let's dismiss four contenders for the role of final arbiter ... what's wrong with epicurus ... he says everything is subjective ... I becomes the basic unit ... what's wrong with protagoras ... he's the cognitive side to epicurus ... he too drives the soul back into the self ... what's wrong with the stoics ... they say the final reward is reputation and after death fame ... what's wrong with thomas ... he's too cerebral ... he says the final form of the human body keeps the old organs though some now perfected are useless ... digestion and sex ... and he says there are no animals in heaven ... OK so far for the christian these four failures fit the right pattern ... the only true final authority is christ ... but which christ ... certainly the divine christ ... the jewish christ of matthew or the spare christ of mark or luke ... the mystical christ of john or the ethical christ of paul ... there are as many christs as there are christians ... otherwise he'd have no sympathy that is no answer for the contenders dismissed above ... but there is one jesus