I Think Differently

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 I see in black and white.  I interpret the words of Jesus in black and white not giving much thought to the rest of Bible apart from the Gospels.  I give most of my attention to the Jesus of the Gospels.  This makes me different from many Christians.  Jesus often gets ignored because many Christians don’t understand Him.  Many Christians today understand Judaism better than they understand Jesus.  

Jesus is not all that complicated with His message of love and Peace.  Forgiveness matters to Jesus.  Too many get hung up on an eye for an eye.  But the parables are about those who follow the path of the Pharisees.  I won’t get into all that in today’s post.  Just that Jesus is about love and Peace and the Pharisees were about the law.  

Jesus knew for whom He was to give His life.  He was to die for the Peacemakers and the Judgment was for those who were obedient to the law.  The law demanded life for certain sins.  Jesus did all He could do to prevent the Pharisees from carrying out death sentences against those who broke the law.  When asked how many times we are to forgive, Jesus simply said it was the same as always.  

This is my thinking about Jesus.  Only God can sentence a person to death.  But the Pharisees believed they carried out God’s judgment for God.  No one can.  This is why I say we live and let live.  But not everyone believes in God as Jesus does or as I do.  I just say it to my little corner of the world and move on.  Not many will believe as I do or as I say Jesus taught.  But I do what I do and just move on.  

Forgiveness—not judgment is key.  But I am just one person without any special powers.  I just have a message.  Nothing else.  The message I have isn’t even popular.  But instead of worrying about it, I smoke my pipe and wait for the Messiah to back up my words for me.  Until then, today is Tuesday, which is the day I smoke my Dunhill pipe.  I’ll relax with some Black and Gold Maple with a cup of coffee from Guatemala.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Papa Chasteen

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