unknown soldier wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:13 pm
Christ was an egomaniac constantly telling people about how great and important he thought he was.
Jesus rarely if ever spoke about how great he was; that statement simply is not true
When his messiahship was challenged he defended it, he was a man on a mission and it would have been disrepectful of him to his superior not to enlighten people as to his own role in saving mankind when he had been sent for that very reason. He was truthful of his authority and did not deny his divine origins but did not Lord over people, constantly refering to his superiority. He was not ashamed of who his Father was but
never mentioned himself just to focus on his talents or abilities. It was in fact not rare for him to tell people NOT to tell others what he had done for them, he would sometimes cure people and simply move on so they didn't even know who he was, Indeed when he spoke of events that he would play a central rle he would often refer to himself in the third person as "the son of man" highlighting his mortality as well as distracting undue attention from his person in favor of the subjects of events.
JOHN 5: 19
Jesus said to them: "Most truly I say to you, the Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing.
The reality was Jesus
humility and selflessnes is clearly evident in the way he conducted himself and acted.
Egosentric self-centered people are not appealing, they have little time for others and have little to say of comfort to those in need. The Jesus of the bible was the exact opposite of such a man. Even when stressed he was indignant at the very idea that people keep little children away from him. He commended and encouraged those considered of little value in society, when a leper approached him he expressed his deep desire to help him, he fed the hunger, taught those denied instruction by the institutions of the elite of his day , and worked tirelessly for others. He spend his days not in the luxurious palces of the rich and the powerful but amongst the working people and never ONCE do we read of him complaining of his lack of comfort or his fatigue.
When someone states something so blatently false, so profoundly perverse, so utterly and entirely in contrast to reality, it is sometimes difficult to know where to start in response. Suffice it to say, to paint the Jesus of scripture as a selfserving egomaniac is a GROSS mismisrepresentation of the content of the gospels.
