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04-29-2010, 09:28 PM
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Did Jesus laugh?
When He was on earth, did Jesus laugh? Throw His head back and really laugh? Did He smile a lot, or was He serious most if not all of the time? When the little children came to him, did He laugh with them? Did He share their giggles and accept their dandelion bouquets? Do you think He ever danced in the rain or enjoyed the wildness of the wind? Or was He serious and solemn as He's so often seen in paintings? Intense, with a piercing gaze?
Did He laugh?
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04-29-2010, 09:45 PM
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Re: Did Jesus laugh?
I think so.
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04-29-2010, 09:57 PM
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Re: Did Jesus laugh?
Oh I absolutely believe Jesus laughed and had good times with those he loved. 
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04-29-2010, 10:01 PM
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Re: Did Jesus laugh?
No. He was grave and sober. He didn't have a beard either.
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04-29-2010, 10:10 PM
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Re: Did Jesus laugh?
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Originally Posted by pelathais
No. He was grave and sober. He didn't have a beard either.
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I think He's probably laughing right now, Pel. 
It's just that so often we see Jesus as sober, intense, and sorrowful. There's a verse that says He wept. But I think He laughed, and laughed heartily and often, too.
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04-29-2010, 10:16 PM
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Re: Did Jesus laugh?
I like to think He and the guys He hung around with laughed and and kidded and joked around with one another, and also that children liked Him because He was not a sour puss.
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04-29-2010, 10:22 PM
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Re: Did Jesus laugh?
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Originally Posted by Sam
I like to think He and the guys He hung around with laughed and and kidded and joked around with one another, and also that children liked Him because He was not a sour puss.
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You can't be "scary" and get the kids to like you.
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04-30-2010, 03:40 AM
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Re: Did Jesus laugh?
He was annointed with the oil of gladness.
[9] Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Heb. 1:9
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04-30-2010, 04:07 AM
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Re: Did Jesus laugh?
I'd like to believe He laughed.... but, there is no evidence that He did so (except to say, as someone pointed out, He was "annointed with the oil of gladness"). The fact is, the Bible doesn't say. It does tell us that He slept, He became hungry and thirsty, He wept. He was subject to human emotion (because He was, in fact, human). But there just isn't any biblical evidence that He laughed. He was, as Jeremiah wrote, "a man of sorrows".
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04-30-2010, 08:25 AM
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Re: Did Jesus laugh?
We were made in the image of God, and we laugh, smile, feel joy, and have a sense of humor. I see no reason to believe that Jesus didn't, also.
As someone mentioned, I can't imagine children flocking around him if he wasn't a happy person.
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