Just Trying to Be a Good Father

Originally Posted by Chan

Was he? We don't know one way or the other.

I suppose that, like the Bible says, He was without sin.

It means what the Bible says: "In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. 8Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 9And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him."

It means what it says: "And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man."

I believe it is wrong to suggest that Jesus was a mischevious boy like so many boys today. I believe it's wrong to suggest that mischief is somehow appropriate.

Well, Chan...

All I can say is, your concept of Jesus is totally unlike mine.

Of course he never sinned. Neither did Coon or his boys or any other boy that flew a paper hornet.

But, the Jesus I know, was in all things nothing unlike his bretheren in the flesh according to Heb. 1. He had every tendency of a normal, natural, boy with every propensity inherent in young boys. I suspect that Jesus probably threw a haymaker or two on another boy that picked on him. Yet, in throwing his haymaker on the end of another boys nose, he never sinned. Neither did he sin if an arm or finger was broken when he overturned the tables in the temple.

Jesus was not a pervert nor was he some freaky humanoid. He was just like the two boys of Coonskinners, growing in wisdom, learning obedience, suffering the consequences of bad judgment. In ALL THINGS....yes, ALL THINGS, he was made like unto his bretheren. As a baby he nursed on a teenagers breast, had to have his diapers changed. As a young boy he behaved like one. As a man he cut a few stink bombs too. Get out of the notion that Jesus was some kind of a freak.

Since he grew up in Nazareth, it would account for the reason that in his own home, he was not received too well. He was too much like all the rest of his friends, neighbors and few enemies for him to be taken real seriously by them that knew him from his earliest childhood.

The Jesus that I know was just like me, yet without sin. He suffered every temptation that I've suffered yet he tells me TO BE ANGRY but don't sin in my anger.... It is an ideal to grow into. Jesus gave us the highwater mark to attain unto, falling short of it is NOT SIN, it is growth.