What’s so offensive?

I am amazed at the world we live in today. We have the ACLU trying to attack all things Christmas in any place they can.

May I make a prediction that sooner or later the ACLU will be coming after that Snowman or Santa in your yard? Really, don’t laugh just give them time and they will be. Their arguments that having a school Christmas play constitutes “the establishment of religion” already require a serious twisting of the Constitution. They won’t mind in due time stomping all over your Constitutional rights regarding free expression in your own yard.

So it begs the question, what exactly is so “offensive” to some about all things Christian or the Bible or even abstract references to “God”?

Did Jesus really have much to say that was offensive? Lets look at His message as it is recorded in Scripture shall we? Here is a list of some things that come to my mind:

- Do unto others as you would have done unto you
- Love your neighbor as yourself (scandal, what a hate monger indeed)
- Don’t steal
- Don’t lie
- Don’t sleep with the neighbor’s wife
- Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no (having some honor, that’s rare these days)

I could go on and on but what is exactly so “offensive” about the above list of things? Granted it challenges some at the ACLU and other Liberal wacko types who prefer their self-serving situational ethics but are the concepts really offensive. Maybe it is “offensive” because some feel a little convicted by the fact they are a sinner and they get hostile due to the reminder?

So what is really so offensive about Jesus and the message He had for us? My guess is that John 14:6 is where the “offense” comes in:

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (New King James Version)

People don’t like to hear the Word of God in general and specifically that Jesus is the only way. They like their sinful ways and their pride will not let them admit that they are not a “good person” which means they need a Savior. That is where the offense comes from and it causes some to attempt to remove all reference to God from our public square.

Some try to say Jesus was a “good teacher” or many Jewish friends try to say He “was a prophet but not the Messiah”

Maybe that makes them feel better, but they are wrong.

Jesus made it clear many places in Scripture that He indeed was the “I am”, God’s only Son, the Messiah and indeed the only way.

If Jesus were not the Messiah, to make such claims He would have to have been either a liar or stark raving mad.

That is the problem with the arguments about “a good teacher” or “Jesus was a prophet”. You cannot be a prophet or a good teacher and a liar. Heck to tell a “fishing story” of that size you wouldn’t even be able to consider yourself a moral person.

Obviously you also cannot be crazy as a loon and a prophet or a good teacher.

So we have a problem don’t we?

Either Jesus is what He claimed, the Messiah and the only way to see Heaven when we die or He was lying or He was completely off His rocker.

You cannot be a liar and a “prophet”. You cannot be a completely delusional lunatic and have any credibility that would make one a good teacher or a prophet.

One must reach a conclusion here as to who Jesus is.

He either is a liar, a lunatic or exactly who He claimed to be – Lord.

If Jesus is Lord and He is indeed Lord, you can see where at times when some will not put their pride aside and admit they are a sinner in need of Salvation it just might be a bit “offensive”.