Wouldn't this world be a better place if we all followed Jesus' teachings?

Question

Even if you are not Christian, you can at least respect His teachings of love, mercy, compassion and piousness.

Answer 1

Sure, we should come "not in peace but with a sword", right?

Jesus also preached great family values when he told all of his disciples to leave their families. Wasn't there something about turning all family members against each other, as well?

Answer 2

More than 2000 years ago when Jesus was alive, the world never recognized him or not give their ear to his thoughts. Instead of that he was crucified by a group of cowards. Right now, the thoughts and his actions are being utilized for material and financial benefits. If at least, 1% of Jesus teachings was implemented in the life of our political and religious leaders, then the world will be a better place. Unfortunately, they are finding happy in the dealing of weapons of mass destruction.

If our leaders are just opposite to the teachings of Jesus, then what will be the attitude of a common man! Friend, as you and I think of a better world where there is no pain, no sorrows, no blood shed will remain in the dreams.

Answer 3

I agree entirley. I am not christian, I am agnostic and yet I often find myself following the teachings of Jesus. He was an incredible man (but a man no less in my opinion.)

He was a revolutionary, a philosopher, he was ahead of his time and seemed to be perfect in so many ways. Although the bible is only a short collection of the entire, millions of manuscripts written about Jesus's life.

No matter what you believe there is nothing wrong with adearing to the words 'Love your enemy' and 'turn the other cheek' Seriously guys if we all just listened and followed that, there would be no need for all the other crap that gets shoved along with Christ's name.

Messiah or not. The guy was cool, and his teaching's are more than just relevant...They are indespesible.

Answer 4

The exhortation to 'love thy neighbour' isn't unique to Jesus' teachings. and in fact the international does no longer unavoidably be a greater ideal place. people, human beings, thrive on opposition. with out healthful opposition, we would nevertheless be residing interior the jungle ingesting end result and vegetables. And to be aggressive, can't merely pass around loving one yet another. besides the shown fact that, somewhat greater toleration could be a stable element, and that i think of that replaced into the actual which potential of affection Thy Neighbour.

Answer 5

You mean the teachings that were around for hundreds of years before he arrived and were hijacked by him and his followers?

Why do you think he was the first to talk about love and mercy? Ever read Plato? He was around 500 years before Jesus and talked about the very same things. So did all the eastern religions that predate him.

Yes, I believe in love and compassion and mercy, I just don't attribute them to Jesus because he is not the originator of theose thoughts.

Anyone with any common sense comes to the same conclusions

Answer 6

Do you respect Krishna's teachings of Love, mercy, comapassion and piousness ??

Do you respect Buddha's teachings of Love, mercy, comapassion and piousness???

Do you respect Mohammad's teachings of Love, mercy, comapassion and piousness???

Do you respect Guru Nanak's teachings of Love, mercy, comapassion and piousness ??

Hypocricy?? or narrow Mind? or simple idiocy?

Answer 7

No it whould not be a better place. I grew up with christian mentality, even the *liberal christians* are nuts. Im a Pagan and i respect nature and the world the GODS created which is more than what i can say for any christian.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

No. Piousness, in particular, is a diversion of resources from more useful endeavors.

Answer 10

Definitely. Who can question that if everyone took up the principles of nonjudgement, love of others, and compassion that the world wouldn't be a better place? The problem is, people have many different ways of following his "teachings", and not everyone interprets them the same way.

Take the Catholic Church, for example. You would think of all people they would have been following Christ's teachings . . . right? Then how do we explain that during the Inquisition they executed 3-5 million women in Christ's name? (Burned alive as "witches".)

But I do think if people actually followed his teachings, the world would be a better place. The problem is that actually becoming a Christian in no ways indicates a stronger tendency to follow his teachings. Even today, George Bush started the Iraq war saying that "God" told him to do so. Bush is a Christian, is bombing the Iraqi people Christ's message? Do you really believe Christ told him to do so?!! Sheesh, even Hitler was a Christian (and forced school prayer I might add).

So if we took Bush's interpretation of Christ's teachings, or the Catholic Church's during the Inquisition, or any other numerous sources of war, murder, torture, and cruelty done in Christ's name as the accurate understanding of Christ's teachings, then obviously the world would not be a better place if everyone were to follow them.

But in my opinion, one of two things happens when people pervert Christ's message in his name, whether that be Hitler or the Catholic Church. Either they are using Christ to further their own agendas, or they believe in his teachings, but only extend them to certain groups of people. So, for example, Hitler did a great deal of evil, but he loved the German people and made their lives better for a time. Many Christians, I think, really try to live up to the standard of loving your neighbor as they love themselves. The problem is, that Iraqi kid who just got his legs blown off doesn't really "count" in their minds as a "neighbor". The Catholic Church during the middle ages loved its members, and tried to live up to Jesus' teachings with regard to them, but it feared and hated those outside of its fold, they didn't see nonchristians as people to whom to extend the teachings of Christ to. The early United States citizens were mostly Christian, but they didn't really feel that negroes were "people" and thus didn't extend Christ's love to them.

So for Jesus Christ's teachings to really make the world a better place, they would have to be understood in a global, universal spiritual sense. That is, when Christ says love your neighbor as yourself, he meant love everyone, and perhaps everything, that way. Don't just extend that love to your family members, or people of your ethnicity or nation, but all people. Even an ethnocentric understanding of Christ's teachings can make a particular society better. The German people had little to no crime in their society, because the citizens believed in being kind to their neighbors (unfortunately, the "Jews" didn't count). But the world is made of many nations, and many ethnicities, so that only with that universal understanding would the world as a whole be made better.

Answer 11

of course if we could be allowed to follow his basic message of love thy God and love thy neighbor as thyself .that is really the whole law .
the thing is mohammed and buddha also were enlightened teachers for their cultures and they send the same message but no one listens ,everyone simply wants to be RIGHT .
and to force others to there way of thinking .being open to others is to understand that all people have a desire to believe in something bigger then themselves .and just because one calls there God a different name doesnt mean they do not have high beliefs ,,,,,,there is one God/higher spiritual being .to which we are all a part of,,, labeling is a human thing .