I was reading Mark today, and as I was reading I got the distinct impression that Jesus wasn't a happy fellow. Almost everything he said was critical. I keep hearing people say that Jesus was this cheery person, but it seems to me that he was rather pissed off.
Is God a laid back dude, or is he hardcore strict, or somewhere inbetween? Why do you think so?
2006-08-13 16:30:15 · 29 answers · asked by theFo0t 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't know if you are black?
What does black mean anyway?
Where are you from? I have never seen anyone with that dark of skin?
Don't label yourself, and others will learn not to.
2006-08-13 16:34:58 · update #1
I don't remember the exact chapter but a Canninite woman approched Jesus and pleded with him to save her son...the Jesus just igored her. Later he did heal the son, but he didn't show her the same compasion as he had the other crowds of people, which had less faith in him.
2006-08-13 16:45:23 · update #2
A picture emerges of Jesus as kind at first, but after no one accepts him as a great rabbi or teacher, he gets angry and nasty.
He set out to be a big rabbi, but only wound up with a following of 12 country bumpkins from the Galilee.
He winds up being rude to his mother, cursing the learned elders, even cursing a fig tree? ... He violates laws concerning the Passover, the burying of the dead, and not changing the Law from Mt. Sinai. In Matthew 26 a woman pours expensive oil on his head, which makes him feel good, but which could have been better sold to feed the poor (as his students rightly point out).
2006-08-14 19:09:35 · answer #1 · answered by mo mosh 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think God has a sense of humor....He would have to with a bunch of screw-ups like us living on His planet. Otherwise I think another flood would've taken care of things a long time ago. LOL Jesus was a righteous man....and he got angry when people were not living their lives right. In every biography on someone there are holes and I'm sure Jesus's life was not fully documented. In private He may have laughed and joked a lot with His friends. Those moments may have never been spoken of or documented. That doesn't mean it didn't happen.
2006-08-13 23:41:04 · answer #2 · answered by Lilah 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
When Jesus was on the cross, after being tortured and then hung on the cross, he said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do. Would you forgive those people, who ripped most of the skin off your body, and drove giant nails through your wrists and ankles? Most people would be cursing their heads off. Jesus was about love, all the way. You have to read the New Testament carefully, and you will see this is true. I wonder if any person, would consent to being tortured to death on behalf of any other person, Jesus became angry at those people who only wanted to trap him in theological matters and wanted him dead.
2006-08-13 23:47:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Healed the blind, caused the cripple to walk, raised people from the dead, fed the poor, the list goes on and on. He gave a message of how people should love their enemies. I wouldn't say he was a hateful person at all. He was angry with the way the scribes and pharisees treated people and the way people were sentenced to die because of their sins. He prevented one woman from being stoned to death by asking the one who is without sin to cast the first stone. I would have to conclude he was the very definition of how we should be. I hope this answers your question.
He definitely wasn't like ravenwolf mn
2006-08-13 23:40:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus was gentle, loving, and kind...He criticized when criticism was totally appropriate....He spoke and walked the Truth and you know what they say? Sometimes the truth hurts....it hurt the San Hedrin enough to where they killed Him. Jesus was an impeccable human. Whether it fit into our definition of "nice" is immaterial....when we say ''nice'' now days, if you really look at it, you are usually talking about passive aggressive people pleaser....Jesus came to earth for a very serious purpose and that didn't include "people pleasing".
2006-08-13 23:41:26 · answer #5 · answered by Kiss my Putt! 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The bible describes the coming Messiah as "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief". He was very pained with the rejection of the Jews...as you can see in the verses where he wept for Israel, saying he wanted to embrace them as a mother hen does her chicks, but they would not have him.
Actually, if you pay attention, the only really angry words he had were for the Pharisees, who were always trying to trap him in some way. They were arrogant and would not listen to Jesus...He really let them have it for their superior attitude on more than one occasion. With everyone else, He had patience. He did correct his apostles several times, when they were in eror about something. But Jesus reserved his harshest words for those who had a "pretense" of holiness, but whose behavior didn't reflect it.
God is the perfection of all things; holiness, love, kindness, mercy, compassion, forgiveness. But He is also a just God. And those who gleefully reject His word and His son will pay the price for it, one day.
2006-08-13 23:38:02 · answer #6 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Jesus was compassionate but he would also criticize if you were doing wrong. He was trying to tell people how to believe and be saved. He is the son of God but people did not and still don't believe. I imagine that it had to be very frustrating to be telling everyone the good news and so many people just thought he was some crazy prophet.
2006-08-13 23:39:18 · answer #7 · answered by classic_tigger 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes, Jesus was nice. He was the only perfect human. He wasn't being critical, just trying to teach people the right way when they were clearly headed in the opposite direction.
And as far as God goes, the two testaments describe him differently. Jesus has him being loving and forgiving, but the OT says he is angry and jealous. I prefer to believe in the one Jesus speaks of :-D
2006-08-13 23:37:11 · answer #8 · answered by j 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Jesus to the Christians and Muslims is regarded as one who taught mercy to mankind, while the christians view him as the embodiment of god on earth the Muslims see him as a revered prophet.
He was critical of things because history shows him to be a revolutionary and one with that kind of title attached to him would have to be critical of what he wants to change.
2006-08-13 23:39:48 · answer #9 · answered by Ignorant_American 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
God is loving, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's "nice." "Nice" people don't tell people to stop doing something that's wrong. "Nice" people don't challenge cultural beliefs or push people out of their comfort zones. Loving people might, and often should, do all of these things if they're for the long-term good of the person they're correcting. Love is, after all, hoping for the best for someone.
So no, I would not call Jesus "nice," but I would call Him loving.
2006-08-13 23:37:53 · answer #10 · answered by mle_trogdor2000 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋