The Mysterious Life of Jesus

By all religious standards Jesus was a failure, a debacle, an overrated healer/prophet who lacked the diligence to be who we understood the messiah to be.

Looking at the life of Jesus we can assert he was a social radical.  He was the mainframe for modern spiritually free peoples. He without doubt understood the rebellion of the 1960's hippie movement. He hated racism and was the largest racial activist of the 20th century.  He was in opposition to the religious justification of slavery.  He was the face that outlawed child labor.

He will never understand our gender, racial, or economic caste structures.

He hates the glass ceiling(the business model for discriminating against women), and the notion that only men can pastor or lead a nation(Any questions? Take a look at the life of Debra, then lets talk...)

In ever way, Jesus was Jesus and had no apologies for being who he was.

So what do we make of the life of Jesus? In all respect, Jesus was a mysterious man--both wise from a religious standpoint(the term referred to him often is "rabbi" which simply means ' a great thinker of the Torah'), and unwise from a socially "moral" standpoint(the "Water to Wine" incident in which he became a master vintner creating what was described as the "best wine"in order for the party to continue, or when he illegally healed on the sabbath, and responded to the religious right by calling them a "brood of vipers!")  Jesus was in and of himself a 'politik'.  He not once subjugated himself to the Jewish predicament of desiring a king like messiah who'd raise their nation back to a place of divine prominence.  In fact he utterly opposed their theories of who God's great leader would be by healing freely on the sabbath, reclining lazily with friends(the story of "Mary and Martha"), glorifying the poor before the wealthy(when he made known the "Widows Mite"), breaking Jewish law by saving the prostitute("those who have not sin may cast the first stone"), and being closest to the ungoldy: Peter(a man lacking in good judgment, over zealous, and a crude fisherman), Matthew( a tax collector, cheater of the innocent, arrogant and egotistical), Judas(a man who hung himself in sadness), His mother Mary(who by cultural belief was a loose and sexually promiscuous woman), and Mary Magdalen( prostitute for most her adult life).  He later would befriend a man by the name of Saul(later to be turned to Paul) who formulated a microcosmic insurrection against a people group(Christians) much like the 'Hitlerites' genocide of the Jews.  We also can take from Jesus life that he was highly emotional.  It is told that "Jesus wept" when calling his friend Lazarus out of the tomb. He also fed the hungry without justification or reason when he fed the five thousand.  And Jesus healed without discrimination.  During the life of Jesus he indiscriminately healed a rich rulers  child, and on multiple accounts healed the poor: blind beggars, those with blood disease, leper, etc.

It seems fairest to call Jesus an equalizer.  He was someone who believed all humanity should receive from him equally.  In fact, he turned thinking around when he wisely proposed "the least of you shall be first, and the fist shall be last".  This created an infrastructure far different than American Capitalism. Much like a Ying and Yang--an idea that all things will be handled at a fair medium, both the positive(rich) and the negative(poor) would be weighed out opposite by Heaven's politico in order to love all man equally.  He did not by any account align himself with conservative doctrine and political idealism.  He had no outline for when he healed, whom he fed, or who he loved.  That is just the point, Jesus loved everyone.  Those he stood in opposition against were without doubt the religious right who aimed at controlling and manipulating the population; Some of their means are similar to Communism, Fascism, or Republicanism(should not be mistaken with being Republican, Republicanism is the ideology for a Republic, a more controlled Democracy). 

I leave you with one filter when reading, studying, and experiencing the life of Jesus.  Do it like Jesus, without discretion, without fear, without traditional mindsets that blind our senses to the freedom of his love. Experiment with Jesus, and in the end ask the question............who is Jesus to me.......?

Is not that the greatest mystery?