I am a Christian, and this is bothering me a bit lately.
I often see Christians portraying Jesus as so tender and gentle. He is nothing but pure love, and never stepped on any toes, never judged (we Christians should dare not judge!), and so forth. Get real.
Jesus physically WHIPPED people out of the temple. He called people sons of serpants, broods of vipers, liars, hypocrites, sinners, and more.
He told a man to let the dead bury his father, and to forget about him. He said that when we preach the gospel and they don't receive it, to dust off our sandals because they will be harshly judged.
He told us that if a brother does not repent after being taken to a church and shown their sin in front of people, to treat that person like a tax collector/pagan (and they did not treat them kindly then).
Why do these warm and fuzzy "love everyone and never judge" Christians gloss over these traits of Jesus' personality? He wasn't that type of guy at all. Period. He was blunt, truthful, and sometimes cold to unrepentant sinners (which makes sense, because after all their end will be the lake of fire).
I often see Christians portraying Jesus as so tender and gentle. He is nothing but pure love, and never stepped on any toes, never judged (we Christians should dare not judge!), and so forth. Get real.
Jesus physically WHIPPED people out of the temple. He called people sons of serpants, broods of vipers, liars, hypocrites, sinners, and more.
He told a man to let the dead bury his father, and to forget about him. He said that when we preach the gospel and they don't receive it, to dust off our sandals because they will be harshly judged.
He told us that if a brother does not repent after being taken to a church and shown their sin in front of people, to treat that person like a tax collector/pagan (and they did not treat them kindly then).
Why do these warm and fuzzy "love everyone and never judge" Christians gloss over these traits of Jesus' personality? He wasn't that type of guy at all. Period. He was blunt, truthful, and sometimes cold to unrepentant sinners (which makes sense, because after all their end will be the lake of fire).