When I was about seven or eight, I attended a Passover service at my church. There was apparently a tradition that the oldest son was supposed to go out and see if the Messiah was here. I, confused and bemused, played along. My dad, the pastor, looped it back to our belief that He has already come. I remember thinking "This is really dumb and weird. Who are they looking for if Jesus already came?"
Our beliefs are fundamentally incompatible. The very foundation of our beliefs, they reject and keep looking for someone "better." Saying "Christ is King" in a confrontational way probably isn't the best use of His name, but it does highlight the fact that we truly don't serve the same God. Or maybe, to be more precise, they don't serve God, they try to pull shenanigans on Him.
The very foundation of our beliefs, they reject and keep looking for someone "better."
Not just reject, they put it on record that they outright hate him and believe he burns in pig shit in hell. A truly vile level belief for a guy who even if you don't believe was probably one of the most milquetoast and good religious figures in history in terms of message.
Jesus's entire ministry on earth was rebuking the Pharisees, scribes, and Sadducees, right to their faces, calling them liars, hypocrites, prideful, sinful, children of satan, a den of vipers, murderers and thieves, unworthy of the kingdom of God. He flipped their tables, whipped them, and threw them out of the temple. He pissed them off so much they conspired to murder Him, but Jesus had so much public support they could only snatch Him in the middle of the night. And, Revelation paints how brutal Jesus will be toward His enemies when He returns.
When I was about seven or eight, I attended a Passover service at my church. There was apparently a tradition that the oldest son was supposed to go out and see if the Messiah was here. I, confused and bemused, played along. My dad, the pastor, looped it back to our belief that He has already come. I remember thinking "This is really dumb and weird. Who are they looking for if Jesus already came?"
Our beliefs are fundamentally incompatible. The very foundation of our beliefs, they reject and keep looking for someone "better." Saying "Christ is King" in a confrontational way probably isn't the best use of His name, but it does highlight the fact that we truly don't serve the same God. Or maybe, to be more precise, they don't serve God, they try to pull shenanigans on Him.
Not just reject, they put it on record that they outright hate him and believe he burns in pig shit in hell. A truly vile level belief for a guy who even if you don't believe was probably one of the most milquetoast and good religious figures in history in terms of message.
Jesus, milquetoast?
Have you read the Bible?
The modern judaized Christian church certainly likes to portray Jesus as some peace loving pacifist hippy, but that is the opposite of the truth.
"If you're not carrying a piece, sell the shirt off your back and get a gat instead." -Jesus, but, you know, actually unironically, look it up.
Jesus's entire ministry on earth was rebuking the Pharisees, scribes, and Sadducees, right to their faces, calling them liars, hypocrites, prideful, sinful, children of satan, a den of vipers, murderers and thieves, unworthy of the kingdom of God. He flipped their tables, whipped them, and threw them out of the temple. He pissed them off so much they conspired to murder Him, but Jesus had so much public support they could only snatch Him in the middle of the night. And, Revelation paints how brutal Jesus will be toward His enemies when He returns.