If Jesus really was God, what should he have said while he was here on Earth?
For the past 2,000 years, Christianity has been plagued by problems that Jesus would
have known about, if he was all-knowing, omniscient God.
These include plagues, persecutions of Christians by other Christians, holy wars, crusades,
the Dark Ages, Bad kings and corrupt church leaders, slavery, witch hunts, persecutions
of Jews, embarrassing scientific errors, and even today, Christianity is split into thousands
of different denominations.
It was Jesus himself who, according to the Bible, said that you will know them by their
fruits.
And Christianity has borne a lot of very bad fruit.
It fails Jesus' own "fruits test".
In the Bible, Jesus appears to have no idea about the catastrophic future failures of
future Christianity, nor did he ever give a single hint of commands that would have
avoided these failures.
Certainly Jesus did say some things that we would expect him to say if he really was God.
For example, he did say that he was God, and that he would rise from the dead and return
in glory.
But anyone could have made those claims.
If Jesus was really all-knowing, omniscient God, he would have known about those future
failures of Christianity and said things to prevent them.
Instead, Jesus felt that it was important to tell his future followers to cut off parts
of their bodies, that demons caused epilepsy and mental illness, that women were adulterers
if they divorced abusive husbands, and he even suggested that people walk on poisonous
snakes!
There are many simple things that Jesus could have said that would have discouraged his
future followers from doing such terrible things.
Here are a few suggestions.
Let's start with persecution.
Ever since Constantine, 1700 years ago, Christians have committed enormous atrocities in the
name of Christ.
Millions of innocent people have been murdered, tortured, forced out of their homes and impoverished
because they sincerely disagreed with the Christian beliefs of their Christian persecutors,
or just because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Why didn't Jesus say, You shall not persecute anyone because of what they believe about
me, no matter how much you disagree with their beliefs.
Jesus is omnipotent, so if he wanted someone tortured on the rack, burned at the stake,
drowned, defeated in a holy war, or hung by their neck until their neck breaks or they
suffocate, could have said that he was perfectly capable of doing all of that without his followers
help.
but he never did.
Slavery is one of the cruelest forms of oppression and exploitation, and it remained common in
Christian nations even in modern times.
But Jesus never said, Do NOT enslave anyone.
EVER.
Jesus never said that.
Next, if he was a loving God, Jesus would have surely known that Christians would suffer
for most of the next 2,000 years under bad kings and corrupt church leadership.
Today, we know that a fundamental right is to elect our own leaders, in government and
in church, although the largest church denominations, such as Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, still
deny their followers the right to elect their church leaders.
The very idea of a democracy, a republic, or any form of elected government is completely
missing from the Bible.
The Bible had many opportunities for God to tell his followers to elect their leaders,
but he never did.
Kings and priests were chosen by God, then all of that power and wealth went to their
descendants.
The church, as well as governments of Christian nations, followed this example.
Jesus supported this corrupt system.
He even praised a widow who gave everything she had to corrupt, un-elected, hereditary
temple priests.
Jesus could have easily said, "You have the right to democracy in church and civil
government".
But he did not.
If Jesus was God, he would also have known that many millions of Christian spouses and
children would suffer physical and sexual abuse from their spouses or parents, and that
divorce was often the only way to stop this abuse.
But what did he say?
"everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit
adultery", "What God has joined together, let no man separate" no matter how violent
or dangerous the abuse becomes.
Jesus could have said that, if someone abuses their spouse or children, the non-abusing
spouse has the right to divorce them and get custody of their children and it is NOT a
sin.
But Jesus did not say that.
Christianity is split into literally thousands of denominations, each one claiming that they
are right and every other Christian denomination is wrong.
Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit would teach his followers, which means that they
should all agree, but they still disagree with each other.
One huge part of this problem is that all of the ancient Bible manuscripts disagree
with each other, and the vast majority of them are from over a thousand years after
Christ is believed to have lived.
Another part of this problem is that different translators cannot agree on how to translate
the Bible.
There is, of course, a very easy way for all-powerful God to fix this.
Christians believe that Jesus inspired a perfect Bible.
He could also have promised to inspire perfect copies and perfect translations.
But he did not.
Now, let's move on to the embarrassing and humbling fact that the Earth is not the center
of the universe.
Although It's true that modern Christians do not believe that the Bible says that the
Earth is the center of the universe.
ancient, medieval and Renaissance Christians certainly did.
This includes the Catholic church, who almost killed Galileo because of it, it also includes
widely respected Protestant theologians like John Calvin and Martin Luther.
It would have saved his greatest theologians a lot of embarrassment if Jesus had just told
us that the Earth orbits the sun, but he didn't.
Now, Let's talk about some more science, much closer to home.
Until the development of modern medicine, plagues often swept through cities and entire
nations, killing millions of people.
Let's take just one example, smallpox.
Smallpox has been killing people for at least 3,000 years.
It killed 20% - 60% of everyone it infected, and killed 80% of the children that it infected.
It killed 40 million Europeans in the 18th century alone, and in the twentieth century,
it killed between 300 million and 500 million people.
The church's response was to dedicate a saint, Saint Nicasius, to smallpox victims
and build a cathedral named after him.
There are actually two different ways to prevent smallpox, which could have been done with
ancient technology, if they had only known about them.
These are variolation and vaccination.
But Jesus did not say anything about them, even though this knowledge would have prevented
literally hundreds of millions, probably billions of unnecessary, horribly painful, deaths.
Let's move on to the belief that demons cause epilepsy and mental illness.
This is a very common theme in the Gospels, which claim 23 times that Jesus and his disciples
cast demons out of people.
This led to almost 1,700 years of incorrect diagnosis and mistreatment of people who were
physically or mentally ill.
But Jesus never said that seizures and mental illnesses were NOT caused by demons.
Nor did he ever tell us not to mistreat people who had these illnesses.
If Jesus really was all-knowing, loving, omniscient God, why did he not say a single one of these
common sense things that would have made enormous improvements in the lives of billions of people,
and prevented his church from making enormous, very embarrassing and destructive mistakes,
and prevented horrible human suffering?
A better question might be, since Jesus gave no hint that he knew about all of these problems
that future Christians would face, was Jesus really God?
What else do you think Jesus should have said?
I've provided eight things.
I'm sure you can think of some more.
I look forward to reading your answers in the YouTube comments section.
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