In this scenario Jesus (called Joshua, or Josh for short) has been born in a backwater Texas town to Liam and Charlotte. Liam is a self employed electrician and Charlotte works at the local food bank.
Josh grows up and believes he has been born with a special purpose and message which is to bring Christians of today back to a complete understanding of God and to reconcile humanity through sacrificing his life in some way. As in the bible account of Jesus preaching, Josh’s message is tough for some to hear and resistance grows against him.
How would this play out in today’s America given the state of the country, Christianity and the backdrop of the global environment?
@divegeester saidHuman nature is a constant in my opinion, so it would be pretty much the same as Jesus experienced in the bible. There would be religious hypocrites, false prophets, blind leading the blind, Good Samaritans, the poor and needy, the righteous on the straight and narrow etc etc.
In this scenario Jesus (called Joshua, or Josh for short) has been born in a backwater Texas town to Liam and Charlotte. Liam is a self employed electrician and Charlotte works at the local food bank.
Josh grows up and believes he has been born with a special purpose and message which is to bring Christians of today back to a complete understanding of God and to recon ...[text shortened]... y’s America given the state of the country, Christianity and the backdrop of the global environment?
@divegeester saidexcellent!
In this scenario Jesus (called Joshua, or Josh for short) has been born in a backwater Texas town to Liam and Charlotte. Liam is a self employed electrician and Charlotte works at the local food bank.
Josh grows up and believes he has been born with a special purpose and message which is to bring Christians of today back to a complete understanding of God and to recon ...[text shortened]... y’s America given the state of the country, Christianity and the backdrop of the global environment?
the color of josh's skin will make a difference in how he's heard
what color is josh's skin?
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The battle today over truth is less that God became a man.
Though that is still an issue with those who do not believe either in God or the incarnation.
Though the religionists of Jesus of Nazareth's day was opposition to God becomming a man, today the religionists mostly fight with another objection. They don't believe that the man could become a life giving Spirit.
Though "The Word became flesh" (John 1:14) was hard for the religionists of the past to teke, today it is that "the last Adam became a life giving Spirit" (1 Cor. 15:45) which is the target of their skepticism.
"God could not becme a man" was their doubt then.
"The Man could not become a life giving Spirit to give Himself to us" is their doubt today.
@sonship saidIf Jesus came today and appeared in front of you, you would neither recognize, nor accept His teachings. You would be counted among those who condemned, persecuted and crucified Him.
The battle today over truth is less that God became a man.
Though that is still an issue with those who do not believe either in God or the incarnation.
Though the religionists of Jesus of Nazareth's day was opposition to God becomming a man, today the religionists mostly fight with another objection. They don't believe that the man could become a life giving Spirit.
...[text shortened]... then.
"The Man could not become a life giving Spirit to give Himself to us" is their doubt today.
@divegeester saidHe wouldn't be 30 til 2052 so he'd either be a regular guy or dead
In this scenario Jesus (called Joshua, or Josh for short) has been born in a backwater Texas town to Liam and Charlotte. Liam is a self employed electrician and Charlotte works at the local food bank.
Josh grows up and believes he has been born with a special purpose and message which is to bring Christians of today back to a complete understanding of God and to recon ...[text shortened]... y’s America given the state of the country, Christianity and the backdrop of the global environment?
@karoly-aczel saidLet’s assume he’s 30 now, you know just for the sake of discussing.
He wouldn't be 30 til 2052 so he'd either be a regular guy or dead
@divegeester saidkaroly aczel has done you up like a kipper... 2022 + 30 = 2052. Sussed and cramped, as we used to say at school in the 70s. I've wet my finger and touched your cheek and it goes ssssszzzzz.
Let’s assume he’s 30 now, you know just for the sake of discussing.
@fmf saidI think I managed to side-step the mind-clamp using an example of Steve Jobs’ famous “reality distortion field”
karoly aczel has done you up like a kipper... 2022 + 30 = 2052. Sussed and cramped, as we used to say at school in the 70s. I've wet my finger and touched your cheek and it goes ssssszzzzz.
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@divegeester saidNo. You posited that he was born in 2022.
Let’s assume he’s 30 now, you know just for the sake of discussing.
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@karoly-aczel saidBy 2052 he might have an easier time getting something across to a mixed audience of different degrees of incarnation along some kind of bio-analog-digital-virtual spectrum.
He wouldn't be 30 til 2052 so he'd either be a regular guy or dead
But as for the initial premises, I think the purported backwater town might not even have 3G in 2022, let alone high-speed internet -- and I think we need more background information re: the local food bank. Did that little town start as a hippie enclave some decades prior to his birth?
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P.S. -- If you have been trying to bring people to Christ, tbh I think you could do a lot better.
Or, if you had Christianity forced on you and you have left the faith behind, what's it to you what other people believe?
@kevin-eleven saidIndeed. And then I said let’s assume he’s 30 now.
No. You posited that he was born in 2022.