……”We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God”—John 10:33
The Jewish leaders are fine with the good things that Jesus does, but Jesus is crossing the line with who he claims to be. He says that he is God, a threat to their own ideas of who God should be. The Jewish leaders’ reaction to Jesus’s claim to divinity highlights the radicality of the central truth we believe as Christians: Jesus Christ is God.
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Hallelujah amen. This essay is another home run. The “masking out of compassion for others” argument is one that resides outside of absolute truth. Oddly, people who believe in absolute truth (e.g., Christians) are swept up in it. Simply baffling and yet an indicator of the incredible marketing you talked about the other day.
Personally I’ve taken issue with the idea that the best way to imitate Jesus is to mask up and avoid people, when the Jesus that I have read about routinely walked into crowds of sick people and healed them with his hands.
I am also old enough to remember when Mother Theresa was considered a hero of the faith. Hard to imagine in this era of simpering pansies…I mean nice, considerate people.