aND nOW A mUSING aBOUT bEN sHAPIRO

 aND NOW i HAVE A COMPLAINT TO MAKE ABOUT bEN sHAPIRO.  aLL THESE PEOPLE i'M WRITING ABOUT RECENTLY ARE PEOPLE i LIKE, THAT i AGREE WITH ON MANY THINGS AND LIKE TO LISTEN TO, AND THAT INCLUDES bEN cHAPRIRO.  bUT HE REALLY PUSHED MY BUTTONS WITH SOMETHING HE SAID ABOUT cHRISTIANITY.

hE'S HAD A COUPLE OF INTERVIEWS WITH jOHN mACaRTHUR AND IF HE COULDN'T PERSUADE HIM TO cHRIST i CERTAIN LY DON'T EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT, BUT HE ISN'T JUST A NONBELIEVER IN cHRIST HE'S GOT A PRETTY OFFENSIVE IDEA ABOUT hIMJ THAT i DIDN'T KNOW HE HAD.  hE MENTIONS FROM TIME TO TIME THAT HE'S READ THE nEW tESTAMETN SO HE KNOWS THE GOSPELS AND THE BASICS OF cHRISTIANITY, AND IT WOULDN'T BE HARD TO UNDERSTAND IF HE NEVERTHELESS DOESN'T BELIEVE IT ALL BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY PEOP[LE WHO KNOW OF IT AND DON'T BELIEVE IT.  bUT WHEN ASKED WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT IT HE SAID HE BELIEVES WHAT MANY jEWS BELIEVE, WHICH IS THAT jESUS WAS A jEW WHO LED A REVOLT AGAINST THE rOMAN EMPIRE AND GOT CRUCIFIED FOR hIS TROUBLE.  

nOW that IS OFFENSIVE.  fIRST BECAUSE IT IS THE COMPLETE CONTRADICTION OF THWHAT THE nEW TESTAMENT ACTUALLY PRESENTS ABOUT cHRIST, IT TURNS IT ALL UPSIDE DOWN AND BACKWARDS.  jESUS SAID hIS KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD AND hE WAS ALWAYS DEFLECTING THE DISCIPLE'S EXPECTATIONS OF hIS BEING THE mESSIAH THEY EXPECTED TO RESTORE iSRAEL OUT FROM UNDER THE DOMINATION OF rOME.  yOU HAVE TO DENY EVERYTHING YOU KNOW cHRISTIANS BELIEVE TO HAVE SUCH AN IDEA ABOUT JESUS AS sHAPIRO HAS.  i DON'T KNOW HOW HE ALLOWS HIMSELF TO THINK SUCH A THING.  hOW COULD HE MAKE SENSE OF WHAT THE nEW TESTAMENT ACTUALLY SAYS.  dOES HE THINK A FEW FISHERMEN AND AN EXpHARISEE COULD HAVE MADE IT ALL UP?  REALLY?  really?

hE SAYS THE jESWS WERE EXPECTING A DIFFERENT mESSIAH THAN THE ONE jESUS PRESENT HIMSEDLF TO BE, AND THAT'S CERTAINLY TRUE.  tHE DISCIPLES OF cHRIST THEMSELVE ES HAS D A DIFFERENT mESSIAH IN MIND.   THOUGH IT'S NOT REALLY CLEAR WHY SINCE THE oLD tESTAMENT IS PRETTY CLEAR THAT THE mESSIAH WAS TO BE gOD hiMSELF, "gOD WITH US" gOD TABERNACLING AMONG US.  hE WAS TO BE CALLED "wONDERFUL, cOUNCILLOR, aLMOIGHTY gOD, eVERLASTING fATHER, pRINCE OF pEOACE.    HAT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE oLD tESTEMTNA.  sOMETHER IN iSAIAH i THINK.  naND WHEN i SAY IT i HEAR IT SUNG TO THE MUSIC hANDEL WROTE FOR IT.  "sAY UNTO THE CITIES OF jUDA bEHOLD YOUR gOD"    hE CLAIMED TO BE goD.  THAT'S WHAT THE mESSIAH WAS SUPPOSED TO DO.  HE WAS TO BE gOD.  wHY DIDN'T THEY KNOW THAT?  wHY DOESN'T sHAPIRO KNOW THAT?

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