Your own personal Jesus

Stealth

Interesting article on liberal christains vs conservative christains view of Jesus. If Jesus is anything like the governing body of Jehovah's witnesses, I don't want anything to do with him. My Jesus is a rebel!

What is your Jesus like?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/mar/04/jesus-liberals-conservatives

"Love thy neighbour, so long as he is not an illegal immigrant. Blessed are the poor, so long as they are deserving. And, though it may be harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than to pass through the eye of a needle, multimillionaires should have no problem passing through the door of the Oval Office.

Religion and politics have always made uneasy bedfellows; yet how can Christians from all shades of the political spectrum reconcile their diverse views with the teachings of a single man?

A study led by Lee Ross of Stanford University in California has found that the Jesus of liberal Christians is very different from the one envisaged by conservatives. The researchers asked respondents to imagine what Jesus would have thought about contemporary issues such as taxation, immigration, same-sex marriage and abortion. Perhaps not surprisingly, Christian Republicans imagined a Jesus who tended to be against wealth redistribution, illegal immigrants, abortion and same-sex marriage; whereas the Jesus of Democrat-voting Christians would have had far more liberal opinions. The Bible may claim that God created man in his own image, but the study suggests man creates God in his own image."

mrsjones5

Now I got that Depeche Mode song running thru my mind.

Stealth

Your personal Jesus likes Depeche Mode, mine, Johnny Cash.

cantleave

My personal Jesus likes Metal!

cofty

Jesus is the ultimate sockpuppet.

Here is a scientific study on the National Academy website that prove exactly what you are saying...

Believers’ estimates of God’s beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people’s beliefs

Click on the pdf link in the second column for the full text.

THE GLADIATOR

This hippie was not a stupid man and was taking me too close to the flame, but I liked his easy manner and intelligence and wanted to play along. ‘I am not sure I do love Jesus. But as you said, it is fear that keeps most of us in line.’

‘You’re remarkably honest for a Jehovah’s Witness.’

‘It is nice to talk with someone and be able to say what I really feel for a change.’

‘Do your congregation Servants know how you feel?’

I ignored his question and continued with the line of thought we had started. ‘We are supposed to love this God and fear him at the same time. I find myself unable to do both, so fear will have to do.’ The hippie laughed heartily. It seemed he was happy with the progress we were making. ‘I felt just like you, so I left the whole caboodle.’

‘So how do you live with the fear?’ I asked, encouraging him to share more of his gentle wisdom with me.

‘Easy. I am not afraid any more.’ He lit and puffed on another strangely-shaped cigarette that he had just rolled and looked at me thoughtfully before he carried on. ‘They have told you a lot of fibs about Jesus. Jesus is love, peace, harmony. He is whatever you want him to be. He is everywhere man, you just have to look around.’

I looked around the room and concluded that his Jesus liked colour. The fallout from his strangely shaped cigarette had relaxed me and I was beginning to like his Jesus more than mine.

(From There's Something Wrong With THAT BOY! By Trevor Willis)

WTWizard

What about that thing in the sky which Jesus, and the other 20 "messiahs(??)", were ripped off from? Like the sun.

tec

I think people can make anyone out to be who they want him to be. Not just Christ. I'm sure people from different places have different views of JFK, or Lincoln, or Ghandi, or any other person known for something. Not all of those views are based on the reality of the person, but the person in question is real nonetheless. Just not always known.

Peace,

tammy

Celestial

Yeah dear...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6fyhZ0G5E&ob=av3n

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xrNaTO1bI

lilbluekitty

We just talked about this in church recently, we saw these funny/weird teeshirts with Jesus holding an AK-47, a skinny Jesus that looked like he woudln't hurt anyone, etc. I'm more a Democrat than a Republican, (if I were to vote at all) but I think Jesus is kind, loving, but not a pushover and can exact judgement in a way that would be scary for people who deserved it. But I also think he's approachable and reasonable, totally unlike the GB.

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