Faith in Action. "Pilate: What is truth?The Passion of the Christ." Our Faith in Action (February, 2004).
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For Pilate, the ends justify the means. He wants to keep peace, to prevent civil unrest. In his final analysis, the death of an innocent man is an acceptable price to achieve his goal.
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Pilate believes Christ is innocent, but still allows him to be tortured and killed. Why didn’t he release him?
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Pi;ate didn’t want another jewish uprising. He hated where he had been sent, and didn’t want to deal with jewish complaints or problems. He was trying to make a name for himself in Rome and didn’t want anything atanding in his way.
He had Christ crucified because there was something different about Him, something that frightened him. A proposed King.
I watched a show lastnight that said Pilate was murderous and had crucified so many people that he was recalled to Rome where he committed suicide.
Did it work out?
Ask Homer Simpson. I mean, let's be real.
Do not forget Piliate’s wife, she had a very, very bad dream about all that was going on.
Pilate asked Jesus “What is truth”. Interestingly enough, Jesus has just answered that question to his Apostles hours earlier in the upper room. In his High Priestly Prayer Jesus petitions God concerning his Apostles with the words, “Sanctify them in the truth; you word is truth.” (Jn 17:17) Thus, the answer to Pilate’s question is quite clear. What it truth? - God’s word is truth. The only truth.
We see the weasels of today, talking about "Gay Marriage."
They are swayed by polls, media questions, and propaganda.
Someone who is firm in the belief that God is real, all Truth comes from God, and the Word of God is Truth will have no problem with the question of homosexuality.
God says homosexuality is wrong, therefore it is.
Gee, how hard was that?
The ultimate problem is that the vast, vast majority of this world rejects God and His authority.
That is why Christ told us the path to Hell is wide.
Just goes to show you that post-modernism was alive and well 2000 years ago.
The question that I have is why did the Jewish people not see and accept Jesus as God after he rose from the dead?
I realize many Jews became followers of Christ and there were corrupt Jewish leaders at the time of Christ.
This seems a logical and spirtual question that every Jew should ask himself.