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To: Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis
From the sound of your framing, perhaps not by your standards (re: How could God be humble?)

Well, Kolo picked up on my jest, but then he knows me, so it's not really fair. Everything about Christ is humility. The King of Kings was born like a pauper, in a smelly, dark, cold place full of animals, and of a teenage unwed Mother, with no father to claim as His biological parent. He was not a doctor, or a judge, but a carpenter, nothing prestigeous. He was as docile as a lamb, save for the moneychangers and that was understandable.

You see, the Jews looked at Him with that simplistic point of view and thought: if He is the Son of God, He neither looks the part nor does He act as one. Why? Because it is human nature to imagine God to be like those who rule over us -- powerful tyrants, or government officials who pretend to be public "servants" but often abuse their power. Christ demonstrated that God is nothing like that, that our idea of a Tyrant God is not what God is, but instead God is like Christ, forgiving and loving and humble.

This is why we call Him our Savior. Without Him we could never follow in God's steps, because our concept of God is nothing even remote as what Christ presented. And without Christ as an Example to follow, we would never find the way, the truth and the light.

Pagans worshiped powerful gods. Even the Jews cold not accept a humble God. To quote the High Priest "If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross." (Mat 27:40) and "If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him." (Mat 27:42).

Why? Because we all have this erroneous idea that God is just like us. He is not. Jesus was nothing like any of us. There was not an ounce of pride in Him, no matter what they did to Him. Imagine, the King of Kings being humiliated and spat on as He was beaten and tortured. If any of us tried to do that people would say "Fool, do something!"

2,275 posted on 02/03/2006 5:29:43 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
You see, the Jews looked at Him with that simplistic point of view and thought: if He is the Son of God, He neither looks the part nor does He act as one.

Yes, I agree. The Jews were expecting a warrior Prince who would slay His enemies with a mighty sword. Instead, Christ prayed for His enemies. This bewildered many Jews.

2,331 posted on 02/06/2006 4:21:35 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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