2007-12-19 11:17:01 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
. : Point well taken.
2007-12-19 11:22:15 · update #1
Wyvern1313: Those are pretty much my thoughts too...
2007-12-19 11:23:36 · update #2
craig g: Well, for those of us who aren't Christians, we sort of assume he's dead, and doesn't know what's happened.
2007-12-19 11:24:29 · update #3
icarus62: That's a mouthful. A mouthful with not a little wisdom in it.
2007-12-19 11:27:49 · update #4
As Robert Green Ingersoll said:
"If Christ was in fact God, he knew all the future. Before him like a panorama moved the history yet to be. He knew how his words would be interpreted. He knew what crimes, what horrors, what infamies, would be committed in his name. He knew that the hungry flames of persecution would climb around the limbs of countless martyrs. He knew that thousands and thousands of brave men and women. would languish in dungeons in darkness, filled with pain. He knew that the church would invent and use instruments of torture; that his followers would appeal to whip and *****, to chain and rack. He saw what creeds would spring like poisonous fungi from every text. He saw the ignorant sects waging war against each other. He saw thousands of men, under the orders of priests, building prisons for their fellow-men. He saw thousands of scaffolds dripping with the best and bravest blood. He saw his followers using the instruments of pain. He heard the groans -- saw the faces white with agony. He heard the shrieks and sobs and cries of all the moaning, martyred multitudes. He knew that commentaries would be written on his words with swords, to be read by the light of ******. He knew that the Inquisition would be born of the teachings attributed to him."
"He saw the interpolations and falsehoods that hypocrisy would write and tell. He saw all wars that would be waged, and knew that above these fields of death, these dungeons, these rackings, these burnings, these executions, for a thousand years would float the dripping banner of the cross."
"He knew that hypocrisy would be robed and crowned -- that cruelty and credulity would rule the world; knew that liberty would perish from the earth; knew that popes and kings in his name would enslave the souls and bodies of men; knew that they would persecute and destroy the discoverers, thinkers and inventors; knew that his church would extinguish reason's holy light and leave the world without a star."
"He saw his disciples extinguishing the eyes of men, flaying them alive, cutting out their tongues, searching for all the nerves of pain."
"He knew that in his name his followers would trade in human flesh; that cradles would be robbed and women's breasts unbabed for gold."
"And yet he died with voiceless lips."
"Why did he fail to speak? Why did he not. tell his disciples, and through them the world: 'You shall not burn, imprison and torture in my name. You shall not persecute your fellowmen.'"
"Why did he not plainly say: I am the Son of God,' or, 'I am God?' Why did he not explain the Trinity? Why did he not tell the mode of baptism that was pleasing to him? Why did he not write a creed? Why did he not break the chains of slaves? Why did he not say that the Old Testament was or was not the inspired word of God? Why did he not write the New Testament himself? Why did he leave his words to ignorance, hypocrisy and chance? Why did he not say something positive, definite and satisfactory about another world? Why did he not, turn the tear-stained hope of heaven into the glad knowledge of another life? Why did he not tell us something of the rights of man, of the liberty of hand and brain?"
"Why did he go dumbly to his death, leaving the world to misery and to doubt?"
"I" will tell you why. He was a man, and did not know."
2007-12-19 11:20:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
He would be horrified that he, a practising Jew until the day he died, has been deified as the Christian messiah and that today, SOME Christians are now insulting me when I as a Jew, try politely to explain that Jewish religious law alone gets to define Judaism. Christianity doesn't get to define Judaism.
If someone accepts Jesus as messiah, that's fine - it doesn't make you better or worse than me or anyone else. But it does make you NOT JEWISH. If you accept Jesus as son of G-d, you have instantly gone against Judaism.
Rant over :)
2007-12-19 19:24:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
He would be horrified to see that his religion was the target of such vile hatred during the centuries, culminating with the Holocaust.
2007-12-19 19:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by Benji 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He would think the devil really did his job well and man is weak minded cause God cant make us follow him he gave us free will but he can tell us what he wants but that has been drowned in b.s. and lies so everyone is confused on what the creator wants from us
2007-12-19 19:28:12 · answer #4 · answered by THE TRUTH 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus is alive and well. He observes events as God does and intervenes in a manner consistent with how a person desires to grow, when asked.
He is still doing a marvelous job.
2007-12-19 19:30:54 · answer #5 · answered by Starte Christ 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
He'd think, "Woah, people have taken my jokes way too seriously."
2007-12-19 19:19:31 · answer #6 · answered by Ode to the Damned® ÆA NR 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure he thinks it's a job well done, but with much left to do.
2007-12-19 19:19:49 · answer #7 · answered by Son of David 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I imagine he'd be happy with the hatred and killing done in his name.
2007-12-19 19:21:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
you mean if he was real? if had even a shred of decency in his bones, he would commit suicide over the guilt of spawning a hate-cult.
2007-12-19 19:20:26 · answer #9 · answered by noitall 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He knows what impact he has had, He is alive and well.
2007-12-19 19:42:27 · answer #10 · answered by Not perfect, just forgiven 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋