2007-06-27 09:51:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Depends on the translation. The Jesus of Mark was very interesting. He was a tortured soul, who died a horrible death and was a very human being. That Jesus I love, because he was true in his humanity and his humility. The Jesus of John however, was a very different person. Mystical, aloof, and off times absurdly vague, John portrays someone who should be worshiped, not someone we should know or understand. That Jesus I can leave, he would be completely useless to me, as he would not be human or reachable, or real.
2007-06-27 09:56:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was a progressive thinker, a moral philosopher, and yes, an all -around good guy, as he was portrayed in the Bible. Was he the son of God Almighty? No, that I don't believe, any more than I believe that Allah granted Mohammed, or Yahweh granted Abraham, any special insights or gifts. I don't think Moses parted the Red Sea, nor did Noah save us from the great flood. Nearly all religious teachings can trace their origins back to earlier or contemporary myths and folklore, so I can't take the Bible literally. Therefore, Jesus may have been a complete jerk-off, but I'll never know. What I do know is he had a good message, and if more Christians followed his teachings we'd have a more tolerant world.
2007-06-27 16:59:27 · answer #2 · answered by sacredvanity 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As he is portrayed in the Bible, which is the sole source in which to find serious references to him, Jesus was one of many 'street' preachers at the outset of what would come to be known as the first century AD. Aside from his black magic tricks, the 'miracles,' and especially walking on water and raising the dead back to life, his teachings were scarcely original. Similar instructions had been around for centuries, both in Judaism of the time and in Greek drama and philosophy, in the several Persian religions, and certainly in China and India. To my mind, the Beatitudes, the Sermon of the Mount, is worth not only a read but also observance especially by Fundies, among whom those wise words are often left rotting on the vine.
2007-06-27 17:03:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
To a point, but much of the good things he said were things already around in other cultures, mainly the far east style teachings. His "be good to one another" stuff is straight out of Buddhists teachings, so are parables. I'm convinced he spent time ther or read some teachings from there at some point.
He still hung on to some of the violent ideas from his OT teachings and that doesn't impress me.
2007-06-27 16:56:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was a great man, and even as an atheist, if you live your life by the key principles that Jesus taught, you will live a just and moral life.
2007-06-27 16:54:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Eesh, I haven't read it. I can only go by what I've seen on TV or learned in church/ccd.
In CCD, he sounded quite boring, humdrum and inhuman. Very detached. Blah.
On TV, he seemed ok. Very nice and all but not very approachable.
In JCSS he was very hot. Yet still rather untouchable.....
2007-06-27 16:57:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a good man at all. He hung around with the Siccari. The Siccari were terrorist assassins.
http://www.geocities.com/aleph135/zealots.html
2007-06-27 17:03:35 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jebus seems pretty cool, except for all that preachy GAWD mess. He must have got his hands on some real crazy acid to trick all those people into seeing those funky, psychedelic tricks he was doing.
2007-06-27 16:58:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is someone I would honest like to emulate. Can you imagine the harem he must have had?
2007-06-27 16:57:58 · answer #9 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was the protagonist in that science fiction story, a little more likeable than paul atreides.
2007-06-27 16:56:31 · answer #10 · answered by PoseidenNeptuneReturns 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋