|
|
| Jesus Was a Sinner |
When Jesus went after the money changers in the temple
He was crying out against corruption, greed, profiteering at the expense of worship
But the Powers-That-Be who allowed that system to exist,
They had their motives.
Perhaps that was how, in a round-about way, the ongoing maintenance of the temple was financed.
Or a form of taxation that everyone could agree to.
Obviously the state needs to raise money to fund governmental obligations.
No one would permit a vendor to flagrantly steal people's money, especially not on the Temple grounds.
It was a system.
Society agreed to it.
Just like in Mexico, where the police are paid so poorly, that they factor bribery into their wage,
It's a system.
Yes it's ugly, and probably needs to be changed, but it works.
So who was Jesus to attack that system?
And did he not act in a very un-Jesus-like fashion by doing so?
What he did was not necessarily at all correct.
And thus, he could not be God, because he did something that was wrong, and his response to a scene that offended him was outrageous and offensive. He was completely out of line. Certainly the city authorities felt so, and their opinions absolutely matter. He certainly should have been punished for his illegal and destructive behavior. A son of God would never commit such an act in any civilized, cultured society. If God can act barbarically just because he lives in a barbaric time, then he is nothing more than a creature of his time, not a multi-dimensional super-being.
You don't need more than one example of Jesus behaving like a flawed sinning human to invalidate his claim to deity. But I could go on….
When Jesus went after the money changers in the temple
He was crying out against corruption, greed, profiteering at the expense of worship
But the Powers-That-Be who allowed that system to exist,
They had their motives.
Perhaps that was how, in a round-about way, the ongoing maintenance of the temple was financed.
Or a form of taxation that everyone could agree to.
Obviously the state needs to raise money to fund governmental obligations.
No one would permit a vendor to flagrantly steal people's money, especially not on the Temple grounds.
It was a system.
Society agreed to it.
Just like in Mexico, where the police are paid so poorly, that they factor bribery into their wage,
It's a system.
Yes it's ugly, and probably needs to be changed, but it works.
So who was Jesus to attack that system?
And did he not act in a very un-Jesus-like fashion by doing so?
What he did was not necessarily at all correct.
And thus, he could not be God, because he did something that was legally and objectively wrong, and his response to a scene that offended him was outrageous and offensive. He was completely out of line. Certainly the city authorities felt so, and their opinions absolutely matter. He certainly should have been punished for his illegal and destructive behavior. A son of God would never commit such an act in any civilized, cultured society. If God can act barbarically just because he lives in a barbaric time, then he is nothing more than a creature of his era, not a multi-dimensional super-being.
You don't need more than one example of Jesus behaving like a flawed sinning human to invalidate his claim to deity.
But I could go on....
|
|
