….can speak your language and wants to hang out with you. According to the Bible, what is he like?
A factual question of course, but religion so GD.
He’d be ugly, I read. And for a god, extraordinarily humble, like the most humble. He was an organizer certainly so he’d have thoughts on interpersonal dynamics. He’d had some opinions about Philistine carpentry or some such. Bible doesn’t have loads of jokes so I don’t think he’d work on his tight five for the next Netflix special.
This is meant to be funny, but also serious. I want to know what he’d be like as a person, and considering almost an entire book is about him this should be easy.
If you want the bonus points for the epic mic drop you’ll need to cite chapter and verse tho.
He’d know some neat magic tricks. He’d go on and on about scriptures. He’d have a store of simple metaphorical stories to illustrate his opinions. He probably wants to be the center of attention, but is empathetic.
First off, I’d tell him that I don’t have any wine, but ask him if he’d like a glass of water.
Then I’d ask him what he thinks of the current state of the world, especially what some people are doing in his name. I think it would also be interesting to see if he has any suggestions on how things could be improved.
Not necessarily ugly, but not particularly handsome.
Isaiah 53:2
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
Sure, that’s what I want to do too. But that is US. The question before you is what is HE like. You will get a very different answer about the current state of our world if you asked Putin as opposed to Andrew Dice Clay.
Well, as for appearance, he looked average. Very average. We know this because of the fact that the soldiers needed Judas to point out which one was Jesus at the garden of Gethsemane, and, after Jesus had banished demons into pigs which stampeded off the cliff, the crowd grew angry at him, and Jesus basically just turned around and joined the crowd, saying “Where’d he go?” and nobody found him then. He looked average.
He was criticized by the powers that be for drinking and eating with sinners, and had no trouble gathering a crowd, so we can assume he was friendly, charismatic and had a good speaking voice.
First thing I thought about. I would invite him to sit down on my couch and have a nice chat, but ask him to provide the wine (maybe something to bite, bread and fish, too).
Don’t be so sure—I think you’re underestimating his sense of humor (maybe because you’ve only seen his material written down and aren’t familiar with the delivery). There’s the one about feeding pearls to pigs, and the one about trying to fit a camel through the eye of a needle, and the one about trying to help a friend get a speck out of his eye while you’ve got a great big log in your own…
Well, he was a charismatic cult leader, so I’d think personality-wise a lot like Charles Manson, Marshall Applewhite, or David Koresh. He didn’t seem to be the type in it to get the girls, though. In fact, he was pretty into building an inner-circle of guys…
He’d certainly be into sociological prank humor and culture jamming. He might do a collaboration with The Yes Men or the Guerrilla Girls, and I’m guessing he’d be a fan of Pussy Riot.
I hope everyone realizes that we are discussing here what ancient scribes wrote about the man, the legend, and the phenomena, modified by centuries of speculation and modern interpretation of ancient writings, heavily tempered by religious biases of the faithful. Perhaps we are looking primarily at the minds of the scribes; their hopes, fears, and the social mores which they knew and hoped for.
“Look. You’ve got it all wrong. You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody! You’ve got to think for yourselves. You’re all individuals!”
Except for that one Mary chick, yanno? Seems like dudes like that always have that one chick named “Mary” or some variation of “Betty” or “Veronica”, yanno?
I dunno, going by what is written about him, he is going to be very charismatic and also manipulative, I think. He might be somewhat militant also, not afraid to publicly riot if needed, turn over a few tables, whip some butt in the temple as it were.
I imagine he’d be kind, but I’ll bet he’d have some pointed questions for me about my level of comfort versus that of the homeless people who hang out in the grocery store parking lot not a mile away.