Jesus should have been a king.

[Chad32]

Despite being the oldest and largest christian denomination, the catholics don't quite seem to remember the parts where Jesus said to give away all your belongings, because it's nigh impossible for a rich man to get into heaven.

What if a man had nothing but the cloths on his back, is he to give them up so he can become a Christian.

GC

If someone asks for your shirt, you're expected to give it to them.

Of course the real underlying meaning of all this is because when Jesus said things were going to end soon, he meant real soon. In the next fifty years or so.

[RobbyPants]

If he really wanted to make the world a better place, and spread his beliefs, then being in a position of power would be the most ideal way to do it. It seems like the only point in him being born in a feeding trough and all that was to show how humble he was. except then his followers equate him to Yahweh, who was anything but humble.

How would being a king have not helped immensely? Why wasn't he born in a position where he could actually enact laws, instead of just preach the word?

I'd like to know the christian's thought to this. Try not to fall back on "god works in mysterious ways". That doesn't really explain anything.

Sorry, but the answer is mysterious ways.

You could similarly ask why if Jesus was supposed to change things and usher in the New Covenant that he only appeared to a small area on the globe for a short period of time, and why he didn't appear all over the place. There are two answers for this:

• Mysterious ways.
  
• Jesus and the previous Jewish traditions were only held by a small percentage of the world's population isolated to one general region, so of course all the stories happen there because they were spawned there.
  

[Godscreated]

What if a man had nothing but the cloths on his back, is he to give them up so he can become a Christian.

GC

If someone asks for your shirt, you're expected to give it to them.

Of course the real underlying meaning of all this is because when Jesus said things were going to end soon, he meant real soon. In the next fifty years or so.

Not so, only in your uninformed imagination.

GC

[Rampant.A.I.]

If someone asks for your shirt, you're expected to give it to them.

Of course the real underlying meaning of all this is because when Jesus said things were going to end soon, he meant real soon. In the next fifty years or so.

Not so, only in your uninformed imagination.

GC

Clearly, your imagination is more thoroughly developed.

[Minimalist]

G-C uncritically believes everything some scumbag preacher tells him.

[Chad32]

If someone asks for your shirt, you're expected to give it to them.

Of course the real underlying meaning of all this is because when Jesus said things were going to end soon, he meant real soon. In the next fifty years or so.

Not so, only in your uninformed imagination.

GC

He told the people he was with that some of them wouldn't taste death until it was all over. This, combined with the tendency to tell people to give away all their belongings and not worry about the future. How else would you interpret it?

[Minimalist]

Oh, that's one of the parts that the godboy didn't mean literally. You see, G-C intrinsically knows which is literal and which is figurative because he as a special book that he consults.

It's located in his rectum.

[Ksa]

I buy amphetamines at the local pharmacy, pure compound made by Teva pharma. It's called living in Canada.

Oh that sounds horrible... I could help you out if just tell me what you'll do for me.

"Helping" me would be topping from the bottom...

[Chad32]

Oh, that's one of the parts that the godboy didn't mean literally. You see, G-C intrinsically knows which is literal and which is figurative because he as a special book that he consults.

It's located in his rectum.

Because obviously if it didn't happen that way, he didn't mean it that way. Otherwise he would have been wrong about something, and we all know that would never happen.

[Minimalist]

Exactly.