do we really kmow jesus the man?


A few questions about the life and times of Jesus always seem to scare people. The question if Jesus was married is one of the leading questions that appear to bother people the most. While the fictional book ‘The Da Vinci Code’ takes a swipe at this subject, a lot of its ‘facts’ have already been proven false. While this attempt at a married Jesus falls through as hollow fiction, that does not mean he wasn’t married. There is no sin in getting married and having sex with your wife. So why do we fear a married Jesus in Christianity?

Does seeing Jesus as a husband make him too human? Well, he was human after all, the son of God, but human none the less. The Savior’s humanity was the whole point of his birth, life, and death, as well as his resurrection. He was a man born without original sin, and he could still lead a life in perfection, fighting off all the vices and temptations we also feel. He became the sacrificial lamb for all our sins. While being perfect, I am sure he was a good Jewish man as well, and Jewish men of the time were expected to be married by their twenties and have children as soon as possible. Our addiction of relating sex with sin has just gone too far. Sex before marriage or with some one other than your spouse is a sin, but sex with your wife is not. Lusting after some one you can not have sex with is also a sin, so we can know Jesus would not have had sex before he was married, cheated on his wife, or let his eyes wonder over any other women.

Another seeming thorn in the Christian side is Judas. I can’t understand why Judas is always depicted as the greatest villain of the New Testament and seemingly hated by all. He did betray Jesus to the Romans, but by some accounts that have recently surfaced Jesus may have asked him to do this. Even without that questionable request, someone had to betray Jesus to be crucified to fulfill all of the Old Testament prophesies. The facts remain in the bible that after the crusification, Judas went back to the temple and returned the thirty pieces of silver that was his reward. The story then gets vague whether he hung himself or was hung to be kept quiet about who paid him to betray the Christ. I believe Judas was murdered after he repented the betrayal, and that would make him a great example of God’s forgiveness when we repent of sins and then God forgives them. I have no doubt Judas has made it to heaven.

I also have to wonder what skin complexion Jesus was and what effect that would have of churches and people’s faith. Most of the churches I have been to seem to either think or just like to advertise that Jesus was white, but was he? Does it even matter? Some, yes definitely some, to the white power people that are so worried about the mud races, how can they worship Jesus, not even thinking about how their ideology is totally out of sync with the teachings of Christ. Just the fact that Jesus is from one of these so called mud races, how do they stand it or do they even comprehend it?

I have watched churches shatter over the most trivial of issues and now we have hundreds of thousands of churches all claiming to be teaching the bible and all believing they are right. Once a church starts making rules that are no part of God’s teachings, doesn’t that make them more secular than spiritual? Churches are more worried about staying in the black on their accounting than they seem to worry about the truth of their teachings and the effect they truly are having on their congregation and community.

With all these churches teaching their own brands of religions, what is going to happen when Christ returns? What are these Christians going to do when they are truly faced with the minions of Satan? When Christianity started out, it was a life and death choice. If you were caught practicing the worshiping of Jesus, you were tortured, jailed, or killed. Today I see people getting mad and leaving a church because the Easter decorations are more purple than yellow or because the music at bingo night is too much like rock and roll, and well, the list goes on and gets even more ridiculous. If you are going to let trivial matters like these affect or even stop your worshiping, you need to take some time out. Clear your life of distractions, read the bible through and through a few time, start researching some of the missing books from the bible and learn some of what is not taught in this country.

Finally I see all these people loving to play with astrology and with psychic palm readers. I think the bible is pretty clear on the fact that if these are not from god then they are from the devil. There is no grey area here. What you may think is just mild entertainment is the slow decay of your morals and your defenses from the things that will attack and wear on you. You have to remember from our birth until our death we are in a war; there is no middle ground, no neutral zone, and no time out. You must remember in everything you do and everything you think you are either serving and honoring God or you are serving and honoring Satan. It is time to get real and choose sides while we still have a choice.