Good and Evil: The Immortal Battle
I don’t read the Bible as often as I should. I tried to read both the Old and New Testaments, after my Mother died. I couldn’t get through the Old Testament. It’s scary. The God depicted there is directly involved with his creations, and sets off a series of plagues. He asked Abraham to sacrifice his son to test him.
But I did read the entire New Testament. Jesus Christ is a far different figure from the God of the Old Testament. I can understand why the Christian Identity Movement was started. It’s easy to see them as different Gods. The New Testament is full of hope. The Immaculate Conception. The Sermon on the Mount. Jesus overturning the moneychangers’ tables. The conversion of the very bad Saul into Saint Paul, on the road to Damascus, thus teaching us that no one is beyond redemption. My favorite Biblical quote is from Jesus himself, who declared, “It’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Now, I’m probably the only Christian who does love that verse. The rest stumble all over themselves to explain that Jesus didn’t actually mean that literally. Born Againers are especially adept at interpreting what Jesus did or didn’t really mean.
Jesus also spent a lot of time criticizing the Pharisees. It seems strange for the King of the Jews to focus on the Jewish leadership as if they were an outside entity; i.e., not like him. I recently read a discussion about the question of the Jewishness of Jesus on a conspiracy forum. Well, where else would you find such a discussion? Certainly not on The Kenneth Copeland Hour, or whatever. The point was made, and I’ve heard it before, that the term “Jew” is a relatively recent one, some 500 years old or so. Now, I have no way of knowing whether this is true or not, much as I cannot definitively establish whether or not some ingenious Black inventor first came up with lemonade at some point in time. The Bible certainly uses the word “Jew” quite a bit, but could that have been inserted in there over the centuries, during the many translations? Most good Protestants rely on the King James version as their Bible. Period. Certainly the language is poetically inspired, but did the good king have it translated literally?
The New Testament starts out with a delineation of Jesus’s genealogy, to demonstrate that through his father Joseph, he was born into the House of David. Except that Joseph wasn’t really his father. God was. So if any lineage was germane to Christ’s humanity, it would have been Mary’s, his human mother. Sorry, I can’t help but be a questioner of things. Growing up Catholic, the priests (at least then) didn’t stress Jesus’s Jewishness quite as strongly. But they mentioned that the Jews were responsible for his death. Many times. This is the primary
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