For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.
Matthew 24: 5
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
Christians these days are just the worst. They are always taking stances on divisive issues like abortion and marriage and constantly have a lot of people angry at them. This is so unlike the person they’re supposed to be emulating — Jesus, a cool dude whom everyone loved.
Now, I’ve never read the Bible (I think Jesus would agree not to waste time on really old books when there are much lighter, more uplifting alternatives available on Audible), but my impression is that he was this really nice guy who went around giving everybody great self-esteem, telling people, “Hey, keep doing whatever you’re doing. You’re great and are going to Heaven.” That’s why everyone loves Jesus: because he told people they’re all great the way they are and don’t need to change. I don’t know where Christians got this idea that people need to sacrifice their old way of living and follow some exclusive Savior to get to Heaven, but it doesn’t sound very Jesus-like to me.
In fact, if Jesus were around today, I’ll bet he’d tell Christians to “chill out” on all their narrow morality that upsets people and accept whatever people feel like doing because it’s all good. The only thing he might challenge people to change is to try more socialism. The main thing to keep in mind is that if you’re making people upset, you’re not being like Jesus, who only made everyone happy.
Go here to read the rest. Every generation tends to imagine Christ in a way that reflects them. “Buddy Christ” is one of the more insipid re-imaginings of the Second Person of the Trinity, which says nothing about the actual Christ and a great deal about the contemporary world.
MTD.
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