(October 22, 2010 at 8:00 am)solja247 Wrote:Jesus didn't like tax collectors, said "go nowhere amongst the gentiles" (apparently they didn't deserve saving), taught a politically incorrect parable about samaritans where the graviman of the story was look "even a samaritan can be good...", as for prostitutes not sure of his position although if you beleive the RC ramblings that Mary Magdelene was one, Jesus of Nazereth seemed to rather like them to be fair..Quote:Maybe his parents and his family did a very good job in bringing him up. Maybe many of the people around him were not as bad as you think they were. Maybe the Bible is wrong in it's assessment.
Perhaps. But I dont like to speculate, the context of Jesus's time was very different. For example they hated tax collectors and prostitues, samaratians and gentiles. So where did this morality come from?

"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.