Dear God,
There were so many things about Jesus, so many types of him:
A. The miracle-worker: Tirelessly performed miracles on the ailing because He could, and He really loved them too much to say nothing in the sidelines when he knew of them.
B. The Chosen One: Seeking out the crowds, going from town to town, and showing us the way to eternal life.
C. The Contemplative Quiet One: Who's that sneaking off to the Mount of Olives to pray again?
D. The Brave Young Prophet: Starting fights in the temple in a rage (Religion becoming a profession, and not a philosophy really irked Him), coolly answering the Pharisees, and then preaching His way (a way so contradictory to the leaders of the umm temple?) to the impressed, and awed, bystanders.
E. The Very Very Human One:
"Father, if it is your will, take this cup [of suffering] away from me. However, your will must be done, not mine." Luke 22:42
That was a moment of breaking down...a moment showing just how human Jesus really was.
F. The Loving One: Jesus always preached love- He loved intensely, and passionately. Rebuking Peter when he tried to talk (worldly) sense into Him.
If I'd seen Jesus' eyes, I would be able to say that there was something in them; He was a beautiful disaster waiting to happen; a flower waiting for the right moment to burst into flames....but I haven't seen him, soo nevermind me haha).
I kinda went on a tangent, but in short I want to that Kurt Vonnegut was wrong when he said the problem with the Christ stories is that Jesus was the Son of God. That's the highlight, that the Son of Gd would come down on Earth and show us how to really live. If He was anyone else, it wouldn't have been as authentic..
What people thought when they read that Jesus had been "lynched" is how even the best people cannot survive in the world. This is because the most important detail about Jesus was not that He was the Son of God, but that He was an incredible man. Sometimes it was easy to forget that He was supposed to be the Christ!
Cheers.
I just realized how funny I sound, like one of those exclamations mothers (okay older women) make when they're distressed..."Dear God! That child has wet himself again!" Well what else can I say? Anything I write would be just as tacky...
Anyway. I'm just here to talk about an annoying, piece of interpretation that I read this morning that just won't leave me alone. Here it is, that one passage from Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut:
The flaw in the Christ stories, said the visitor from outer space, was that Christ, who didn’t look like much, was actually the Son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe. Readers understood that, so, when they came to the crucifixion, they naturally thought, and Rosewater read out loud again: Oh, boy—they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time! And that thought had a brother: “There are right people to lynch.” Who? People not well connected. So it goes.I don't think this is a flaw in the Christ stories. This is a reiteration of how awesome they actually are. That Christ, who "didn't look like much" (though, personally, I believe that Jesus was that magnetic type, hypnotizing people when he was high, and freaking them when he was low. All evidence shows that Jesus was a bit bipolar...and I mean that in the best possible way! I admire bipolar people- they're the idealistic ones, the ones who believe in their dreams, the ones who fall when they see the real world), was the Son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe (I prefer calling You God..). Jesus was sent down on Earth as a mere missionary: a wayward, young prophet. You let Your partner be reduced to that (I, for one, am proud of what Jesus is. He felt. He had that fire in Him.
There were so many things about Jesus, so many types of him:
A. The miracle-worker: Tirelessly performed miracles on the ailing because He could, and He really loved them too much to say nothing in the sidelines when he knew of them.
B. The Chosen One: Seeking out the crowds, going from town to town, and showing us the way to eternal life.
C. The Contemplative Quiet One: Who's that sneaking off to the Mount of Olives to pray again?
D. The Brave Young Prophet: Starting fights in the temple in a rage (Religion becoming a profession, and not a philosophy really irked Him), coolly answering the Pharisees, and then preaching His way (a way so contradictory to the leaders of the umm temple?) to the impressed, and awed, bystanders.
E. The Very Very Human One:
"Father, if it is your will, take this cup [of suffering] away from me. However, your will must be done, not mine." Luke 22:42
That was a moment of breaking down...a moment showing just how human Jesus really was.
F. The Loving One: Jesus always preached love- He loved intensely, and passionately. Rebuking Peter when he tried to talk (worldly) sense into Him.
If I'd seen Jesus' eyes, I would be able to say that there was something in them; He was a beautiful disaster waiting to happen; a flower waiting for the right moment to burst into flames....but I haven't seen him, soo nevermind me haha).
I kinda went on a tangent, but in short I want to that Kurt Vonnegut was wrong when he said the problem with the Christ stories is that Jesus was the Son of God. That's the highlight, that the Son of Gd would come down on Earth and show us how to really live. If He was anyone else, it wouldn't have been as authentic..
What people thought when they read that Jesus had been "lynched" is how even the best people cannot survive in the world. This is because the most important detail about Jesus was not that He was the Son of God, but that He was an incredible man. Sometimes it was easy to forget that He was supposed to be the Christ!
Cheers.
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