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Jesus wasn't very nice, and that's a good thing
American Thinker ^ | 12/25/2019 | Taylor Day

Posted on 12/25/2019 5:25:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Jesus wasn't nice, and I can say this with absolute certainty.  Therefore, I get disgusted when I see a lot of churches and preachers trying to emasculate the teachings of Christ into a simple "just be nice" doctrine.  When a Christian dares deviate from this, liberals pounce and call someone's faith into question, as we saw last week with Christianity Today's attack on President Trump.  That is a deep perversion of the truth and the Lion of Judah's message.

Nice people don't make enemies, and Jesus Christ had enemies in excess.  King Herod believed an infant Jesus to be a usurper.  The Pharisees hated Jesus since His teachings often contradicted their actions.  Because cancel culture was also a thing in the first century, the Pharisees ultimately saw their popularity plummet and wanted revenge.  The Romans wanted punishment for calling Himself a King while the Jews called for his crucifixion because He was nicknamed the Son of God.

Even today, Jesus is attacked.  Democrats like Speaker Pelosi claim to be Catholic while their own policies like abortions and failing to prosecute criminals go against the core of His teachings.  It's no wonder the vast majority of atheists vote Democrat.  If He were alive today, I have no doubts that modern liberals would boycott Him.

"After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him." —John 7:1.

Today, spineless bishops use passionless sermons to preach about acceptance and forgiveness.  Sure, these teachings undoubtedly have a place.  With that said, in churches all across the U.S, you'll be hard pressed to hear anything about the moral teachings that matter like conversion, virtue, and sexual morality.  On the off-chance that you do, they're minimalized and said nicely


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To: SeekAndFind

I call it the Jimmy Carter School of Forgiveness. Just forgive everyone anything they do because it feels (and looks) good.
Jesus, however, hinged forgiveness on repentance.
‘Go and sin no more.’
‘Go’ just doesn’t cut it.


21 posted on 12/25/2019 6:42:21 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: SeekAndFind
If He were alive today

He IS alive today. He lives in every one of us. In Him we move and breathe and have our being. Point well taken though. There are times when we need to upturn the tables of the money launderers...upp, oops... I mean money changers.

22 posted on 12/25/2019 6:49:02 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Olog-hai

in both Mathew and Thomas then actually as many sayings are across multiple gospels.


23 posted on 12/25/2019 7:01:12 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Olog-hai

See
https://sacred-texts.com/chr/thomas.htm


24 posted on 12/25/2019 7:04:36 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Yes; lots of spurious “gospels” include material from the real Gospels.


25 posted on 12/25/2019 7:08:32 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: SeekAndFind

He left this world as a lamb but will return as a lion. So..ya better be good.


26 posted on 12/25/2019 7:26:25 AM PST by HighSierra5
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Nice people don’t make enemies …
Of course they do. How long did non-enmity exist between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf (Schicklgruber) when the former was running to the media boasting of “peace for our time”?
27 posted on 12/25/2019 7:32:14 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Texas Eagle

Jesus is more alive than any human being, even independent of us.


28 posted on 12/25/2019 7:33:00 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: DoodleBob

In my view, modern attempts to reduce Christ, snd the crucifixion, and above all the resurrection from actual historical events to metaphorical and allegorical stories, reduces Christianity to just another philosophy, that can be safely ignored like any other.


29 posted on 12/25/2019 7:42:41 AM PST by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: marktwain
I’ve noticed that we are increasingly living in a Bunyan-like allegory, with the frequency these things are happening. Look around and be amazed. The three-times Democratic “no” vote on the floor of the convention, the names some of these godless miscreants have, etc.

An apostate baptist church in my city which garnered a lot of attention by caving to the homosexual agenda is named “Broadway” baptist. A sodomite presidential candidate’s name even harkens to a favorite anatomy of the homosexual.

The misnamed “Center for Constitutional Rights,” a queer activist organization which attacked pro-family minister Scott Lively with a “crimes against humanity” charge has the ominous address:
666 Broadway

This is all just too frequent to be coincidence.

30 posted on 12/25/2019 7:53:38 AM PST by fwdude (Poverty is nearly always a mindset, which canÂ’t be cured by cash.)
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To: Olog-hai

“spurious ‘gospels’” often sound to me more true than those chosen to represent the four elements and compass directions, but one would have to read them for one’s self, as I have, to make that judgment - they aren’t all that different.

Both Thomas and Mathew were written around the same time 150-200 AD


31 posted on 12/25/2019 8:39:29 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: SeekAndFind
Jesus socked it to the Pharisees all right!

President Trump did the same thing! MAGA!

32 posted on 12/25/2019 9:08:43 AM PST by Savage Beast (The curse of high intelligence: Having to watch the morons try everything that obviously won't work.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Jesus wasn't nice, and I can say this with absolute certainty.

Then, Taylor, you're mis-reading the Bible.

The only people Jesus weren't nice to were the Pharisees and Sadducees. They were holding themselves up as the religious elite and turning God's house into a den of thieves.

In every instance with His encounters with everyone else Jesus was kind and forgiving. He was honest with them, but he was nice.

33 posted on 12/25/2019 9:11:11 AM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

I think, what the author is saying is that Jesus is not “nice” the same way the modern, secular world defines “nice”.


34 posted on 12/25/2019 9:12:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: PIF

RE: Both Thomas and Mathew were written around the same time 150-200 AD

FROM BRITANNICA:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gospel-According-to-Matthew

Matthew the Evangelist, one of the 12 Apostles, described in the text as a tax collector (10:3). The Gospel According to Matthew was composed in Greek, probably sometime after 70 CE, with evident dependence on the earlier Gospel According to Mark.


35 posted on 12/25/2019 9:14:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Other sources put it much later


36 posted on 12/25/2019 9:17:55 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

“Thomas” actually dates from the second century AD and is one of the “Gnostic” pseudo-gospels. If it sounds “more true” to you than the canonical Gospels, then I urge you to some serious self-examination, with all due respect.


37 posted on 12/25/2019 9:23:17 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: PIF

Those who believe that Matthew’s gospel was written 2 centuries after Christ ought to consider this...

Our early church fathers had quite a bit to say about the four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Of the four Gospels alone, there are 19,368 citations by the church fathers from the late first century on.


38 posted on 12/25/2019 9:35:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Olog-hai
Sorry, just not a true believer like some. I like to think for myself not have some long dead religious leaders declare what I can or cannot read or believe.

The whole picking of the Gospels was an exercise in 4th Century religious politics now foisted on the world as the only truths.

The present day church is nothing like the original concept.

My church

39 posted on 12/25/2019 9:43:56 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Knocking over the tables of the money changers in the temple pretty much sums it up.

JoMa


40 posted on 12/25/2019 10:05:01 AM PST by joma89
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