Gnashing of Teeth

It seems to me that people have a strangely warped view of Christianity, in relation to what is actually in the bible. It also seems like if you say you believe in Jesus and Christianity, you have to acknowledge that you do so blindly, cause otherwise you would have to contend with some both silly and difficult questions. Questions I think, in the end, will prove that you still have to believe despite the facts.

We can probably all agree that in the time of early life, where microbes and amoebae roamed the earth, no one believing in, or knew about Christianity. Animals evelove, then men (in gods own image). And as man evolve, God stays silent. He does not send angels to teach his will to the sapiens or neanderthals, nor to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India or China. Not to the Māori nor to the Inuits. He waited? For his choosen people, the jew. Those he spoke to.

At some point then Jesus is born, grows up, and starts preaching the values of God, from an intimate knowledge of Gods will. If he did not just make it up (or was indeed god himself), then he was either born with the wisdom or he somehow communes with God? So, did baby Jesus know about forgiveness and sin? What about teenage Jesus? If Jesus is God, then that at least solves that problem. Toddler Jesus ate his broccoli without a fuss, and turned the other cheek when the other kids in the kindergarten kicked his sandcastle. Did tween Jesus know he was the messiah and that he could perform miracles? Must have required nothing less than divine will not to create candy from rocks! Silly? Maybe.

Then you have to content with the fact of angels and miracles. If you think Jesus was actually born from a virgin, then I guess you are probably all in. But otherwise, what about the crazy stories of the old testament? Stories Jesus himself recounts as true. You might say that those stories are allegorical. That the genocide of Amalek is a metaphor. But you then kind of have to say that either all of it is, or you have to pick what is probably fiction and what is real? Do you think the old testament stories are false, but that angels are real as they are also in the new testament? That maybe some of the old testament stories are real, but other are not? That jesus did turn water to wine, but that it is probably unrealistic that Noah managed to get his hands on a pair of wombats?

If Jesus did resurrect from the dead, and did perform miracles, why would he make up those other stories? He also kind of have to have thought that the jews in general somehow had it wrong, or we wouldn't have both jews and christians today? So why did he use their stories? If we believe that God and his angels can actually talk to people, why did the jews then have it wrong in the first place? Ah, but maybe that part is false, and God can only talk through Jesus? But why does Jesus himself then teach otherwise?

Do you believe heaven actually has an army of angels, that could be used to attack people whom god dislikes? Sounds crazy, but Jesus actually says he could make God send 12 legions of angels to attack those who come for him. Makes heaven sound like a pretty crazy place, rather than your average baby-angel-sitting-on-a-cloud-playing-the-harp version.

So, ill leave you with this: "So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from amongst the righteous, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth" Quote, Jesus.