Jesus – controversial messiah
I don’t believe in a messiah who once says:
“I and the Father are one,” or: “That all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.”
and at other time:
“Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.”
I don’t believe in a messiah who once says:
“Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you”
and at other time:
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be those of his own household”, or “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.”
I don’t believe in a messiah who once says:
“Whoever is not with me is against me”
and at other time:
“Whoever is not against us is with us”
I do not believe in a messiah who once teaches his disciples to avoid violence, saying:
“Put away your sword. All who take the sword will die by the sword”
and other time he tells them to arm themselves:
“Anyone who has money should take it and his bag too. Anyone who has no sword should sell his coat and buy one”
I do not believe in a messiah who once teaches people to highly value their life in this world, saying:
“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?”
and other time he tells to hate it:
“He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life”
I do not believe in a messiah who once teaches not to accumulate wealth, even to give it to the poor:
“Sell your possessions and give to those in need” or: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal”
and another time he says on this subject:
“For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away”
Moreover, I do not believe in a messiah who proclaimed during his life in this world that the kingdom of God would come soon, before his contemporary generation had died out and before his disciples had gone through all the cities of Israel, but which has not come yet.
I do not also believe in a messiah who proclaimed that the Mosaic law was holy and inviolable, and at the same time he changed some of its fundamental principles.
And finally, I do not believe in a messiah who never once, on any occasion, condemned the inhumane slave system prevailing in the Greco-Roman world during his life and ministry.
Taking into account all his false promises and predictions, as well as the contradictions in his statements and behavior, I come to the conclusion that he was an unbalanced, inconsistent, even crazy individual. Several dozen years after his death, the priests wrote down his speeches, embellished them, presenting them to the world as holy, infallible and saving teachings. But you only need to analyze them more carefully to come to the conclusion that they do not fit into such a category at all.
Jerzy Sędziak, June 2024
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