Ten things that the beloved Jesus never even taught, but some in this world twisted for their own benefit:
How about putting the f–king fire out?!?! Nobody had a coat in December in New York to wrap her in, get her on the ground, and smother the flames burning this white woman?
How about thinking about heaven less, and fighting the evil ones MORE?
And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
New Living Translation
This messenger was John the Baptist. He was in the wilderness and preached that people should be baptized to show that they had repentedof their sins and turned to God to be forgiven..Ths is why Jesus’ story of the prodigal son (who blew his entire inheritance from his dad on parties, booze, and wild women) is so central. The father is God, and the son is us. The son is mortified and ashamed, saying “let me be a servant; I am not worthy to be your son.” THEREFORE the father forgives him and takes him back into the family..
Guest Essay
Why Jesus Never Stopped Asking Questions
Mr. Wehner, who served in various roles in the three Republican administrations before the Trump administration, is a contributing Opinion writer. He attends McLean Presbyterian Church in McLean, Va.
Malcolm Muggeridge, the renowned 20th-century social critic and British journalist, was an unlikely convert to Christianity. For most of his life, he was an agnostic; faith for him was “infinitely unattainable.” But attain it he did, late in life, and in 1975 he wrote, “The coming of Jesus into the world is the most stupendous event in human history.”
Twenty centuries after his birth, Jesus still holds a revered place in the hearts of billions of people. I am among them. I imagine that it has influenced almost every area of my life, like food coloring dropped in water.
Among the things that have long fascinated people about Jesus and explain his enduring appeal is his method of dialogue and teaching. He asked a lot of questions and told a lot of stories in the form of parables. In fact, parables form about a third of Jesus’ recorded teachings. The Gospels were written decades after he died, so his questions and parables clearly left a deep impression on those who bore testimony to him.
Martin Copenhaver, a retired president of Andover Newton Theological School, claims in his book “Jesus Is the Question” that Jesus was more than 40 times as likely to ask a counter-question as answer one directly, and he was 20 times as likely to offer an indirect answer as a direct one. “Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger,” T.S. Eliot wrote in “The Rock.” “Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.”
As for his use of parables, in “Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes” the theologian Kenneth Bailey wrote, Jesus “created meaning like a dramatist and a poet rather than like a philosopher.” The author refers to Jesus as a “metaphorical theologian” whose “primary method of creating meaning was through metaphor, simile, parable and dramatic action rather than through logic and reasoning.”
Jesus, when asked by his disciples in Matthew 13 why he spoke in parables, indicated that it was to reveal the truth to some and to hide the truth from others. He was willing to disclose the truth to those who were sincere but wanted to conceal it from people not willing to honestly wrestle with its meaning. Jesus also clearly understood the power of stories to make his words more memorable by making them more personal.
“Arguments may form our opinions, but stories form our loves,” Cherie Harder, the president of the Trinity Forum, told me. She added, “Stories ask us to enter another world — which usually has the result of broadening or disrupting our own.”
With his puzzles and paradoxes, Jesus is trusting our discernment, knowing that the Bible includes contrasting approaches on matters ranging from why people suffer to keeping the Sabbath to how we should treat our enemies. As the theologian Kenton Sparks put it, “At face value, Scripture does not seem to furnish us with one divine theology; it gives us numerous theologies.”
I wonder, too, if Jesus, in telling parables, might have had in mind what Emily Dickinson described when she wrote, “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.” So much more so when she closes her poem by saying, “The Truth must dazzle gradually/Or every man be blind.”
Kerry Dearborn, a professor emerita of theology at Seattle Pacific, told me that in terms of the ways in which Jesus communicated, “I’m convinced he used questions and stories as a means of connection and transformation — to awaken us, to whet our appetites, to invite us to draw nearer, that we might open up more fully to God and to God’s purposes in and for us.”
“With his use of everyday elements of life, people felt seen,” Ms. Dearborn added. “With his powerful depictions of a father who loves prodigals, tax collectors and Samaritans, people were comforted and felt safe enough to follow him. And hearing stories of the ways in which God stands on the side of the oppressed, people would know they could trust this God of both justice and love.”
Mr. Yancey went on to point out in so many places, Jesus makes it impossible for us to conclude, “I’m OK. I can relax.” Whether it’s Jesus’ teachings on anger or lust or his command that we be perfect as his father in heaven is perfect, “no one can reach that place of spiritual superiority that Jesus holds out, which was his point, exactly. We don’t earn God’s grace; we receive it.”
William Fullilove, a pastor at McLean Presbyterian Church, where I worship, put it to me this way: “Jesus was after our hearts, not just our minds. He was after lives changed, not just intellects grown.”
Jesus used stories, then, but he was also part of a story, one that contains thousands of characters and unexpected twists and turns, different genres (poetry, prophecy, epistles, wisdom literature) and countless subplots. But the Bible is also, above all, a meta-narrative — the unfolding of a story God has entered, most conspicuously in the person of Jesus, a drama that has purpose and direction. That has been, at least for some of us, a source of comfort, especially in moments of grief and great pain.
Kate Bowler, an associate professor at Duke Divinity School who was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer at the age of 35, told me, “Jesus’ tender birth and violent death leave the problem of suffering unanswered until the end of days. We must learn to live and die in the not-yetness of suffering and empire, fear and uncertainty. But our questioning hearts in the face of evil is not an affront to faith. Jesus simply says: Wait. All will be revealed.”
Christmas is meaningful, for those of us of the Christian faith, because it situates each of our lives — the joys and the sorrows, the hope and the despair, the dramatic and the mundane — in a larger narrative: Not only did God author it; the son of God became a protagonist within it.
I had an Indian christian woman give a me a leaflet on christianity, and i threw it out.
I will be happy to die an atheist.
I saw the beginning of Netanyahus speech on jewtube.
Their were christians saying we love you and your people, and god bless you.
Hating someone is a normal emotion and all christians should hate jews for slaughtering hundreds of millions of christians and sacrificing their children to baal, moloch.
You crush and destroy your enemies and never stop fighting.
You avenge your people who have been tortured sacrificed and slaughtered by jews.
Most christians cannot condemm or criticise jews because that would be condemming their religion.
When their hoping to spend eternity with a jewish god.
I only have respect for buddism and roman paganism.
Without christianity i don’t think that cultural marxism would have taken off. Christianity is not nationalist like European paganism.
Which is honest that it’s mythology.
I think that evolution and biology should be taught in schools and our pagan roots and our heritage.
Too many white christians worship jews and think their living gods.
I agree. Nature is already slowly ‘taking out the trash’ and returning us to European paganism.
Nessun bambino dovrebbe soffrire le pene dell’inferno, in ospedale, a Gaza, negli angoli del mondo.
I nordici provano la stessa vergogna che provo io tutte le volte.
Gli ebrei “accendono il Fuoco” e i Gentili li accompagnano.
“Tutti i medici che hanno scoperto un’enzima che nutre i tumori” in tutte le vaccinazioni pediatriche sono stati uccisi o bannati e stavano rendendo pubblica questa scoperta.E noi ce la prendiamo sempre con Dio, con Gesù, con i Santi.
Mi vergogno.
https://www.conoscenzealconfine.it/tutti-morti-i-medici-che-hanno-scoperto-gli-enzimi-del-cancro-nei-vaccini/
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Jbb8Rwx8H4jiDVrz9
Perché continuano, (si ostinano) a fare questi paragoni?
Anche se criticano “IsraHell”.
Aus dem ‘Politikversagen’ vom heutigen Tage:
Die Eltern vom kleinen André, der beim Terroranschlag am Magdeburger Weihnachtsmarkt vom Araber Taleb A. totgerast wurde, haben ein Video hochgeladen, das sprachlos macht: Darin beschreiben Andrés Mama und sein Stiefvater, wie sehr sie sich vom Staat im Stich gelassen fühlen. Und, dass sie seit Tagen nicht zu ihrem toten Kind gelassen werden!
Weiterlesen auf nius.de, und zwar:
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Taleb A. tötete ihren Sohn (9) auf dem Magdeburger Weihnachtsmarkt: Die herzzerreißende Abrechnung der Eltern mit diesem Staat
https://www.nius.de/gesellschaft/news/taleb-a-toetete-ihren-sohn-9-auf-dem-magdeburger-weihnachtsmarkt-die-herzzerreissende-abrechnung-der-eltern-mit-diesem-staat/7481aba6-b20c-4a42-aa23-e3e8fc96365e
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Es ist ein herzzerreißendes Video. Und sie wollen, dass es alle sehen! Die Eltern vom kleinen André, der beim Terroranschlag am Magdeburger Weihnachtsmarkt vom Araber Taleb A. totgerast wurde, haben auf TikTok ein Statement hochgeladen, das sprachlos macht: Darin beschreiben Andrés Mama Désirée Gleißner und sein Stiefvater Patrick Sommer, wie sehr sie sich vom Staat im Stich gelassen fühlen. Und, dass sie seit Tagen nicht zu ihrem toten Kind gelassen werden!
Sehen Sie das Video hier in voller Länge:
(Das/der dreiminütige Video/Aufruf ist auf der Seite des Bloggers namens nius.de eingebettet)
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Anamnese Dr. Conti: Heute muß davon ausgegangen werden, daß die Mutter des kleinen Jungen Leo Stettin, der hinterrücks von einem Neger, zusammen mit seiner Mutter, in einem Bahnhof der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ins Gleisbett vor einen einfahrenden Zug (ICE) geworfen respektive geschubst wurde, nicht nur nicht ihren Sohn bestatten durfte, sondern nicht einmal von seinem Leichnam Abschied nehmen durfte. Ein schlichtes Holzkreuz erinnert heute an Leo, auf einer kargen Grabstätte platziert – John de Nugent hat über dieses tragische Schicksal auf seiner hiesigen Seite berichtet.
Die Eltern des kleinen André, der auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt in Magdeburg von einem Araber mit einem Kraftfahrzeug zu Tode gerast wurde, spüren, daß ihnen das gleiche Schicksal droht, das der armen Mutter des kleinen Leo widerfahren ist: das letztlich von den politisch verantwortlichen des Staates gewaltsam zu Tode gebrachte Kind, soll ohne Abschied, klammheimlich, in der heimischen Erde verscharrt werden – die Eltern bitten ausdrücklich um Verbreitung ihres Videos beziehungsweise Aufrufs.
Danke. Das werde ich auf meiner Website nun weiterverbreiten.
Gerade das Töten eines Kindes is entsetzlich, und daher für den Kampf um die Volksaufklärung von Nutzen.
Und auch in Amerika geht das Morden gegen unschuldige Weiße weiter.
Oder ich füge dem Wort “unschuldig” lieber Gänsefüßchen hinzu. Wer die Wirklichkeit leugnet, sie sogar bekämpft (!), oder sie achselzuckend hinnimmt, jedoch nichts tut, und tapfere Aktivisten lieber eifersüchtig kritisiert, ist keineswegs ganz unschuldig, und in diese Kategorien fallen 80% der Weißen. Daher schafften wir 1933 als weltfremd die Demokratie ab.
Nebenbei erwähnt gäbe es 100prozentig ohne einen großen Magdeburger gar kein Amerika, sondern eine arme Rohstoffkolonie eines arroganten und ausbeuterischen Großbritanniens:
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Aus dem ‘Politikversagen’ vom heutigen Tage, und zwar:
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10 Tote bei Terroranschlag in Neu Orleans: Täter hatte IS-Flagge an seinem Auto befestigt
VSA. Beim Täter von Neu Orleans soll es sich um den 42-jährigen Shamsud Din Jabbar handeln. Vor seiner Amokfahrt, bei der er zu den Neujahrsfeierlichkeiten zehn Menschen tötete und 35 verletzte, soll er eine Fahne des IS an sein Auto befestigt haben.
Weiterlesen auf apollo-news.net, und zwar:
https://apollo-news.net/10-tote-in-new-orleans-auto-faehrt-in-menschenmenge/
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Berichten aus den Vereinigten Staaten zufolge raste ein Auto, in Neu Orleans, im US-Bundesstaat Louisiana, in eine Menschenmenge. Das ganze geschah im Ausgehviertel der Südstaatenmetropole, dem French Quarter. Laut offiziellen Angaben kamen mindestens zehn Menschen ums Leben, während 35 Verletzte in umliegende Krankenhäuser gebracht wurden.
Der Vorfall ereignete sich gegen 3.15 Uhr am Neujahrsmorgen. Nachdem der Mann in die Menschenmenge gefahren ist, sprang der mutmaßliche Täter aus dem Fahrzeug, einem weißen Pick-up-Truck und begann, mit einer Waffe auf die Anwesenden zu schießen. Die Polizei erwiderte das Feuer. Der Lokalsender WGNO meldete, daß der mutmaßliche Täter im Schußwechsel getötet wurde.
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Auto rast in New Orleans in Menschen, Bürgermeisterin spricht von Terroranschlag
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-tus-ozuynk&pp=ygUfQXV0byByYXN0IGluIGZlaWVybmRlIE1lbnNjaGVuIA%3D%3D
(Die Länge des Berichts beträgt 3/4 Minute)
Den Aufruf der Eltern machte ich soeben über ‘frei3’ bei ‘youtube’ auf – hier ist er:
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MAGDEBURG: DER STAAT LÄSST DIE ELTERN VOM 9 JÄHRIGEN ANDRE HÄNGEN BITTE ANHÖREN & TEILEN !
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCDanLsbDW0&t=220s&pp=2AHcAZACAQ%3D%3D
(Die Länge des Berichts beträgt 3.40 Minuten)
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Uuupps – der Aufruf der Eltern wurde von ‘youtube’ gesperrt, ist nicht mehr einsehbar.