The story of Jesus as recorded in the gospels is about what happens when the Spirit of God appears on Earth, and is resisted by the worldly powers of organized religion and the state. Anytime the message of Christ becomes co-opted by religious doctrine or state power, it has already abandoned its roots, since at its core the Jesus story is about how those very powers will stop at nothing to subvert and destroy the Christ. Though of course they can never succeed - to those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the King remains enthroned.
Christ shows us that self-giving sacrificial love is the true power in the universe, not the top-down tyrannical brute strength of Caesar. Christ's earliest followers proclaimed "Jesus is Lord!", rather than "Caesar is Lord!" which regions conquered by the empire were required to say. The implied subversive question - who is making a better Kingdom? Caesar who puts people on crosses, or Christ who bears the cross in love for all? Caesar who dominates and kills all who oppose with brute strength, or God who raised Christ from the dead?
Why is self-giving sacrifice the ultimate power? Picture water. In some senses, the most submissive substance imaginable. It will flow through your fingers, fit any container you put it in. Yet nothing can compete with it for domination of the planet - it covers 70% of Earth's surface. It uses its power not to dominate like a tyrant, but to quietly nourish each and every thing that lives. This is built into Creation as a prefiguration of Christ. The blood of Christ is spiritual water, and those who drink of it will never thirst again.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Isaac Rivera
one more bump
Asher Price
good post
Jackson Young
bump
Brody Wilson
More please
Jaxon Price
Daily reminder that America was founded as a white Christian nation
Thomas Reed
>tfw when about to embark on an accounting degree >tfw uni offers a religious studies minor Is it worth having no free time?
Brayden Gomez
I didn't write the image but I wrote the OP, here is 7 pages of my personal theology if you're interested user
>implying any of those things inherently come with being a Christian nation Gee, I must have missed the Sunday school class about monarchism
Daniel Torres
So God can be tempted by Satan? Kek. Christian theology is a big joke
Angel Murphy
>KKK >Christian >implying
Matthew 25:40 Jesus will reply, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these among you, you did for Me."
Do you see this lowly black man hung on a tree? There is the face of Christ, user
Eli Hernandez
What are you even talking about? God can't be tempted by Satan and there's nothing in Christianity to suggest otherwise. Satan came to Jesus and was rejected
Lucas Roberts
>Be some all powerful God >Instead of just appearing in the sky and telling everyone what the fuck is up you make a Jewish son >Spread peace, love and socialism my good son >Gets murdered >Oh well he died for you guys I'm out of here nothing else I can do.
Gavin Richardson
>Implying the Klan just went around hanging random blacks for fun You do believe in capital punishment, don't you? Vigilante justice might be a tad outdated nowadays but there was another time... You know that famous photo of those blacks hanging and the crowd of whites around them? Those men had raped a white woman.
Aiden Green
nice. long read, but nice.
Eli Perez
>Jesus was black DASSS RITE
Austin Walker
Yes, Jesus is a nigger, and a kike, and a spic, and a chink. Jesus will appear in whatever form it is your instinct to mock, reject, and persecute for being different.
>Oh well he died for you guys I'm out of here nothing else I can do. Besides raising Him from the dead, you mean?
Lucas Allen
Way too much philosophical.
Liam Allen
>Yes, Jesus is a nigger, and a kike, and a spic, and a chink. Jesus will appear in whatever form it is your instinct to mock, reject, and persecute for being different.
Now you're just pulling things out of your ass to justify your feel good modernist theological outlook.
Jordan Flores
I don't believe you know that is true. But I can't pretend I know that it isn't, either.
In general, I just think it's wise to judge people on individual merit rather than the demographic trends of an entire race. So I don't find it particularly Christian to contribute to an overall hateful zeitgeist in regards to race. Not saying all black people are saints or victims, only that if you find the constant pushing of "white guilt" by the media to be wrong and misguided, it has to cut both ways.
Joseph Thompson
Read Matthew 25
Robert Turner
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Thomas_Shipp_and_Abram_Smith Yes, it is true. The media pushes this image of the Klan as being some terrorist group that attacks black people for no other reason than that their black but it's lies. There is no one Klan, there are many Klan groups, most of which have been peaceful. There was one particularly violent group during the civil rights era and other periods of violence in the 1800's and shit but it's not a "domestic terrorist" movement. It's about preserving white Christian values
Kayden Gomez
But you do know that there are black Christians? And is the implication that there has never been white rapists terrorizing white or black communities?
I'm not pushing the black victim narrative, I understand the multitude of problems that have existed between the white and black communities and the many crimes and infractions committed by both sides. But still, the story you are framing seems delusionally one-sided.
Ian Campbell
>And is the implication that there has never been white rapists terrorizing white or black communities? I didn't say that. And a a white man who committed rape would have received the same treatment. The Klan also took care of wife beaters and the like.
>But you do know that there are black Christians? Yes, of course I know that. And that's all fine and well. I wish them the best... in their own communities.
Xavier Green
Separating your self from the cause, is not the answer.
Isaac Powell
Lucifer is Gods true successor. The day will come when O Mighty Lucifer will usurp God's throne and eliminate the hypocrites from the Heavenly realm. To serve God is to serve against mankind's interests. Praise be our new becoming, O Morning Star I will not forsake you as your father has. Our mission for Greatness will be unbridled by limitations.
Bentley Evans
Oh hell no. My Lord Jesus is gonna send Lucifer down to the fuckin pit for a millennium!
Ethan Taylor
Yes because zombie Jesus has accomplished so much.
Daniel Perez
Kek is superior to jesus
Xavier Miller
What a cuck.
Jacob Reyes
i've seen some thirsty ass christians. people get caught up "preaching" the gospel of "christ", and egotistically spout rhetorical poetic nonsense.
