If Jesus didn't advocate a little violence, why did he whip people in the temple?
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Rev, you know so much.  Do you give bible lessons? Could you email the lessons on Jesus and his bad temper when he committed these violent acts?
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He never bashed anyone.  However he did question hypocritical teachings.  People that are supposed to be spreading the word should be held in higher standard so when they use their power selfishly Jesus found it dissapointing.  Kinda like some of todays religious leaders, they should be held more accountable if they use their power innappropiately.  Unlike what most people do when they categorize and generalize all religious leaders they fail to realize that there are certainly good ones out there.  People always look for the negative aspect of any belief if they disagree with it...they never take an objective view and see the good that some do.  Hypocritical if you ask me.
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There is still violence because we have free will to make choices, and sometimes those choices are wrong.  \n\nThe prophecy is that with the Second Coming of Christ, peace will reign for 1,000 years.  So far, He's only been here once.  That first time, He gave His life as substitutionary atonement for our sins, so that those who accept Him will have inner peace.
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because He kept Himself in constint relationship with his father . because you do not believe you proable will not understand this answer. but the closer I walk with Christ , the less likely i am to sin.Due to the fact that sin can not stand His holiness.. ever notice in the bible that any one that had a demon they fell before Jesus and asked Him not to have any thing to do with them? to move away from Him sin is more and more of my life. Jesus never moved away from God matter fact He left the crowds to be alone with God. so a closiness to God is a secert of not sinning. also for your other questions once he touched the dead girl and lepers they were healed, so was that a sin to make people well? it also shows that one touch by Jesus can change your life.
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Did Jesus corrected the people that was selling in the temple, politely, NO, I try my best to treat everyone with respect, But there is some things that don't deserve respect.
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Isn't our a body a temple indeed? Yes my dear. People don't realize how much of our lives are under our control. The God angle though? No, doesn't enter in to it.\n\nHA HA! You made someone mad!
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It was prophecied long time ago! Jesus said that due to violence and suffering the love of many will grow cold. Paul also said that in the last days people will be heartless, violent, lovers of pleasure rather than God.
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He had everything to gain.  He was a shunned child growing up for being an illegitimate child.  This childhood abuse caused serious psychological problems.  He craved attention, and when he got it, it was never enough.  When the attention stopped making him feel better he began craving pain.  That is why (which we've recently found out in the Judas writings) he asked his good friend Judas to turn him in.  Jesus wanted to be punished on the cross.  He made that crown of thorns himself to prove to himself that he can still feel.
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It also says that God is VERY angry.  The bible clearly describes how he brought plagues, floods, and firestorms to kill thousands of people.  He also had millions more killed in the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust.  In the Bible people are supposed to be stoned for violating any one of the hundred biblical laws.  If the church got its way then very few of us would still be alive.  It is a good thing they lost the power to execute people at will without any justification.  I hear the church is still bitter about that fact.
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""Does the New Testament condone stoning to death of non-believers? Does it promote violence in any form?""\n\nYes. See the following::\n\n         Matthew 10:34-37 34 Think not that I am come to \n         send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but \n         a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at \n         variance against his father, and the daughter \n         against her mother, and the daughter in law\n         against her mother in law. 36  And a man's foes \n         shall be they of his own household. 37  He that \n         loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy \n         of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more \n         than me is not worthy of me. \n\n         Luke 22:36  Then said he unto them, But now, he \n         that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise \n         his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell \n         his garment, and buy one.\n\n         Luke 19:27  But those mine enemies, which would \n         not that I should reign over them, bring hither, \n         and slay them before me.\n\n         John 2:15  And when he had made a scourge of small \n         cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and \n         the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the \n         changers' money, and overthrew the tables; \n\nJesus, not a man of peace, made whips and whipped people, he said slay those who dont want him to reign over them, he said his purpose in coming was to bring a sword.
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it sounds like what you are saying is if Jesus was still here on earth today, would he be treated with respect or like crap as he was in his day? and would we just repeat the past and worship him after he is physically dead, now that he is not around to hold us accountable.\n\nHe would definitely be treated like crap. \n\nIf you read the gospels it is pretty clear that Jesus was nonviolent, nonresistant, compassionate and lived simply.\n\nJust look at the people who have respect and power in this world and they are the exact opposite of having Jesus' qualities. \n\nThese people go to war....for stupid reasons..which is violence(jesus was nonviolent) and yet So called christians approve of this along with capital punishment and a variety of other violent means.\n\nThese people don't turn the other cheek. (jesus was Nonresistance). Despite the teachings of turning the other cheek, do the well-respected rulers and so-called heroes in our society really turn the cheek or geniunely forgive...of course not. people who love power usually don't.\n\nAre these well-respected people compassionate? (jesus was compassionate). If they are compassionate, then how can so many people in this world let alone the wealthiest of countries still be dominated by so much poverty and homelessness. And why are there so many bitter divorces (which is also not turning the other cheek or forgiveness) and crime and corrupt leadership and so on....? \n\nAre these Heroes of ours living simply? (Jesus and his followers lived simply, knowing that possesions corrupt and giving is love).\nThis is probably the obvious of all to answer and the one that most christians and others will not be willing to do. eventhough the gospels repeatedly warn of the worshipping of mammon and lost of heavenly rewards by having these things. This is one area that is the most emphasized in the gospels and the one area that is mostly ignored,...for obvious reasons. \n\nSo, would jesus be hated and despised and treated like crap if he were here today?. absolutely...and the evidence is that the one's who are most antichristain(christian being someone who is christlike and christlike being someone who follows a life as explained above)are treated the best in our society and the one's who are most christ-like are treated inferior.\n\nAnd because of this antichristian worshipping that world socities do....they would have to take  the real christ and turn him into an idea the same way that we turn human beings into celebrrties and worship him on our terms not his. Thus making jesus invisible even while visible.
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Many people experience this degradation, torture, and disrespect.  Jesus went through it so we can relate to him when people hurt us as well.  He can relate to our suffering because of what he went through.
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lol . . . Jesus mean . . . if you believe the bible . . . Jesus was straight forward and to the point.  He did not pussyfoot around . . . and treat people with kid gloves.  He tell things they way they are . . . no sugar coating.\n\nDo you think Jesus should have been kissing the apostles a**?  Hell no, they were too busy trying figure out who will take the lead after Christ . . . fighting for position half the time.\n\nJesus was a man . . . whether he was god's son (who know . . . who cares) . . . he did not back down on what he believed was right.
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Jesus isn't threatened by anything. He has the power to tread on snakes and scorpions if he decides to. Christians should not be threatened by the movie because we already know the truth, and that is Jesus. He said, "I am the Way the Truth and the Life" so there is nothing to worry about.
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I wonder why he quit?  I mean, he's supposed to be the same Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.  In the OT he was wrathful and ready to pounce on anyone who sinned and would be quite happy to include their entire family in the punishment.  In the NT, he's suddenly happy and loves everyone.
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He tried to tempt Jesus into worshipping him and renounce God. Jesus got angry and told him off.
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If, and only if, you are speaking of fighting with fist. Most do not because they want to be part of the "gentile civilized society" And those who would fight, often don't unless there is no alternative. Otherwise they just bull out a firearm and pop a cap into you. No muss , no fuss, and you don't even have to break a sweat.