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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 4/24/2002 1:25 AM (GMT -6) |   | Meph, or anybody.... (I get CTs e-mail)
Here is the question of the week for Christianity Today's e-mail...
CT Open Line this week: Was Jesus nice while on earth? Is God nice? Write and tell us what you think.
OPEN LINE
Nice Is Not The Point
By CT Columnist Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
From Christianity Today magazine, November 13, 2000
Some time ago I read the synoptic Gospels with a group of
literature students, only a few of whom professed to be
"reasonably familiar" with the material in those books. We
made our way through the Nativity stories, the Sermon on the
Mount, the miracles, and the teachings. We struggled through
some of Jesus' "hard sayings" and disconcerting acts, such as
withering the fig tree and casting demons into swine. ("They
were innocent swine!" someone protested. "They belonged to
some innocent pig farmer!") I was glad for the chance to
retrieve some of the shock value of stories so often flattened
in an effort to make them palatable.
As the unit on the Gospels drew to a close, I asked the
professing Christians, "How has this reading of these accounts
of Jesus' life and ministry changed your understanding of
him?" A hand went up. "I don't know exactly how to put this,"
the young woman mused, "but this isn't the Jesus I grew up
with. He doesn't seem very ... nice."
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