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1 | What if Jesus was born in 1971? | Matt 22:42 | Aixen7z4 | 115108 | ||
What would have happened if Jesus had been born in 1971? My point is, to get to it, that his passion would be happening right about now. He would have been despised and rejected of men. He would have been put to grief. They would have crucified him. The fantastic fact is, it would have been the religious leaders who would have called for his death. They’d want his religion, but not him. They would have read the prophecies of his coming and would have been discussing and debating it. But when he arrived they would not have recognized him or accepted him. Perhaps that is why he will not arrive the second time the same way. In any case he is not coming back to die, but to reign. But I wonder if we accept him these days, when he comes to the door and knocks, as in Revelation 3:20. I wonder if he is not knocking now, using a stick labeled “The Passion of the Christ”. We can talk about that stick, and we can debate whether or not it is a stick. But do we open the door when he knocks? To get back to the original question: Can you imagine what would happen if Jesus were here in the flesh today, and about 33 years of age? If I may, I would suggest it would give rise to other questions. What kind of treatment would he get? And how would we record and explain and exploit and publicize the public beating? What would it be like if Jesus were here in the body in 2004? Would he not have been treated the same way? And how would we plan now to proclaim the Gospel: his death and burial and resurrection, the demand for repentance and his offer of forgiveness? |
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2 | What if Jesus was born in 1971? | Matt 22:42 | EdB | 115146 | ||
One thing we know for sure this wouldn't be the year 2004 AD Anything else is as Kalos said idle speculation which serves no purpose. EdB |
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3 | What if Jesus was born in 1971? | Matt 22:42 | Aixen7z4 | 115151 | ||
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? But these responses are becoming quite predictable. The idea that no idea arising outside the brains of the fabulous four can have any purpose is beginning to sound suspicious. Repetitive, redundant, and suspicious. What if these responses are actually geared to block or discourage any ideas that they did not initiate or find it difficult to control? I submit to you, my friends, that the issue of Jesus Christ coming today is live. I suggest to you, besides, that it is the most important issue facing us. Far beyond the demonstration of our knowledge of Scripture, there is the issue of the way a person today responds to Christ. Jesus not only suffered and died. He rose again, and he lives today. He ever lives, and he waits for those who would come to God by him, today. He stands at the door and knocks, and he waits for those who would invite him in, today. If you tell us that this is an issue of idle speculation, you are doing us a great disservice. Please desist. And please do not reinterpret the question for me, that I have asked. I know what I asked and I know what the intention was. Those who view the movie, and those who talk about it have a live issue to deal with and it is this: What do you do with what you have seen? How do you respond to the living Christ? Jesus died some 2,000 years ago, but his death is an ever-present reality, and we must respond to it. Let us not treat it as history. Those who do would have missed the point. God has put the death of Christ back in our faces today so we can deal with it. As if it had just happened. Please let me say what I want to say, and let those who wish to respond to it do so. Please do us the favor of letting those of us who want to think so think that the question and the message is not irrelevant, but pressing and important. Surely you have noted that there is at least one person who thinks the question is not a matter of idle speculation. By the grace of God there will be others. Please do not try to nullify us with your depreciatory statements. |
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4 | What if Jesus was born in 1971? | Matt 22:42 | EdB | 115155 | ||
Aixen7z4 Think about what your asking, this is a Bible Study forum not Christian what if forum. What if Jesus were born in 1971? Well we all would still need of salvation from sin unless Jesus had already died and was resurrected and the date would be changed. However since everything that happened to Jesus happened as prophesized in the Old Testament those things would have happen today. Or else the Old Testament would be proven false. More importantly Jesus couldn't have been born at any other time in history because previous prophecy predicted exactly when Jesus would appear. Daniel's 70 weeks. Do people need salvation today? Absolutely but this is not what you asked. Are people just as capable of making the same mistakes today as were made with Jesus? Absolutely , what took place with Jesus took place because of the fallen nature of man. Had Jesus not come when he did and had we not got saved as we have, we too would be standing in the crowd calling for His blood. Think about what you asked. EdB |
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