What the God

Written by Jesse Medina

Check out this video of a couple of guys who claim to be "drunk" with God's glory. We thought this would be a fitting post considering our recent article titled, "Can You Get Drunk/High Off Jesus?"

What do you think? Is it real? Is this Biblical? Were the apostles in the early church stumbling around in a Spirit-drunken stupor? What would be the value of such a thing?

Written by Jesse Medina

We Christians are unique people. We have our language, our own clothing, our own books, our own rituals, and even our own celebrities. We’re quirky. Some might say a little weird. But within our ranks, there is one group that comes across to me as even more quirky than the rest: former drug user/alcoholic Christians.

You know who I’m talking about. These are the folks who lived life in the fast lane for a part of their lives. They experienced all the thrills of snorting that line or drinking their body weight in liquor…every night…they know how to have a good time. But, somewhere along the way, they happened to stumble drunk into a church one Wednesday evening during prayer meeting and found the Lord. (In high school, a drunken lady actually came to the church on a Sunday evening and kept blurting stuff out during the pastor’s sermon. Complete awkwardness…especially when he scolded her from the pulpit)

I’ve known a few of these people and had the opportunity to hear how they try to evangelize their old friends.

“Don’t get high/drunk off that stuff, brother, come with me to church and get high/drunk off Jesus. You’ll never be higher/drunker.”

This make sense. Call it speaking their language. Meeting them where they are at. Becoming all things to all men. Want high/drunk people to get saved? Appeal to those desires…and tell them about Jesus’ intoxicating powers. Share with them that story of when he turned hundreds of gallons of water into wine. Talk about his ascension.

That’ll get ‘em.

I’ve always imagined those situations looking a little different:

“Don’t get high/drunk off that stuff, brother, come with me to church and get high/drunk off Jesus. Actually, I’ve got some Jesus right here in my pocket. Let’s go out back and smoke him.”

Getting high off Jesus would be a lot easier if you could bring him to the party, whip him out half-way in, and light him up in the basement.

But there is a danger to this whole notion of getting high/drunk off God. To demonstrate why I feel it is dangerous, I present to you how ridiculous it would sound to use the same method of evangelism for other sinning types:

• For pornstars: Come to church and have Jesus orgasms!
• For strippers: Come to church and get naked before God!
• For prostitutes: Come to church and let Jesus pay the price for you!
• For murderers: Come to church and kill the Lord!
• For greedy people: Come to church and let God bless you with stuff!
• For thieves: Come to church and steal some Jesus!
• For bestiality: Come to church and meet the Lamb of God!
• For cannibals: Come to church and eat Jesus’ body!
• For lusters: Come to church and gaze upon the Lord!

What do you think? Have you ever been high/drunk on God? Can you think of other examples of bad evangelism?

Written by Jesse Medina

They say that Jesus was fully God and fully man…like some sort of superhero or something. And its not that he switched modes or anything like Bruce Wayne/Batman. It is not even that he was half God and half man like a spiritual Tumnus (but with a cooler beard). Nope, he was fully God and fully man.

They also say that God can’t sin. I like to picture it like Jim Carrey’s Liar, Liar – you know, where if God tried to sin his face would get all crazy and he’d beat the crap out of himself in heaven’s bathroom. It makes sense, I guess…if God could sin, he probably wouldn’t be God-like. He’d just be some dude who can get away with whatever he wanted. Kind of like Tiger Woods except less black and he wouldn’t get caught.

So it begs the question…could Jesus have sinned? I mean, aside from the fact that it would change some things for the crucifixion with him not being spotless anymore, if he had wanted to, could he have sinned? Or would he turn into a bearded Jim Carrey in a tunic and say things like,

“No, Peter, I do not think your butt looks good in that robe.”

“I know you want to believe he is in heaven, but he’s actually burning up right now in hell.”

“Eh…I’ve had better…wine.”

There are some who think that because Jesus was 100% God he couldn’t have sinned. After all, God can’t sin. Sin is disobeying God and he can’t disobey himself, right? Plus, if we believe that God is actually good, we have to believe that he couldn’t do any bad, under any circumstances.

Then again, if he couldn’t have sinned, how could he be tempted? If he couldn’t have sinned, couldn’t he just say to Satan when he was tempting Jesus in the desert, “Dude, it doesn’t even matter, I couldn’t turn that rock into bread even if I wanted!”

But if he could…does that make him not 100% God anymore? Or would that have nullified the point of the cross?

I propose that Jesus had to have been able to sin for three reasons:

1. He thought he could. That’s why he was tempted. I mean, you cannot be tempted by something you know you couldn’t have even if you wanted.
2. He wouldn’t be fully man – by that I don’t mean he’d be like Clay Aiken. As men, we sin – or at least we have the ability to. The ladies are probably very surprised by that revelation, but its true. Without the ability to sin (i.e. free will), he would have ceased to be human.
3. It would be cheating. Like unlimited lives in video games or a deck of cards up his sleeve. You can’t convince everyone that you’re a man only to pull one over on them by really not being very man-like at all. Nobody likes a cheater.

What do you think…could Jesus have sinned if he wanted to?

Written by AJ Teaters

We all have a picture of Jesus in our heads. I like to picture my Jesus (insert funny metaphor here):

• as a mischievous badger.
• as a figure skater. He wears like a white outfit, and He does interpretive ice dances of my life's journey.
• as a dirty old bum, and I was about to sock him in the face because, well he's a dirty old bum, but then I thought, there's something special about him...
• in a tuxedo T-Shirt because it says I want to be formal, but I'm here to party.
• like with giant eagles wings, and singin' lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd with like an angel band and I'm in the front row and I'm hammered drunk!

Maybe you prefer the “baby Jesus” to the “full-grown Jesus” sitting in his golden fleece diapers, lyin' there in His ghost manger, just lookin' at His Baby Einstein developmental videos, learnin' 'bout shapes and colors.

I like to picture my Jesus as a superhero, but the question that broods (it's a good comic book term) in my mind is, “which?”

Superman


I wanted to start with the obvious first. Why not make Jesus my own personal Superman? First because it would be too easy. Superman is the perfect superhero; he is honest, compassionate, patriotic, and pretty much all powerful. What can't Superman do? It would be so simple to make Jesus synonymous with Superman but I like to try and back my analogies and metaphors with some sort of Biblical backing or fact. The problem as I see it is that even though Jesus was honest, compassionate and all powerful... Jesus can't fly, He doesn't have heat vision, or super strength, but most importantly I know for a fact that Jesus ain't no alien that came to our planet because His was about to blow up. There is just not enough Biblical backing for me to make this correlation with any kind of reliability or validity.

The Incredible Hulk

At least there is some Biblical reference to Jesus getting so angry that He is ruled by His emotion more than His brain. Matthew 21:12-13, Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. "It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be called a house of prayer,'but you are making it a 'den of robbers.' I really wish Matthew would have added, "and you don't want to see me when I'm angry," Mark would've. But I digress, Doves! Jesus totally kicked the asses of guys selling doves, that just goes to show you how angry He was. It's not like the people in the temple were selling child pornography or cocain, they were selling doves. I like this Jesus, it makes me feel better about myself knowing that Jesus lost his temper at least once. But I still have a problem with the fact that it wasn't a constant occurrence throughout His ministry, but I guess if Jesus turned into a horrible monster every time He got frustrated He probably wouldn't have gotten many followers.

Mystique or Jedi

The reason that I chose two different “superheros” is two fold: 1) I have a hard time picturing my Jesus as a sexy blue, gun toting, leather clad, red haired vixen. 2) Mystique is a villain and that's just hard for me to have Jesus be. What is my reasoning for comparing these two “superheroes” and how do they fit into being anything like Jesus? The reason behind this is because of Jesus' ability to shield Himself from the masses. Luke 24: 15-16 as they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him. Who else besides the aforementioned sexy blue, gun toting, leather clad, red haired vixen (let's add one more adjective about her) shape shifter could have disguised themselves well enough for even their closest colleagues from recognizing them? Far be it from me to put Jesus in a box but a sexy blue, gun toting, leather clad, red haired shape shifting vixen is tight box. Jedi on the other hand is a little bit easier for me to picture Jesus as. They uphold truth, justice and have awesome mind powers! I can totally see Jesus walking to Emmaus and happening by these two disciples talking about... Jesus of Nazareth... blah blah... Crucifixion... blah blah... Messiah... blah blah... *tear* *sniffle*... boo hoo... Jesus thinks, “I can't let them know who I am... Quick, Jedi mind trick time!”

Man 1: Who did you say you were?

Jesus: (waving hand slowly) I'm not the man you are looking for.

Man 1: This isn't the man we're looking for.

Jesus: I don't know what you are discussing.

Man 1: He doesn't know what we're discussing.

Jesus: OK, stop

Man 1: We need to stop.

Nightcrawler

The next superhero that popped (no pun intended, who am I kidding they're always intended) into my head was Nightcrawler. He didn't only pop into my head because he is like the best X-Men character ever but because of the verse that was mentioned in the previous passage. Luke 24 (specifically 31) “Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.” If you can honestly tell me the first thing that popped into your head WASN'T Nightcrawler, let me know and I'll send you a cookie!

Wolverine

All I have to say is POWER TO HEAL!

Batman

Nothing says savior of all mankind quite like Vigilante Bad Ass! This is my pick overall. The comparisons are nothing but (pun intended) uncanny. The biggest parallel is that Jesus was fully human but also fully God (super-human), and Batman or Bruce Wayne isn't really a superhero, he is more of a super-human. Batman isn't a mutant, he isn't an alien, nothing radioactive bit him or blew up next to him to make him the way he is, it is totally Batman's choice to be the superhero that he is. Also let's not forget where both Jesus and Batman get their ability to be “super”, their Dads! Batman has an endless supply of the almighty dollar (buying himself infinite gadgets and vehicles) and Jesus has an endless supply of the Almighty Father (aiding Him in miracles of healing and conquering sin). Finally the most obvious similarity is that both were super-humans that fought against the corrupt government that was in place during their time, while constantly fighting the criminally insane (Jesus had the Pharisees while Batman had the Joker, Two-Face and Catwoman).

If you had to pick what superhero Jesus was most closely associated with, who would you pick?

Written by Jesse Medina

I've been thinking lately. I know, surprising, but it happens. Usually after eating tacos. And I've come up with a joke. Ready? Here goes:

If Jesus came around today, he would be crucified. Ba-dum-cha! Funny right?

Exclusive claims are always that way: we do not like to be told that we are wrong and when we do get told that, we react…often violently.

Jesus did that. He pissed a lot of people off. Particularly religious people. It’s not that he was trying to make people mad just for the sake of making them mad, but when the truth stands in opposition to what we’re doing, it is sort of inevitable.

But my question is: why is Jesus the only way?

It kind of seems like God is just being a bully, you know? Like he actually could have made it so that he wasn’t the only way and just chose not to, just so that he could make people angry and then send them to hell for not going through him. It’s like one big cosmic dick move.

Couldn’t God have done it differently if he had wanted to? Wouldn’t it have been awesomer (it’s a word, trust me…don’t try to look it up, it’s too awesome to be in the dictionary) if God had made the only way something cool and/or fun? Like the following options:

Partying is the Only Way

That’s a religion that would be hard to ignore. Get a good buzz going, go streaking, and eat an alarm clock and surely you will be with me throughout all eternity. Not only would pretty much everyone get in on that, it would still piss off the religious people. Two birds, one stone.

Punching Someone Out is the Only Way

If someone starts a religion wherein you get to heaven by punching someone out and that it gets better the more people you punch out, I’m in. Not only would this create for a religion where evangelism is actually fun, it would guarantee that God doesn’t end up with weak followers. Why? Because punching someone in the face for the Lord takes guts…you’re likely to get punched back and that’s a good thing – you know, edification.

Growing a Beard is the Only Way

This one would have suited Jesus well. And even though it would have excluded all but a few rather terrifying women, it still would have been a great litmus test. Some perks to this one are: manly activities in heaven (i.e. wrestling bears, drinking beer, and being lazy), low estrogen levels (and thus less drama), and steak. Plus, wussy guys don’t get in though there should probably be a free pass for Native Americans since everyone knows they’re crazy awesome even though they can’t grow a beard.

But no, God had to go and make Jesus the only way to get heaven. Why? Is it because he is just a big jerk? Maybe. Is it because Jesus had a better beard than anyone else? Probably not. But perhaps it is something different entirely.

Maybe, just maybe, Jesus is the only way not because God is trying to be a jerk, but because it is just a matter of fact. It might be helpful if we think about this in different terms since religion is so touchy. But let’s say there are a bunch of us who believe that by heading north from Colorado we will eventually get to Phoenix and Jesus comes around and says, “Um, no, the only way to get to Phoenix is to go South.” Would we still think it harsh of God to say that? Would we think he’s being a jerk for not letting us get to Phoenix by going North?

Maybe it is not God being harsh and setting most of the world up for wrath that Jesus said he is the only way. Maybe that’s just the way it is. And if that’s the case, far from God being a jerk, it is an act of extreme love and mercy.

Still, though, the punching thing should be incorporated.

What do you think? Is it cruel of God to make Jesus the only way? What other ways would have been awesomer?

Written by KC Procter

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. 

John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?" But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he consented. 

And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:13-17, English Standard Version courtesy of God and the folks at BibleGateway.com)

So WHY did Jesus get baptized?

Traditionally baptism is reserved for sinners who've made a decision to acknowledge their sin, recognize Christ as their savior and desire to make a public profession of faith. Jesus wasn't a sinner, otherwise that whole crucified on the cross debacle was a waste of time. Even John the Baptist was caught off guard and told Jesus it should be the other way around (side note: I love John's mafia-esque moniker. What would your biblical gangster name be?).

"Oh, hey Jesus. What? You want me to baptize you? Whoa, wait a second. You're the Son of God, Savior of all mankind, dying for sins, the prophesied walking-on-water Messiah, right? I should be baptized by you! Actually that'd be really nice because I've been at this all day and if I've gotta dunk one more sweaty shepherd my shoulder will cramp up."

John ended up baptizing Jesus anyway, and mulling over the historic implications of this epic event only a few scenarios come to mind:

It was a hot day

We can just picture Jesus, sitting there in the shade of a sycamore tree on a lunch break with his earthly dad, Joseph. The sun is bright in the sky, it's blistering hot and the humidity is hellish. Since Jesus didn't have a pool in the backyard (He was only a carpenter after all), and air conditioning was a long way off, what's better than to go for a dip in the Jordan river? The cool, crisp water would've been most refreshing. Sheesh, even I could go for a swim right about now.

Jesus smelled bad and didn't want to bathe Himself

Being the Son of God sent to earth to suffer and die for all mankind's iniquities has very few perks. Add to the equation that showers and the practice of bathing regularly wouldn't be implemented for at least a millennium and I bet you $100 Christ's natural fragrance was closer in the vicinity to old spices than Old Spice. Royalty typically don't dress themselves or wipe their own hindquarters let alone bathe themselves. I see Jesus' insistence on John baptizing Him as a sort of, "Alright, I'm dying on the cross for all y'alls sins so I get this one thing alright!? Go easy on the Herbal Essence."

Christ seized a river wrestling opportunity

It's an established biblical fact that JC and JtB were cousins (I'm not sure whether they were first cousins once removed or what so we'll keep it simple). No stretch of the imagination is required to assume these two horsed around and caused a ruckus as kids. Boys will be boys after all. The verses above probably omitted the part where JC came tearing across the top of the water and body slammed JtB to the riverbed.

To kickoff His earthy ministry

I think this quote from the Pope says it best: "Jesus inaugurated his public ministry by stepping into the place of sinners with their guilt on his shoulders and carrying it down into the depths of the Jordan. His baptism by John marked his acceptance of death for the sins of humankind; his coming up out of the water depicted his resurrection" (thank you, Wikipedia). Christ began his ministry with an act of humility, demonstrating his role as the bearer of our sins by identifying himself with sinners through baptism.

I can't imagine what it would've been like to be a disciple of John, to hear his message of the coming Messiah and then one scorching day by the Jordan River - BAM! - there's Jesus...

"Hey cousin, I need to be dunked by you."  

"No way JC, You should be the one dunking me."  

"No, this is the way it's gotta be."

*DUNK*  

[Dove descends]  

[Jesus Thinks] That little bird better not crap on me I just got clean  

GOD SPEAKS: "That's a my boy."

Don't know about you, but if I were standing there and God suddenly parted the heavens and spoke I'd probably have severely soiled my tunic.

Have you been baptized? Why or why not?

Written by AJ Teaters

With the recent wave of social networking sites and blogs popping up quicker than rednecks lining up for a Jeff Foxworthy comedy show, I thought it might be a good idea to think about how Jesus would perceive all this “innovation”. I think the important question to ask is WSNWJU, or What Social Network Would Jesus Use? Let’s look at the options: Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

Facebook
Status Update:
· Jesus (The Christ) of Nazareth is totally stoked that He just walked on water

Comments:
· Peter: NO WAY?! I don’t believe it!
· Mark: That’s awesome, I bet you kicked that waters ass!
· Luke: Based on your size and weight and the laws of water displacement… That’s a miracle!
· John: Ye of little faith… Come on guys, He is the Son of God!!!

Status Update:
· Jesus (The Christ) of Nazareth is feeling betrayed

Comments:
· Peter: It wasn’t me!
· Andrew: Peter, it’s NEVER you.
· James: What’s up J? You sound concerned
· John: is this called foreshadowing or prophesying?
· Philip: You guys are always jumping to conclusions; maybe He just had a bad day.
· Bartholomew: I don’t think Jesus has bad days Philip… wait… do You, Jesus?
· Thomas: I doubt someone betrayed him. I want some proof!
· Matthew: Has anyone actually talked to Him about this, or are we all just gonna post comments and hopefully hear back?
· James the Less: Is now a bad time to ask for a better/cooler nickname than “the Less”?
· Thaddaeus: Yeah James the Less it is a bad time… But I’ll indulge you anyway. How about this one, James the Douche Bag?! Jesus is trying to tell us something.
· Simon: Has anyone seen Judas lately?

So maybe these wouldn’t be the exact conversation threads that would be happening if Jesus used Facebook, but we all know that He would have joined 2 groups (Jews and Gentiles), and been a fan of only one page (Abba is my Homeboy). I can't help get this picture in my head of the apostles playing Farkle to decide between Barsabbas or Matthias.

If Jesus were alive today and using Facebook He would have between 1.5- 2.1 billion friends! Eat your heart out Ashton. But are we so naïve to believe that Jesus would limit himself to only one social networking site?

Twitter
Tweets:
· TheTrueJC: What are the odds of someone already using “JesusChrist” as their twitter name?
· TheTrueJC: @SimonPeter Cast your nets, I will make you fishers of men.
· TheTrueJC: Getting ready to talk about the @prodigaljohn - er, Prodigal Son.
· TheTrueJC: I really hate it when people are selling idol nick-knacks in the temple. Someone should do something about it.
· TheTrueJC: I did something about it ;)
· TheTrueJC: What’s the deal with the sandals… I would kill for a pair of Nike high tops.
· TheTrueJC: Parable of the Prodigal Son http://tinyurl.com/yzsnwp5
· TheTrueJC: @12Apostles Break bread in remembrance of me. My body is given for you.
· TheTrueJC: @JudaofIscariot You better be buying something nice with those silver pieces!
· TheTrueJC: @SimonPeter 1…2…3…you just denied me 3 times… I hate to say I told you so, but I TOLD YOU SO!!!
· TheTrueJC: @PontiusPilate Barabbas … REALLY?!
· TheTrueJC: I always knew a cross would be heavy, but this is crazy ridiculous!
· TheTrueJC: @AlphaOmega It is finished.
· TheTrueJC: @Satan666 I’m back! #3dayslater
· TheTrueJC: Yeah, well I think @JesusNeedsNewPR needs new PR! ;)


All I have to say is that if Jesus was on Twitter I would follow Him. I can only make an educated guess at the only person He would follow, but I think it would probably be AlphaOmega(GOD).

MySpace
I’m gonna have to be completely honest with you guys/gals… I have a MySpace but I never use it. I haven’t been on it for probably over a year so anything that I try and recreate on this post is probably going to be completely fake and superficial and that’s not what I’m about.

The angle that I take Jesus using MySpace is for evangelism. Everyone knows that MySpace ain’t nothing but a big Booty Call website disguised at Social Networking. It’s where all the Judas’ and Jezebels hang out. It is a virtual “pool hall on the wrong side of the tracks”, but Jesus WOULD use it to further The Kingdom of God.
I just can’t help picturing Mary Magdalene messaging Jesus:

Hey cutie pie,

You don’t know me but I was hopping around from friend to friend and I came across your profile picture. Damn boy, you are sexy! I don’t think I should tell you this but facial hair really turns me on. There is just something different about you, you seem to be a man that has everything together and you’re so confident. We haven’t ever met but I can just tell what a powerful man you are. I would love to get to know you better, maybe on a deeper level? Hit me up some time.
<3 MM

Reply from Jesus to Mary Magdalene:

Beautiful child,

Funny thing is I do know you. You have been down a rough road and have made some bad decisions but I want to help you get your life straight. I think we should meet and I think I can get you to that deeper level. We should meet up in Galilee, I think there are a few things (7) that you need to get off your chest. Thanks for the compliments, you made me blush, but the important thing is getting your life back on track. Let’s draw a line in the sand.
Eternally,
JC


Would Jesus use Social Networking? What do you think? Would you update differently knowing that Jesus was using social networking?

If you want to start a new religion or system of beliefs or even change the world, there are a few things you’ll need:

1. A man.  If you are a man, problem solved.  If you are not a man, get one.
2. A woman.  If you are a woman, problem solved.  If not, get one.
3. People who follow you.  Preferably because of what it is you’re leading them towards and not just because they're stalkerish.
4. Pithy sayings.  Anything that can fit on a bumper sticker is preferable...makes it easier for memorizing.
5. Books, articles, etc. that will preserve what you think in written form so that people cannot take your words out of context and make you look like a fool.
6. Crowd appeal.  Good looks, healing abilities, or decent magic tricks will work.

Jesus had these things.  Well, all except number five.  Some think number two is iffy and to that I answer: Mary.  Peter, too, but he was a woman for different reasons (i.e. very emotional, was once called “Satan,” etc.).  But number five is for sure – Jesus, despite the fact that he never wrote a single thing down (except in dirt), completely changed the world.

Aside from that being completely awesome, it is also very unusual.  People just don’t do that.  So it begs the question of why Jesus chose that route.

Jesus Didn’t Know How to Spell

This is where everyone says, “Psht!  He was fully God.  God knows everything!”  But they forget that he was fully man, too.  Not that this makes much of a difference since he didn’t switch between these two realities at different times, but we think it a viable argument nonetheless if only because his Godness didn’t prevent him from sleeping or eating or growing a beard.  So maybe he just didn’t know how to spell.  But we do know he could read because he read out of the scroll.  We don’t know how he could do one without the other so we’re just going to leave that open-ended as one of the great mysteries of God right up there with whether God likes tacos.

Jesus Healed Paper Back Into Trees

Though we have no Biblical evidence of it, we think Jesus may not have written anything down because every time he touched a piece of paper he healed it and it became a tree.  As a kid, this was probably a cool trick that he used to freak out his teachers, but we suspect that in his adult years it was a source of great frustration.  Can you imagine trying to play that little football game when every time you touch the football it turns into a tree?  Actually, that sounds pretty awesome!  Jesus probably wasn’t frustrated at all.  He probably loved it.  We think this is where he got his, “…take the log out of your own eye,” teaching.

Jesus Was Left-Handed

I know what you’re thinking: there’s no way that someone as awesome as Jesus could have been left-handed.  Left-handed people are never awesome.  I know, I know - which is why when it comes to Jesus, we need to leave it open for consideration – he defied the laws of nature.  Nevertheless, even if Jesus were left handed and defied that law, writing with one’s left hand in Ancient Israel was very dishonoring.  Many a left-handed Jewish boy were subject to stonings back in the day.  So for Jesus to have written anything down may have gotten him killed.  Those last three sentences are complete and utter lies, but you never know.

Okay, so maybe it was none of those things.  Maybe it was something ridiculous like God wanting to partner with humanity and him trusting us enough to carry his message to others or that the best communicator of the Gospel is not the written word, but the change we are able to witness in the lives of each other.

Maybe, but we kind of doubt it.

What do you think?  Are there other reasons Jesus may not have written anything down?  If you were Jesus, what would your reason be for not writing anything down?


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