The tenor of your questions are clearly meant to be an attack against me personally and against Jesus Christ Himself.
Simply because you have chosen to find it difficult in responding to the "tenor" of the direct quotes from the "Gospels" from Jesus Christ I posted to you , I am therefore attacking you and he ?
They are called the Gospels Greggy-poo , for they are God's truth yes? But now you admit that they might be flawed after all for they are old . Could it also be that Jesus was not always the supreme master of his own emotions and too often set himself up as judge and jury ?
We know that he hated Jezebel , a priestess/princess he had never met with such a passion that he would not only destroy her , but the innocents of her loins :
Revelations 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Jesus was not beneath ordering the deaths of his enemies as he tells his disciples here in Luke to bring and kill those that offend him:
Luke 19:27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
Son of God or just another mad , angry , out-of-control preacher ? Or maybe a mythical charactor embodying the prejudices and tribal hatreds of the time , indignity and self righteousnesses of a People of the Book in ever-warring Judaea ...and their belief in their own superiority , unbelievable prophesies and superstitions ?
As for the tenor of Jesus nearing the end of his short-lived ministry let's examine this tenor of doom and damnation so dismaying is found everywhere everywhere in his ranting speaches that caused so much misery thru the ages:
"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell."
"Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world nor in the world to come." "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire."
"The Son of Man shall send forth his His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth";
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
"And these shall go away into everlasting fire." Then He says again,
"If thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into Hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched, where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
And he goes on and on about this gnashing of teeth and punishments of Hell to the point where you must draw the conclusion there is in large part a doctrine of cruelty being foisted here and not a doctrine of love . Just look at the generations of wars and misery that followed in it's wake ?
But the host of avenging angels never came from out of the thunderclouds destroying all in it's wake did they Greg ?
Nor did the fulfillment of the prophesy of the second coming
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It is your right to believe in this Son of God if you choose but upon close examination it is indeed a great leap of faith ,imo. As for attacking Jesus Christ Greg,
I think that would be very unwise given the tenor of the man and his quickness to condemn those that oppose him to everlasting fires of Hell or just plain death <G> |
