Jesus Was a Left-Wing, Totalitarian Fruitcake!
No, not really, but I bet the title caught your attention, haha. Read on...
So, you don’t believe me, huh. Jesus would have made a great Lefty. Just read what He said:
1. “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Matt. 28:18). Isn’t that exactly what Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other left-wing dictators claimed (or wanted)? Perfect Leftist dogma from Jesus.
2. “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me” (Matt. 10:37). He demands that we have no higher allegiance than to Himself. Isn’t this is exactly what Xi Jinping and the CCP demands? What Hitler and the Nazis insisted upon? Pure Leftist ideology.
3. “The word that I have spoken will judge [you] in the last day” (John 12:48). If you don’t believe the Leftist dictator’s words, you will certainly be judged by them in your “last day” before you stand before the firing squad. Stalin must have loved this one from Jesus.
4. “Sell whatever you have and give to the poor” (Mark 10:21). Yes! Equity! Equality of outcomes! Exactly what the Left wants. Hate the rich (except those who give to your campaign) and exalt the poor.
5. In line with number 4, “Blessed are you poor...woe to you who are rich,” (Luke 6:20, 24). You greedy capitalist pigs are robbing from the poor. Only the poor have virtue. Jesus said so.
So, Jesus was a Lefty, totalitarian fruitcake who wanted all power!
You get the idea. I kinda, maybe twisted the meaning of a few of those verses above a little, but Jesus did say them. Of course, the difference between Jesus and Stalin, et al, is that Jesus is God and He has every right, by virtue of being Him through whom the worlds were created (Hebrews 1:2) to demand our total submission. He doesn’t make the claims or demands above because He was a Leftist, totalitarian, power-lusting thug. He made the claims and demands above because He is God (John 1:1).
Now, one more thing: if Jesus was/is NOT God, then He was nothing but a now-deceased mortal human being, just like you, me, Hitler, Stalin, etc. He would have no more claim to our allegiance than any other mortal human being. If Jesus was NOT God, then He wasn’t a good man, either. It’s often said, “Well, I believe Jesus was a good, moral teacher, but I don’t believe He was God.” No, He was NOT a “good, moral teacher” if He were only a man. He was a liar, a fraud, a deceiver, and those kinds of people, regardless of anything else they say, are NOT “good, moral teachers.” He claimed to be God along with all the other things I mentioned above. If He wasn’t/isn’t God, He either lied, or...
He was a Left-wing, totalitarian fruitcake, with emphasis on the last word. But then, all Left-wing totalitarians are fruitcakes.
Jesus was either the Lord, a liar, or a lunatic. And no lunatic ever spoke like He spoke.
And, if He was only a liar, He was one of the most horrible people who ever lived.
The third option—He is Lord and God—is the correct one, and proven by “many infallible proofs” (Acts 1:3).
Jesus is Lord. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Biden wanted (want) to be. But they aren’t God. They have no claim on our allegiance beyond the threat of the firing squad or gulag.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). Lord, liar, or nuts. What does the evidence say?