His message was how we should love one another. He asks us to love God too but He respects our free will.
Tell me your thoughts.
2007-01-27 04:32:30 · 32 answers · asked by SeeTheLight 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus told us about sin and our need to turn from them and to God. People do not want to live by such rules.
2007-01-27 04:58:10 · answer #1 · answered by tim 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
People have hated Jesus since He walked the earth. He said that the world hated Him and because they hated Him, they would hate us, His followers. His message was to love but that pesky free will gets in the way. Some people hate Jesus because they are convicted by what they have heard and it's easier to blame Jesus than to really love your neighbor. It's so much easier to love a friend, but how about an enemy? I think some people get so caught up in hating Jesus that they forget who He is and what He did for us. and don't even realize that new life in Him, means He gives us to love others, even those who flame us on-line.
2007-01-27 04:55:19 · answer #2 · answered by Jan P 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think the reason anyone rejects Jesus, is rooted in the devil. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil (destroyer). And that we could have life and have it more abundantly.
The devil knows this, so the devil pushes buttons.
Also, of course. People also love their sinful life style more than Jesus. When the light (Jesus) is revealed, the light exposes what is in the darkness. These people avoid the light. And reject others in the light. Because they love their dark life style.
2007-01-27 05:17:04 · answer #3 · answered by t a m i l 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
First of all, the Pharisees, because Jesus wanted the lepers and other rejected members of the then society to be allowed into God's House - the Temple. He also objected to money changers in the Temple forecourt. 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God, that which is God's)
Jesus was a rebel, he was probably the first real socialist. You think he'd get a better deal if he came back right now? You've got to be joking!
Chances are he'd end up in Guantanamo!
2007-01-27 04:41:12 · answer #4 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I agree 100%. God is Love.
Yes, we are to love one another (many do not), by loving another we are letting God shine through us. Oh, how good it feels when we know we have helped someone; smile, laugh, eat a meal, buy what they need and cannot afford, give them a hug-just because you care about them, and the list goes on.
To not Love God...No, I do not understand.
I also do not understand how and why some do not believe in God, at all. Look around and you see all the wonders he gave us. Praise God for each day he gives us to experience all his blessings. Praise God, for using us to shine through. GOD ID GOOD!
2007-01-27 04:48:41 · answer #5 · answered by nmd_elkie 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
They hate Jesus for the same reasons they hate M.Gandhi, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and the list goes on and on. We kill our heroes. We kill those who show us a better path. For some insane reason, it is the way of the world.
As to 'As it Is's statement above about the 'The Magdalen Sisters'. That was a time when the church was helping the young women who would have been killed or disowned by their families and left to die on the streets. As late as the 1960 in the U.S. families would disown their daughters for being PG outside of marriage. And it still happens in the Muslim countries in the Middle East today. They kill the girls there. So don't blame this attitude on Jesus.
2007-01-27 04:44:08 · answer #6 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 5⤊ 4⤋
No one among non believers hates Christ and they all acknowledge he was a good man.
Those who hate him are believers in other religions and it is religions that have been the cause of most wars and suffering on this earth.
2007-01-27 06:12:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Is it because they are of the wicked one?
2007-01-27 05:35:18 · answer #8 · answered by Judd M 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I think his message is great, and if his story is true, he was a great person.
My problem is with churches who claim to represent him and are intentionally and secretively using his name as a shield to their wrong doings.
It's one thing to do wrong, but to use God's name and involve innocent, ignorant people for their own selfish causes is the worst. And it does happen.
2007-01-27 04:39:55 · answer #9 · answered by Teaim 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Years ago I happened to be in Highgate Cemetery in London near the grave of Karl Marx and overheard two very ordinary little boys in conversation with a Frenchman, who had clearly come to pay homage to his hero. One of the little boys turned to his companion in incredulity. "He doesn't like Jesus!" he exclaimed. "He must be mad!" Glancing at the man, I saw an expression of acute embarrassment on his face. Against the confident, dismissive attitude of these small boys, he had nothing to say in reply!
"Out of the mouths of babes...."
2007-01-27 04:44:21 · answer #10 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋