What did Jesus think about People?

[voiceofsolar]

I love John 2:25 and decided to write a blog post about it over on steemit. I thought I'd share it with a community who may appreciate it. Let me know what you think:

https://steemit.com/spirituality/@v...s-believe-about-people-john-2-25-holds-a-clue

 

[Magenta]

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[Lucy-Pevensie]

John 2:25

Great scripture verse! Thank you for highlighting it.

 

[stillness]

This is about the people desiring Jesus as King to help them build their kingdom, not God's kingdom. This was the error of the religious leaders, misleading the people. Jesus knew the Love of God was not in their hearts.

 

[Magenta]

... it is the last link in the Settings modules, on the far right hand side of the page.

Oops, I should have said, left hand side of the page

 

[posthuman]

I love John 2:25 and decided to write a blog post about it over on steemit. I thought I'd share it with a community who may appreciate it. Let me know what you think:

https://steemit.com/spirituality/@v...s-believe-about-people-john-2-25-holds-a-clue

from the blog:

Jesus already knew everyone was good.

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If Jesus didn't believe people were good and deserving of love, regardless of what they could contribute (like the sick and poor), why did he teach his followers to live a life succinctly describable as 'being of loving service to others?'

If Jesus didn't believe people were good, how could he have asked his followers to love our enemies so that we may be children of God?

It makes sense only if he believed your enemy is a good person and the perception of that good person as an enemy is your personal creation.
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from Jesus:

No one is good except God alone.​

 

[posthuman]

OP seems to presume it is only possible to love 'good people'



hmm. i see some potential problems there.

 

[Magenta]

OP seems to presume it is only possible to love 'good people'

hmm. i see some potential problems there.

Shades of the thread on unconditional love

 

[Hizikyah]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]John/Yahanan 10:27-30, "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; neither will any man snatch them out of My hand. My Father, Who gave them to Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand: I and My Father are in accord."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]John/Yahanan 17:9, "I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Mat 7:6, “Do not give what is set-apart to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the pigs, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.”[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Matthew 9:12-13, “And [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהושע [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]hearing this, said to them, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering.’ (Hos 6:6) For I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.”[/FONT]

 

[posthuman]

Shades of the thread on unconditional love

what a nice couple of words

[SUB]♪ [/SUB]unconditional love [SUP]♫

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[video=youtube;5RvWQ6hasUQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RvWQ6hasUQ[/video]

 

[posthuman]

John/Yahanan 10:27-30, "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; neither will any man snatch them out of My hand. My Father, Who gave them to Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand: I and My Father are in accord."


John/Yahanan 17:9, "I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours."


Mat 7:6, “Do not give what is set-apart to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the pigs, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.”


Matthew 9:12-13, “And יהושע hearing this, said to them, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering.’ (Hos 6:6) For I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.”

When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’
(Ezekiel 16:6)

For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
(Isaiah 53:2)​

 

[Magenta]

... For I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.

As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one... "

 

[Hizikyah]

When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’
(Ezekiel 16:6)

For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
(Isaiah 53:2)​

You get it. I see you get it. praiseYah and may Yah strengthen you!

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Deuteronomy “For you are a set-apart people to [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]your Strength, and [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Isaiah 11:1-10, “And a Twig shall come forth from the stump of Yishai, and a Branch from his roots shall be fruitful. The Spirit of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]shall rest upon Him – the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif], and shall make Him breathe in the fear of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears. But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with straightness for the meek ones of the earth, and shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth (Rev 19:15, Hebrews 4:12-13), and slay the wrong with the breath of His lips. And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins, and trustworthiness the girdle of His waist. And a wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and a leopard lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child leads them. And cow and bear shall feed, their young ones lie down together, and a lion eat straw like an ox. And the nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the adder’s den. They do no evil nor destroy in all My set-apart mountain, for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]as the waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall be a Root of Yishai, standing as a banner to the people. Unto Him the nations shall seek, and His rest shall be esteem.”[/FONT][/FONT]

 

[posthuman]

The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
(Psalm 94:11)​

 

[Hizikyah]

As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one... "

I think this is motivation unto self reflection to do His will, for even though I may not be perfect I want to do His will. Or we could look at it like none are righteous so why even try. I want to do His will, no matter if I fall 99 times, I want to get up 100 times.

Matthew 12:50, “For whoever does the desire of My Father who is in the heavens is My brother and sister and mother.”

 

[Hizikyah]

The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
(Psalm 94:11)​

Therefore:

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Psalm 119:133, "Establish my footsteps by Your word, And let no wickedness have rule over me."[/FONT]

 

[posthuman]

Judah offered himself in exchange for Benjamin, with love for his father

Genesis 44:32-34
For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.' Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers. For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father."​

 

[Hizikyah]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]John 10:17, “Because of this the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, in order to receive it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it again. This command I have received from My Father.”[/FONT]

 

[JaumeJ]

You question is a hard one. Let's see.......He loves all people.

Now He knows the hearts of all man so it gives Him pain, to this day I believe.

 

[Zmouth]

I love John 2:25 and decided to write a blog post about it over on steemit. I thought I'd share it with a community who may appreciate it. Let me know what you think:

Great scripture to share yet it needed verse 24 to qualify why he needed not that any should testify of man. Seeing that he didn't need to hear them tell him that man taught them how to read since he already knew that no man could teach themself how to read the written word.

So being a man also, he didn't commit himself to them because he was taught how to read also, but he was taught not by man but by the Father of all men. And if they didn't believe it then do you think they will believe it now?

And in such, the Gospel was written because men know not the truth, but because men know the truth and no lie is of the truth. (See John 8:28)

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