Was Jesus Misunderstood?

Question

1. Did he ever say he came to die for everyones sins while he was alive?

2. Did he ever ask for anyone to worship him like God?

3. Did he want people to worship God through his flesh or through following his deeds?

4. Did he ever say that mankind will no longer sin if they believed in him?

Answer 1

To counter the first responder statement: Jesus existed. Even ancient Roman and Jewish documents describe mention Him

To answer your good questions:
1. The words as recorded by the Apostle John in the 16th verse of the 3rd chapter of his Gospel are Jesus speaking. Here is my translation the original Greek with all its connotations and denotations: "For (the) God loved/cherished the world/universe/mankind, He gave His one-and-only/unique Son so that one who believes will not die but will have eternal life." That's the best my Greek can translate.
2. Jesus never DEMANDED worship, but He never stopped those who publicly worship Him as God.
3. TRUE worship is not just confined to singing hymns in church. It is living a life of love the pleases Him. The Hebrew word praise is "avodah," which also means "work." Thus all are work should be be praise to God. It should be ethical, done in love, and should give God the glory.
4. No, He never stated that. The only part of Scripture that speaks about that is form the Apostle Paul. He tells us that those who accept Him will receive a second nature, which can also be translated as soul. (Romans 7:20-25) The original is selfish and strives to do evil that pleases self. The new loves God and seeks to do good that pleases God. Life afterward is an endless struggle between the 2 sides that only ends directly after you die. The good goes to Heaven. The original dies away.

I hope this helps. Take care and God bless.

PS As a student of Greek and Hebrew, I would suggest the Amplified Bible because it gives all the possible connotations and denotations of the words for maximum meaning.
PPS Throughout the years, Jesus sayings have notchanged at all. In fact, the New Testament has nearly 26,000 ancient texts in Greek (The Illiad only has 650 total), Aramenian, Ehtiopic, etc... They all say 99.5% the SAME thing. The variations are very minor (For example, if "John" in Greek is spelled with 1 "n" or 2.) but they all say the same thing.

Answer 2

1. Not that I recall but the Apostle Paul said that in 1 Cor 15:3

2. He never asked, but He did accept worship. And He did things that only God could do, like forgive sin.

3. Both actually.

4. No, but he did say that we would live forever.

Pastor Art

Answer 3

1. John 16:21--
2. John 16:13--
3. Mark 1:17, Matt 28:19, John 3:16-17,1 John4:11, John 14:16
4. No, He knows that we need Him. He died for all of our sins. We need to accept Him as our Lord and Savior. Paul tells how to become a Christian and James goes more into detail how to go about after that. : )

Answer 4

He was often misunderstood by His followers. They asked him many times in private what the parables he taught to the multitudes meant. Even after he explained the meaning they would argue about it among themselves. His message was that the kingdom of God is within us. This means that we all have the Spirit of truth to show us the way. It requires effort to block the truth from our consciousness. Most people are not really looking for the truth. Are you?

Answer 5

It's very interesting question. There is not a single evidence of any such thing/saying that you wrote. All we know about Jesus is through books, called Bible, that can't be directly related to him as they were not only several in number, but were also written after his (apparent) death when there was no source or way to verify the writers' claims.

Answer 6

Yes indeed Jesus was the most misunderstood person to walk the face of the earth. Even his own relatives accused HIM of being out of his mind.

Answer 7

no he didnt ask to be worshiped nor did he came to sacrifice , he came with the holy book the bible to ask people to worship one god who created everything including himself