%% Revelation will never be as easy to understand as Proverbs, written by King Davids son, Solomon. Rev 6:6 says.....''a measure if wheat for a penny'' KVJ Good downtrend ?? NO; New International Version says two pounds of wheat for a day wages.[NIV] Its a future famine; wheat sold by the pound .I would not learn much from only one page of ET also; as a general rule Thanks OT.
Nevertheless you've got to admit two of the characters in human history afflicted with extreme narcissism are The Biblical Jesus and Donald Trump. We have experienced first hand Trump's continuous pathological lying, his constant reminders of how wonderful he is, his insatiable need for admiration and his characterizing those who question his sanity or judgement, or otherwise criticize him, as very bad persons, showboaters, losers, etc. Does the extremely narcissistic, Biblical Jesus, exhibit these same traits? Read your Bible and let us know. I just can't wait for you to get back to us on this topic!
The topic can be very complicate, because we need to compare 3x Trump against 2x Jesus (the historical and the canonised). "Trevor Noah Takes On Trump's Multiple Personalities" http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trevor-noah-trump-multiple-personalities-acting-1032569
enjoy your bigotry. The bigotry part does not bother me... I expect it from you. You may be lucky to find man's justice and God's justice are not the same. You should probably hope they are not similar at all. If your thoughts about Jesus force you to turn him into a narcissist... its you not me on this subject who needs to go back and read the bible to find a narcissist. (perhaps using a mirror while reading will help you.)
Tee hee, we could write a book of a thousand pages demonstrating Jesus' Narcissism. so I won't belabor this. I'll just mention a couple Trump like tidbits. According to the word of God, which you've got to agree with, Jesus and God are the same. Admittedly this is tricky to pull off, but hey its God! At one point Satan tells Jesus to Jump off the pinnacle of a Temple and let his angels save him. Now Jesus, knowing Satan has backed him into a corner and he is supposed to put up or shut up, has no desire to dash his brains on the Earth below, so he Tells Satan "Do not tempt the Lord your God." ( i.e., himself.) Then Jesus gets very ballsy, and this is extremely Trump like, he tells Satan**, "Begone, (i.e., your fired) for it is written You shall worship the Lord your God, and him (meaning himself) only shall you serve!!!" Talk about blatant Narcissism! Yikes. And speaking of "Fake News", Jesus went around telling a continuous lie, "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." And of course it was nowhere near at hand. He made the whole thing up. (Very Trump like! , evidencing both insanity and a brutal imagination.) And there is hardly anything more narcissistic than this little tidbit: "So everyone who acknowledges me before men I will also acknowledge before my father who is in heaven." (wrong! and another lie) "But whoever denies me, I will also deny before my Father ... (So Jesus is throwing in a threat; again very Trump like.) And then Mr. Jesus the Narcissist goes on: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on Earth . I haven't! I've come to bring a sword" (very Trump like!) "I've come to set man against his father; daughter against her mother; daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's foes will be those of his own household. (After this Trump-like tantrum, Jesus sneaks in a way to avoid all the chaos, which is just to admire and praise him and basically give him whatever he wants. Then, and only then, are you gonna be just fine.) And Jesus continues with this narcissistic diatribe. "He who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, blah blah blah, and he who refuses to don a Make America Great Hat (or take up his cross and follow me, as the case may be) is not worthy of me. He who loses his life for my sake will find it." (Yah right!) Talk about Narcissism! Yikes! And the entire New Testament, almost, is filled page after page with this Trump like tripe. ____________________ ** Who turned out to be a very bad person, a showboater and a real loser. He is actually "Little Satan" with a dick the size of a kumquat".
If everyone on ET basically is allowed to have her/his own opinion, here is mine. According to some free thinking scholars, there would be only small percentage of Jesus' words in the NT were actually spoken by the historical Jesus. (Already mentioned/cited before by ETers for a few times.) Who even humbly said, having no proper place for sleeping. Likely most of the illogical and unreasonable contents about Jesus words and (superstitious) events stated in the NT were produced by religious leaders such as St Paul. The same pattern appeared in many other cultures and religions. Perhaps in order to attract more followers/believers, making use of many unexplained phenomenons and mysteries of the Universe/Nature. That I believe would be the same/similar strategy/principle sometimes used by some naughty politicians who usually merely want to gain the highest power for self-interest purpose, rather than for the goodness of the people/nation. Sad, Bigly! LOL
actually I agree with you, but please don't tell jem. It is amazing however how narcissistic is the character of Jesus created by whoever wrote the New Testament. And from what we know about Paul he may himself had narcissistic tendencies. He was quite the promoter. But I think their are no direct references to Jesus or Christ in Paul's writing which makes the origins of what we know as the Christian religion all the more of a mystery. I think, though I don't know if I could back it up, of Paul as the real founder of the Christian Church, despite his not mentioning Jesus Christ directly. Isn't it claimed that in the early days, while Paul was trying to build a following and promoting his "church", that there is a connection between James, reputed to be the brother of Jesus, and Paul?