I see Jesus as a situationalist. He believed that following the law was good, but following the law to a point where you are starving yourself because you can't afford food and will not steal bread to eat was not.
2007-05-11 10:42:35 · 8 answers · asked by sunscour 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hey ray, im not talking about corn. Im talking about stealing bread. If I was talking about corn I would have given the bible verse. Some bibles say it was wheat by the way.
2007-05-11 10:59:04 · update #1
my public, actually he never says that
He eats with a sinner, cries because the pharisees are prostituting his church, and turns over the tables that were collecting money.
2007-05-11 11:04:13 · update #2
If you interpret his words as a philosopher, which is a valid point of view, he was primarily a compassionate ethicist. His view was generally consistent with what we call the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
His philosophy was best summed up in the Sermon on the Mount, the so-called beatitudes. "Blessed are the . . ." is an old-fashioned way to recommend the behavior described.
But then philosophy is more than mere ethics. He seems to have been at least as hard to figure in terms of his view of the nature of the universe and of man as his followers have made him out to be. If you take the words of the gospels as accurate transcriptions of his words, you get a creator-God who is not well described, but with whom he claimed to have a very personal relationship. However, he also seemed to claim that such a personal relationship was the destiny of the apostles (the Holy Spirit as conveying a set of somewhat Superman abilities), and that it was the possible destiny of any person who earnestly sought such an intimacy with the Divine.
I don't think he was well understood in his day, and certainly not since. He was a Magus, a man of wisdom and compassion, and even those who do not consider themselves Christians in any relevant sense can honor his spirit.
2007-05-11 10:53:33 · answer #1 · answered by auntb93 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no. I see Jesus as God. and if you are referring to Jesus and the corn on the Sabbath, you're misinterpreting it: don't be weighted down by tradition, but be devoted to God and take care of yourself; food is more important than piety, but you should never steal for any reason. try an honest day's work or an iou.
2007-05-11 17:46:59 · answer #2 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many times and in many ways did Jesus talk about his Father in heaven, so obviously, whoever he was, he wasn't God.
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I....Jn.14. 28
The worse blind is not the one that can't see, but the one that won't see. As for his philosophy, I don't see anything wrong with it. He's just been, like many other philosophers, very misunderstood.
Good luck!
2007-05-11 21:21:22 · answer #3 · answered by Alex 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I see him as a smarmy politician. Any politician that asks his followers to kill those that would not vote for him is a evil leader. That's exactly what Jesus did in Luke 19. He spicifically says to slay those who do not wish for him to be king.
2007-05-11 17:47:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its all in the ten commands but there was that time when the lamb was lost on the Lords day and he said help it to be found
2007-05-11 17:45:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was a philospsher, but he had to lay the path into people's existing beliefs, instead of walking the path, they just expounded on their beliefs, thanks a lot Paul
2007-05-11 17:49:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only see Jesus as the Almighty God in the Flesh ,He is the only God who claimed to be man !
2007-05-11 17:48:07 · answer #7 · answered by Terry S 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
huh?
2007-05-11 17:46:58 · answer #8 · answered by farleefarkle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋