Superbowl-- 'He Gets Us' ad campaign- What do you think?

Zechariah 2:10-11
"Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,"
says the LORD.
"Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you."

He became flesh and pitched His tent among us

@ThereRoseaLamb Please learn to use the quote feature properly so that what you are posting doesn't get falsely attributed to others as above.

That's what the ad was about.... -that's who said something about hating people. Jesus. And he was similarly accused of dividing.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they? And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they? So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

I am well aware of how to use the features here, thank you. It was edited, as you will notice, I deleted the offending end quote but it continued to show.


Butterfly Jones said "Was he a socialist too?" post #57


You quoted her with "He loved those you hate." #58


I know what the Bible says about hate. I attended Sunday school.

You should demand your tuition money back as a full refund. It didn't take.

But I'm finished here.... Have a nice day!

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Again here is the comment you made to Butterfly Jones. It had nothing to do with the ad.

You could learn some world history too.

Everyone can - read the Bible. For those that can't or won't, they can watch the superbowl on tv lol.

Just spray paint in big letters on the baseball field JESUS SAVES, have Jesus mascots, give out loaves and fishes instead of corndogs, and have a J-e-s-u-s cheerleading team.
You can also sing 'Jesus what a wonderful name' in the superbowl. There can be Team Jesus vs Team Pharisees on the field. That would be er...interesting to watch.

Jes' US!

Superbaal...

God created all things. He has dominion.

No. That's a human office.

That's Socialism?

Loves those we hate? When they die unredeemed he judges them to spend eternity in Hell.

Psalms 10:16
The LORD is King for ever and ever
the nations will perish from His land

"dominion" is the province of a king.
a monarch.

the "kingdom" of God is decidedly not a democracy.
He is not 'elected'

and none of this changes the fact He dwells in heaven, but immigrated to earth to dwell among us - where He was hated, unjustly accused, rejected, ignored and slandered because He was not of this world.

Jesus was God. God created the heavens and the earth. Human limits and titles do not confine his sovereignty. Jesus (God) could never be an immigrant when all that exists is of and by him.


Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began.

Colossians 1:19 For in him (Jesus) all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.

Colossians 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Hey posthuman, hope you're doing well.

Interesting post, and I realize these commercials have everyone thinking, as it's not entirely clear where they're all coming from.
Let me add my quick 2 cents.

Immigration:
Whatever we think of immigration, I'm not sure that's how I'd label the work of Christ.
If we're going to talk about his preincarnate existence, if that's going to be our perspective, then we can hardly call his coming to earth an "immigration"... since he owned the place.
I don't know about you... but I've never immigrated to a place I already owned.

Modern Politics & Ancient History:
Personally, I have a feeling we might be better off just keeping modern political words, with their peculiar modern political baggage, out of the gospel narrative.
The way we parse words, culture, and politics, in 2023, is just nothing like the 1st century.
- I think this organization, HeGetsUs, is intentionally inverting their hermeneutic methods, to sort of do some eisegesis, and inject modern cultural narratives into the scripture. And I think we can find this hermeneutic failure mentioned right on their website.


God Bless.

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Jesus was a Judaean born in Bethlehem though people didnt recongnise him as Judean since he lived in Nazareth Galilee (Mary's hometown) . His family fled to Egypt to escape persecution under King Herod. At the time Judaea was a far flung province occupied by the Roman Empire.

When he entered Jerusalem because of his claim to the throne (King of the Jews) or King or Israel people didnt really reconginse him as such cos 'nothing good came out of Nazareth' and he wasnt highly educated or religious like th Pharisees or Saducees who stuck with their rigid Jewish customs.

However he was Jewish, he was circumcised on the 8th day and presented to the temple at Jerualem, Mary had to sacrifice two turtledoves because they were too poor to afford the ritual offering which was a lamb.

Correct me if Im wrong about this but Jesus was refugee when he was a child and also in those days people migrated for work etc and EVERYONE that was Jewish made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem every year for the passover. So migration wasnt foreign to the Hebrews they were used to things like famines etc where they had to leave Israel and go live in Egypt or the mediterranean which a lot of Jews did, they were also exiled and had to live in Babylon.

When americans talk about superbowl I just have this picture in my head of a big bowl....of noodles.


or ten pin bowling



Im obviously not a sports tv watcher. lol