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Did you know that Leonard Cohen once said this:
"I'm very fond of Jesus Christ. He may be the most beautiful guy who ever walked the face of this earth. Any guy who said "Blessed are the poor. Blessed are the meek" has got to be a figure of unparalleled generosity and insight and madness... A man who declared himself to stand among the thieves, the prostitutes and the homeless. His position cannot be comprehended. It is an inhuman generosity. A generosity that would overthrow the world if it was embraced because nothing could weather that compassion. I'm not trying to alter the Jewish view of Jesus Christ. But to me, in spite of what I know about the history of legal Christianity, the figure of the man has touched me".
I can't berate him for not being a Christian as so many others seem inclined to do. I can only feel sad that it seems he never reached what he seemed to know was out there.
"I'm very fond of Jesus Christ. He may be the most beautiful guy who ever walked the face of this earth. Any guy who said "Blessed are the poor. Blessed are the meek" has got to be a figure of unparalleled generosity and insight and madness... A man who declared himself to stand among the thieves, the prostitutes and the homeless. His position cannot be comprehended. It is an inhuman generosity. A generosity that would overthrow the world if it was embraced because nothing could weather that compassion. I'm not trying to alter the Jewish view of Jesus Christ. But to me, in spite of what I know about the history of legal Christianity, the figure of the man has touched me".
I can't berate him for not being a Christian as so many others seem inclined to do. I can only feel sad that it seems he never reached what he seemed to know was out there.
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Spoken like a true __________________ ! (You fill in the blank.) 
He understood "religion" as he was taught.... just like almost every single one of us did. I suspect his not embracing Christianity was more the fault of the people around him who claimed to follow Jesus.
He understood "religion" as he was taught.... just like almost every single one of us did. I suspect his not embracing Christianity was more the fault of the people around him who claimed to follow Jesus.
It's because he was a Jew, they do not believe Jesus was the Messiah. I don't care if he was lukewarm about Jesus as a man. It's still blasphemy.
I do know his position and relationship with God tho. You said it right in your post: I'm not trying to alter the Jewish view of Jesus Christ.
Im not hating on the guy or saying hes a bad person but he rejects Jesus as the Son of God like most Jews. This isn't controversial, this is central to Jewish thinking.
Im not hating on the guy or saying hes a bad person but he rejects Jesus as the Son of God like most Jews. This isn't controversial, this is central to Jewish thinking.