Because he really felt that the Apocalypse was coming in his own day. He longed for and expected a time of great peace, equality, and righteousness and he expected it very soon.
And he died cruelly, and never got to see that time.
And here we are, 2000 years later, and so many people still share his hopes for that time, and yet even now, it has not happened.
Doesn't this make you sad to think about it?
2006-11-03 16:17:51 · 14 answers · asked by Heron By The Sea 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I do. I mean look at what has happened to his creation: poverty, hunger, AIDS, 12 year old prostitutes, etc. The list can go on. It makes me sad and God wanted a perfect world, it just did not happen. The time will come soon. I think the verse "Jesus wept" is aptly suitable for today.
2006-11-03 16:21:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Are you waiting for the Apocalypse? I'm waiting for my pizza. Because pizza is life affirming. It fulfills a need for me to sustain my life at this moment. Life is all about pizza and things like pizza. It's much healthier to contemplate moments, no matter how small and seemingly insignificant, that bring you closer to a thing as simple as quelling hunger pains then to contemplate some myth of the Apocalypse. This man Jesus was just a man like any other man, that might be sitting in a fox hole at this very moment in Iraq, waiting for his personal Apocalypse. Start living for your life and stop dramatizing death, it's just a part of life. Open your mind to reason and read a book by Sam Harris called "Letter to a Christian Nation", it might change your life.
2006-11-03 16:37:06 · answer #2 · answered by Logicnreason 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was a saint and a higher soul who was sent to the half-evolved humans to learn the lessons of love and self-sacrifice
But he was not perfect and he translated the Truth seen, tainted by his own mind's explanation, all of them cant be correct
No one really knows what Jesus actually said..the bible written many years after his death, is more a politically motivated book than Truth
If christian just take Jesus as a great soul...and learn to love and sacrifice themselves for others, they would truely be following Jesus
But alas they are more interested in Rejecting others as ignorants...condemning others to hell and using money and media to spread mis-information and encourage conversion
This is not religion...this is politics...Jesus may be sad seeing all this
2006-11-03 18:39:51 · answer #3 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. Isn't the apocalypse the end of the world? I think it would be better to have great peace, equality and righteousness by man's own volition than by the end of days.
Besides, Christ died to better mankind. Even though alot of people belive he was killed, the bible says that THE LORD gave Jesus to the world. It was destiny so that we will have eternal life.
That's not so bad, is it?
2006-11-03 16:25:16 · answer #4 · answered by reslstancelsfutlle 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2016-10-21 05:50:43 · answer #5 · answered by haan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Jesus did not feel that the apocalypse was coming in his own day. Where are you getting this information? You are talking about when he says things like "soon" this or that will happen? Soon to God is not the same as soon to man. To God, it is so soon that it has already happened, his being outside of time and space. To us, it appears long, because we are trapped inside time and space.
There is no justifiable reason for me to feel pity for my God. That is hubris, and it is vile.
2006-11-03 16:21:27 · answer #6 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus KNEW when it was coming. He KNOWS when great peace, equality, and righteousness will be here. He knows and sees the time. It's coming.
2006-11-03 16:22:16 · answer #7 · answered by Red neck 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No. I cannot feel any SPECIAL kind of sympathy for a guy who died 2000 years ago, and was, at most, one of many guys who were killed cruelly.
I'd rather have a sympathy for those people who are dying now, starving or freezing to death, or dying of cancer in terrible pain. Those are the ones my sympathy is with. And those people do make me feel very sad, because I feel we could have done something about them.
2006-11-03 16:22:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
of course it dose , but if we each find the peace with in our hearts, we don't have to wait on some future event.
the world may never ,get it to gether , but if you in your own heart love your self , and find inner peace, what they do out there in society , wouldn't bother you so much
hi
2006-11-03 16:38:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes--how can so many people live their lives hoping to see everybody else on the planet get obliterated?
2006-11-03 16:39:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋