Does Jesus Fail the “Nice Guy” Test?

The Cultural vs the Biblical Jesus

kit_carmelite
Mustard Seed Sentinel
10 min readApr 15, 2024

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Text at top: “What was Jesus REALLY like? — Between the left and the right image is the word “OR”. — Left image: Jesus smiling and text below it says “ALWAYS this…” — Right image: Frowning emoji and text below it says “sometimes this?”
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People who’ve never read the gospel accounts picture Jesus as always being “nice”. Such a person doesn’t judge or confront others. Instead, he’s always polite, kind, pleasant and agreeable. A “nice person doesn’t deliberately ignore and then insult someone who’s asking for help and doesn’t express irritation or impatience. A “nice” person…

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kit_carmelite
Mustard Seed Sentinel

Married 25 years. Retired SAS programmer from Statistics Canada. Member of Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites since 2008. Love chess..