Don't you think that the crown of thorns mocks Jesus?
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Yes. I believe so. These people don't know the real truth behind all of it that Jesus came down from Heaven to save us all from sin. I just hope that at one point they will come to realize that what they're doing is wrong and will come to the point of repentance and forgiveness.
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It depends. I spoke to our Parish priest about that, (^_^) and he said that it was INSPIRED in the prophets who wrote it, so in reality it was not really what Jesus exactly says (or said).\n \n(^_^)
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Why do you guys think he's so bad?  On one of his pilgrimages to Isreal, he had rabi's crown Jesus as king and messiah.  He's saying that God wants His children to stop fighting and is working hard for world peace, currently working to make peace in the Middle East.\nHaving rabi's crown Jesus as king and Messiah sounds like a pretty good thing to me.\n\nPlus, what some of you guys are saying is practically hypocritical.  When Jesus was on earth and saying that he was the Messiah, everyone thought he was a crazy too.  But now we know he really is the messiah.  \nYou might actually try reading some of Rev. Moons teachings; they sound an awful lot like what Jesus was teaching.
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Christianity makes a mockery of God. At the same time that Christians claim to worship God as an omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent being, they make him out to be incompetent bumbler. Or worse. Simple forgiveness is beyond his capacities. God must "sacrifice himself to himself to change a rule he made himself!"\n\nThis is not only an absurdity, it is an essential absurdity. It is present in almost almost all forms of Christianity, and one can scarcely remove it and remain a Christian in anything but name. By definition, all Christians worship Christ - in some form - and most worship him as a saviour.\n\nBut what, exactly, is he saving us from? Though it varies from church to church, no matter what they call it, it's God himself. A hell created by God, a world fallen as a result of God's negligence, a separation from God imposed... by God.\n\n    "It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being."\n    - Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith \n\nChristianity certainly isn't the first religion to promote appeasement of its gods, and if it were merely another supernatural protection racket, it would be bad enough. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Christians elevate appeasement to the realm of "personal relationship", transforming their religion into a true monstrosity.\n\nThis is the type of "relationship" that abused wives have with their husbands, that brainwashed hostages have with their captors. It is known in clinical circles as Stockholm Syndrome. Should it come as any surprise that the cries of the church, "The Bride of Christ" sound much like the cries of an abused wife attempting to protect her husband?\n\n    "He must beat me."\n    "I deserve it."\n    "He has no choice."\n    "It's for my own good."\n\nThese excuses don't work for human abusers, and they work even less well for God. For if God is omnipotent, he must have a choice. And if we are flawed, we are only flawed because that is the way he made us. (No excuses that we ruined his perfect creation. A truly perfect creation does not self-destruct.)\n\nIf the Christian God does exist - and I see no reason to believe that he does - he's not worthy of the name.\n\nAnd that is the ultimate absurdity of Christianity.\n\n- Jason\nAugust 19, 1998\n\nFear is learned...created.  Religion is fear and therefore is also a creation of man.\njesusreligion.com
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Because they did it themselves...It's fake!  Why would Jesus leave bruises on your body and cause you pain?  He suffered for us so we wouldn't have to experience it.
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I'm agnostic, but here's the deal: of course the Bible is metaphor. Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, parting of Red Sea, Sodom & Gomorrah, Virgin Birth, Lazarus rasied from the Dead, etc. But we have to remember that those stories were all told by a group of semi-nomadic, largely illiterate people living 2000 years ago. They were simply using metaphor and allegor and symbolism to convey as best they could their understanding of God. So yes, they ARE a bunch of stories, if you want to over-simplify like that, but the big question is: what compelled them to go to such lengths to create such myths? And why would Jesus' disciples risk death--and incur death--if they thought he was a fake? After his death they could have simply disbanded, yet they continued on. To me--the reasons for the stories are more important than the literal accuracy. To read the Bible like a history book is to totallt miss the point!
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i know this isn't really answering your question but i was kinda surprised to see what you said about "God looking like an unforgiving bully". I don't get that - He says do anything you want with this amazing garden I've given you, except one thing. If you do it, I'm going to punish you. So they do that one thing, and surprise surprise, they get punished. THEN He says, ok, so now you all do loads of stuff that goes against what i have said you should do, but I'll offer forgiveness through Jesus. That seems both pretty consistent and forgiving to me. \nSorry that doesn't answer your question, and I'm not ranting at you, just interested that you think that. I've never looked at it in that way. Hope other's answers are more on the point.\n\n\nAnd shadowalfalfa -sorry to disagree with you again, but Moses is thought to have written the first 5 books of the Bible.\n\nAn addition to my answer after your addition to your question - there is a prophecy in Daniel 7 that is entirely consistent with the acts of Alexander the Great many many many years later. There is historical evidence that Jesus existed and did many of the things the Bible says He did. So at least those things happened. Coincidence??? I don't think so.
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This is prophecy/reference of Christs arrest and being nailed to the Cross.  Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me (these are the Jewish Priests and the Roman guards who arrest Jesus and call for his Crucifixion)  They have pierced my hands and feet, I can count all my bones (ref to Jesus on cross - he was nailed to Cross in the hands and feet, yet none of his bones were broken)  people stare and gloat over me ( the guards and Jewish priests mocked Jesus saying for him to save himself and mad fun of him)  They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing (the Roman guards stripped him of his clothing and threw lots (like dice) to win his clothing\n\nAs far as "Father forgive them they know not what they do"  . .Even at the Cross, Jesus prayed for those Crucifying him as well as the future generations that would not chose to believe and and know him, the Messiah and Saviour.
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Unfortunately so..\n\n.Perhaps it's a need to "be the one" who gets it right?\n\n Perhaps they're trying to get Christians to work the "Great Commission" harder?\n\n Perhaps they feel "scare tactics" will bring more to Christ?\n\n All of the Above are counter-productive, because then it paints a "charicature" of Christianity...
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There have been many movies mocking Jesus and many works of art mocking Jesus. But Muslims are afraid because they know Islam is false so anything making light of it might expose it's weakness. Like weak little childeren they have temper tamtrums.
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I think the criticism is funny. It's a show where people have problems and a guy talks to Jesus about them. Isn't this what christians want? As for people getting mad that clergy are represented as pill poppers and worse well as the son of two ministers I have seen that and worse from people who are ordained and in the pulpit.
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i think it really bothers Jesus,  to be constantly reminded   of one of the most horrible moments in his life.every year we celebrate his death, like a bunch of sick-o ghouls,, and worship his suffering--makes me sick to my stomach.\n\nhe not on the cross any more , and we  as a culture should stop torturing him.\n\nwe should love him as a fellow human being.\n\nand see him happy, healthy, and alive, living his own life--out there some were.
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Be careful - you'll have to answer for these "silly little comments" you made toward God. He is to be revered, not mocked. And I think the answer to your more ellaborate question would be the end times are approaching.
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Sure, Jesus was a prophet and we don't know what he looked like but there are lots 'pictures' of him around and people have played Jesus in movies. I don't think God gets upset about that if you have respect in your heart. I wouldn't want to adhere to a religion where you would be punished or executed for drawing a "likeness" of a prophet.
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There IS supporting evidence that proves that is was indeed written at the time it should have been. Christians refuse to believe in anything to do with it, simply because it would shred a major part of the Christ myth. It's amazing - even with the knowlegde they have of how the bible was constructed, and even knowing that many books were taken out of the bible as being heresy, they refuse to admit it might possibly be true. Why is it so hard to believe?  It was Judas' destiny to do it! And Jesus must have known that, too! If Judas was, as the text says, Jesus' favorite, and the one chosen, why is that bad? Jesus knew he had to die, he even knew where and how. All Judas did was help the prophecy be fulfilled. And to say his family wrote it to clear Judas' name is just stupid. Be open minded, people! You say you're enlightened by the Word - then you should be able to look at this with open minds.
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You know, YOU take the Bible more literally than we ""Bible-thumpers"" do! You here, not us, seem to be claiming that every single verse in the Bible MUST be taken literally, and we believe that, yes, there really are verses that are meant only to be taken as allegory. Did Gd actually ""walk"" in the Garden of Eden? YOU seem to say that this, too, must be taken literally, and not us!\n\nSo, it is possible, FOR US, to ""Believe in"" the Bible without taking Every Single verse literally, although you seem to say this verse must be taken literally for us to believe in it....
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You are entirely missing the point of the passage in Mark. He's talking about people who use technicalities to get out of doing the basics, one of which is honouring "Thy father and thy mother" - it is the same point he makes when he berates people for tithing mint and cumin, useless things to be giving to the poor.\n\nWe know that Jesus was not fixated on carrying out punishments - we see that clearly in the passage added to John in which he prevents a woman from being stoned, even though that is the prescribed punishment. Jesus knows that, in theory, everyone stands condemned - be they dishonourers of parents, adulters, or who knows what. That's the entire point of his visit - not to see to everyone's execution, but  to BE the paschal victim, the stand in for every thing that we do.\n\nChristianity is not bibliolatry. It isn't about hanging on the technical words used, finding the strictest possible literal sense, and then stoning people. The Bible takes on meaning only through Exegesis - the critical study of the work as a whole, as done through the millenia through the great interpretive traditions of the greatest theologians, such as Augustine, Origen, John Chrysostom, Thomas Aquinas, St. Jerome, etc.\n\nChristianity is about the hope laid at the feet of the cross, and brought to fruition in that rolled away stone. If you continue to miss this simple childlike hope that infuses  everything in Christianity, you will never understand it - and continue to flail away at its edges with irrelevent interpretations of passages you don't understand.