Jesus was crucified, which is much much worse than being put to jail. He was a criminal, one of the reasons was he made the people of the old school like a total joke. He completely looked down on the old justice such as 'an eye for an eye', which has been around for so long to keep the justice and the law. Instead, he came up with 'give your right cheek when someone slapped your left cheek'. Which is much worse than an 'eye for an eye' in substantial degree.
Why 'give your right cheek when someone slapped your left cheek' is much worse.
When you are being robbed and your house almost totally eradicated, it would be a total disaster to, in addition, give your wife and daughters to the robbers to become prostitutes and your sons to become slaves, willingly and helpfully. If someone is about the slap your left cheek, your response would be to avoid, or to prevent the slapping to happen at all, in the first place. This could be done by not doing anything that offend other people, by doing charity in most of your days, or for a robbery, by installing security in your house. If your left cheek is given willingly, or if your house is surrendered willingly, there will be a lot more slappers and a lot more robbers and injustice will be everywhere. At least 'an eye for an eye' make people afraid of doing injustice and people get what they deserve, instead of total chaos.
A lot of what Jesus taught us, although he was older than 30 years old, were not special and his intelligence not that great to reside in our thoughts for significant amount of time. Most of the teachings have been repeated again and again in the church, however, everytime we hear it, we always doubt the effectiveness and the necessity of the teachings. This is different from the phrases and words that come from other great thinkers, visionaries, leaders, etc such as Nietzsche and Confucius, from where we know instantly that those are deep thoughts from great people.
Jesus lived only for 3 years since his ministry started, which means he died when he was only 33 years old. That is a very short period, and in my opinion, it didn't get very far, as I mentioned above. In fact, his ministry, which is against so many people from the old school, costed him his life, very quickly. And worse than, for example, Hitler who was able to get his country moving to do substantially much greater in degree. Hitler was able to live much longer, despite by doing much greater damage, and getting much more hatred from people all around the world.
Because of these, I am against the believe strongly that Jesus was the Son of God. Also when he can't even save his own life during his ministry, how can he save the whole world with these, and only by believe, not by a more balanced effort by using his skills?
To believe that Jesus is the Son of God, without anything that support that believe, and call it faith, which is something you cannot see. And depend on that something that we cannot see, greatly. I think that is a bit much. In the real world, this would cause disasters. This would result in failed products, buildings, great structures and most of other things also.
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