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Maynard
IF jesus is real, and IF he were here...he wouldn't be at church...he would be at the bar across the street, or the marylin manson concert your parents warned you not to go to, or even that r rated movie the pastor said he wouldn't feel right about seeing. So what DOES it mean to be christ like? What DOES it mean to have a "christ concious"?
Perhaps Jesus would be doing the things you mention...when he wasn't too busy cursing fig trees for their failure to produce fruit out of season...or having his disciples steal a donkey and her foal so that he could appear to fulfill some misunderstood Old Testament prophecy...or teaching his disciples to hate their families...or overturning the moneychangers' tables in the temple who were there for the purpose of changing the unacceptable Roman money into a currency more acceptable for the temple...or harrassing the temple merchants who were selling animals to be sacrificed at the alter for those who came from too great a distance to realistically be able to bring their own...or any number of other things to win friends and influence people. People who haven't read the bible (and many who have, for that matter) seem to imagine Jesus as some kind of all-loving being who had nothing but good to say about everyone. Kind of an adult male version of Shirley Temple, if you will. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth.
If you get the time, you might want to look up the verses I mentioned in my first post in this thread. You can even go to the following website to make it easier: [
www.blueletterbible.org] If it's you first real introduction to the New Testament, it will probably be quite an eye-opener for you.