Some people live to be offended.
Some people live to be offended.
Many are 'offended' by this:
NIV Matthew 13:53-57
53. When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there.
54. Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?" they asked.
55. "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?
56. Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"
57. And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor."KJV Matthew 11:6
And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
KJV Matthew 24:10
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
KJV Matthew 26:31
Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
Stones......
NIV Luke 20:17-18
17. Jesus looked directly at them and asked, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: "`The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone ' ?
18. Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."
NIV Acts 4:11-12
11. He is "`the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone. '
12. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
NIV Romans 9:30-33
30. What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
31. but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
32. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone."
33. As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
NIV 1 Peter 2:4-8
4. As you come to him, the living Stone--rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him--
5. you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6. For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
7. Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone, "
8. and, "A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall."
Dennis Prager once said that there are basically 2 kinds of people: the easily offended and the not-so-easily offended and that you could pretty much tell a person's political preferences by which of those categories s/he fits into.