Was Jesus right-brained or left-brained? What a weird question to ask, but it's the thing that keeps me awake at nights. I think most preachers paint him as a left-brained, type-A, person, while music leaders, picture him as the opposite (of course their are exceptions).
For myself, I wonder. Isn't it interesting how much of ourselves we constantly put into Jesus. Think of all those blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jesuses in so many paintings. Or why do people get so irate over the "black Jesus" of Jeremiah Wright?
This all goes back to making gods in OUR image, and Buddhists and Atheists are eating this stuff up! So many people are so guilty of over-teaching the attributes of God/Jesus/Spirit.
For example, JW's say, "God is love, so He wouldn't send people to an eternal Hell." Pacifists say, "God is peace, so all violence is sinful and rebellious." Shouldn't we instead let the Bible tell us and inform us what God means by "love" and "peace"? That is, the WHOLE Bible.
God is not bi-polar, and He does not contradict himself. He does not fit our boxes and categories. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be surprised by what I see when I meet Him, so I'll try to put the brakes on breaking the second commandment in idea form.
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Nice post. I'm surrounded by people who don't want the God of the Bible, or the Jesus of the Bible, so they have a deliberate strategy: they attack the validity of the Bible.
They try to paint the Bible as a book formulated by chaotic manuscript and text histories. Plus, the constantly raise the question, "which Bible?", pointing to the jewish, protestant, catholic, greek orthodox, and mormon canons as being different.
still, i think the questions ultimately comes back to the ideas you've raised here. who is the Jesus of the Bible? why study the Bible in the first place if you're just going to chuck everything you don't like? i'm having a hard time have discussions with people who can say, very forthrightly, "that part of the bible isn't relevant for me" or "that's what you see in the bible, but i see something else?"
everyone wants to quote the Bible, but it seems like no one wants to hear it.
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