Posted on 01/28/2021 2:20:55 PM PST by metmom
There were ten thousand or more reasons for people to love Jesus and not one reason to hate him. The four Gospels portray him as kind, patient, long-suffering, full of tenderness, forgiving, not willing that one person should perish. He is called a shepherd, a teacher, a brother, a light in darkness, a physician, an advocate, a reconciler. Jesus gave no cause whatsoever that he should be hated by anyone. So why did the world hate Christ, both then and now? He promised to deliver the people from their chains of darkness and set men everywhere free from all satanic power. However, what we Christians see as a holy gift of deliverance and liberty, the world sees as a form of bondage. They love their sins and have no desire to be free from them.
“You call that freedom?” the nonbeliever asks. “No, here is freedom. We can do as we please with our bodies and minds. We have no restrictions and can worship a god of our own choosing, including no god at all, if we wish.”
Simply put, the world loves the things of the world. The ungodly relish the pleasures of sin. Jesus said they prefer the darkness to the light. “This is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19).
Christ tells his followers, “If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you” (John 15:19).
Jesus adds in the same passage, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you” (15:18). In short, if you are of Christ — if God chose you out of a worldly life to follow his Son, Jesus — you will never be loved or accepted by this world. But just as Christ said he is the light of the world, he declares us also to be the light of the world: “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden” (Matthew 5:14). May we all let our light shine brightly!
Because He bridges the gap between us and the defined of good and evil...there is no grey and no relativism and man is not God...thus, the hatred. Simple, but not elegant.
Because He is ALL GOOD....and the Left DESPISES GOOD!
Men love darkness because their deeds are evil
The four Gospels portray him as kind, patient, long-suffering, full of tenderness, forgiving, not willing that one person should perish.
And women also especially the ones that murder their own CHILDREN.
God is love and also God is just. Sin must be punished and for God to not punish sin would be an injustice to the victims of all the sin in the world.
God provided the perfect way for anyone who wants to avoid the judgment their sin demands. Anyone, no matter age, intellectual ability, location, society, financial condition, whatever.
Anyone can embrace the message of forgiveness for sin and reconciliation through Christ no matter what. If they choose not to, they are choosing to put themselves under the judgment of God for their own sin.
God is patient, but there comes a time when evil must be dealt with once and for all. There will be an ultimate end to all evil forever. That is what Revelation is about.
As post #9 stated, there comes a time when there is no more mercy, only judgement.
The Bible states that it is appointed unto to man once to die, and after this the judgement.
You can choose Him as Savior or as Judge. I prefer the Savior.
Why the world hates Jesus:
“The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil” —John 7:7.
The mind can deny God, the heart can have other desires, but the soul knows He is their Creator. Those combinations can elicit a wide range of reactions in those separated from their Creator.
Jesus is a Greek translation of Yeshua (Joshua) and Christ is a title for “annoited one. When he was alive he was simply Yeshua of Nazareth.
In life he was a rabble rouser that blessed the poor and condemned the rich. He was bit of a communist really.
He represents judgement. Sinners hate that.
Jesus convicts us by His very goodness and love - ego, hubris (stiff necks), selfishness, greed and a host of other flaws cause those who know they have reason to be shame-ridden to rebel - and He loves us even so.
If we cannot humble ourselves before such majesty, we must delude ourselves into thinking we’re what counts. Especially since God is the ultimate in humility - He created us and spoke the Universe into being and can just as easily control every one of His creations, but He gives us free will to sin as we will, all the while forgiving us and setting a place at His table if only we manage to confess our frailty and ask Jesus to be our personal Lord and Savior - what’s not to hate (I mean “adore”).
Once again, God Bless for your studies and sharing of His Love.
He is hated because He is God Himself in the flesh.
I believe the operative word is guilt.
At Any mention of God, Father/Son/Holy Spirit a person will immediately be faced with their own guilt.
There are only 2 responses to guilt:
Acceptance or Denial.
That is why people hate Jesus. They don’t like facing their own guilt. They cannot accept it. Jesus reminds them.
He’s hated by many in the USA because his blood is ultimately what matters. Nothing is stronger than the blood of Jesus.
He’s not hated. He’s feared.
Yep.
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