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Jesus Knew Fear?

Posted on | April 4, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Seriously, Mr. President: what in the eternal location of Karl Marx are you talking about: “Like us, Jesus knew doubt. Like us, Jesus knew fear.”
Contrast Matthew 27:46 with Psalm 22 very carefully before contending that Jesus really doubted, or, even at the end, really knew fear. Maybe He did. But to argue past a ‘maybe’ is to take it too far.

No, what strikes the serious reader of the Gospels is that, given a spectrum with Jesus on one end and Pontius Pilate on the other, you, Mr. President, resemble the latter far more than the former.

But we’ll be about affording you copious time to repent after the first Tuesday in November.

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Comments

8 Responses to “Jesus Knew Fear?”

  1. Bob Belvedere
    April 4th, 2012 @ 5:22 pm

    Thanks, Smitty.

  2. The President Presumes Too Much « Obi's Sister
    April 4th, 2012 @ 5:43 pm

    […] Smitty: …what strikes the serious reader of the Gospels is that, given a spectrum with Jesus on one end and Pontius Pilate on the other, you, Mr. President, resemble the latter far more than the former. […]

  3. Adobe_Walls
    April 4th, 2012 @ 7:44 pm

    He’s got nowhere near as much integrity as Pontius Pilate

  4. richard mcenroe
    April 4th, 2012 @ 8:01 pm

    YOU let him repent. I’m getting a bid from Halliburton to dig a tenth circle in hell.

  5. Adjoran
    April 4th, 2012 @ 8:01 pm

    Comrade Barry thinks he’s paying Jesus a compliment by the comparison.

  6. Dandapani
    April 4th, 2012 @ 9:05 pm

    Jesus knew fear?  I’m no Christian, but that is not how I understood that.  He was not afraid, but rather in anguish.  

    an·guish?1. excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain: the anguish of grief.verb (used with object)2. to inflict with distress, suffering, or pain.

  7. TxBrand
    April 5th, 2012 @ 9:18 am

    You might even wonder if he has the knowledge of a MUSTARD SEED ………

  8. Quartermaster
    April 7th, 2012 @ 11:17 pm

    Doubt? Not Christ. Dread? Absolutely! Being God he knew what he was facing, knew he had to do it, but dreading what he was going to have to suffer. I am certain he dreaded the Father turning away from him as the sins of the world were laid on him.  The cry “…why have you forsaken me” was evidence of the situation he knew he was facing, had to go through, but truly hated to face.

    There was no doubt he was going to do it, and finish the job. And he did. And, He is risen! He is risen, indeed!